Family Events nkoka on 08 Oct 2008 10:28 am
Durgashtami ‘08
As like every year this year we cooked food for 60-70 people at the temple for Durgashtami. We made spinach+dosakai+tomato pappu, Kotthimeera, tomato and peanut pachhadi, chamadumpa and kanda deep fry, Dappalam or mukkala pulusu with mudda pappu and last but not least majjiga.
DP bought groceries around 2pm and was on conf call until 4pm 
. I started cooking dal,chutney, boiled chamdupa at home and then reached temple around 6pm. Rukku picked up Suhani and got her to temple directly, which helped us a lot. DP then fried the roots and made mukkalu pulusu.Shivram garu was a great help.
Mukkala pulusu turned out very good - Recipe is here- http://veggiecookbook.wordpress.com/2006/11/17/mukkala-pulusu/ .
For yagnam in this year in May’08, we made upma, idli, vada, coconut chutney, daddojanam and payasam for around 150 people.
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on 08 Oct 2008 at 11:14 am 1.Shivapriya said …
Hi Neelima,
Happy Dussara to you and your family, I’m really glad you all liked Mukkala pulusu. Thanks for dropping by and adding my recipe link. Things are keeping me really busy so i’m not able to update my blog.
BTW Neelima happens to be one of my very close friends name, they moved back to HYD, couple of yrs back and even she has 2 daughters (Stuti & Sloka). We call her Neelu with love.
Thanks again and Happy Festival.
SP
on 08 Oct 2008 at 2:36 pm 2.Sheela said …
Hi Neelima,
. Glad to hear that you are still continuing the “cooking for kotimandi” tradition at the temple. Please stop by Austin atleast when you visit TX….say hi to DP…talk to you later.. I miss Memphis..bye
First of all I am sorry I could not meet you in Houston. What was I thinking when i told myself that I will settle that issue and comeback and talk to you. Actually the security guy was not allowing suhas inside.. so I was so nevous as Srini went to park the car,it all happened in just few minutes and I came back for you guys but you were already gone by then, and ofcourse there was no way I could search for you in over 10 thousand people, only way was to go on stage with Abhishek