Sour Tangerines! used as a marinade salad cordial as well for Bros Tomato Rasam! Traditional M

It is astonishing to note that there are most fruit trees still standing in our ancestral land for many years. All these trees were planted very long ago and if my Grandmothers ancestral home had been there I am sure it would have been more than 100 years old by now. I still remember there were so many of trees laden with variety of fruits such as Lovi Governors plum Namu namu Sweet guavava Avocado Tamarind Java apple Mango Rambutan Mora Java plum Pomegranate Durian Wood apple Bael fruit Sweet orange and Sapodilla. The Sour Tangerine tree is still standing tall as one of the trees that one can see among the other trees in the ancestral house garden. During the season the Sour Tangerine tree become so heavy with fruits and they are very sour too. Because of the sourness the tree was always heavy with fruits without no one is picking them. But these Sour Tangerine wedges can be a mouth watering delicacy when mixed as a salad with salt chilli and pepper. On his way home from his night shift Uncle Siriwardena had bought us some fresh cuttlefish from Negombo. Without using the traditional marinade with lime juice together with ground mustard seeds with vinegar and cumin seeds this time I marinate the cuttlefish with Sour Tangerine juice instead. The real taste of this yummy dish that will tingles your taste buds only when you eat them individually even though the cuttlefish dish was cooked with onion and capsicum cut into rings as well. I made rice porridge in the morning for Grandmother as she was complaining of a stomach upset since last night. I made the cuttlefish curry mainly because uncle Siriwardena brought them early in the morning but not to give them to Grandmother for lunch because of her stomach upset. I was planning to make a Sri Lankan Rasam Thambum hodi for Grandmother as its an exceptionally good traditional homemade treatment for stomach upsets as well an appetite booster. We only sought the help of a traditional Ayurvedic physician only when one gets sick with a fall and a physical fracture or in a case of a poisonous snake bite. Since the ancient era people used to make remedies only using the ingredients that one finds in the kitchen and had been used by our ancestors for generations for headaches stomach upsets cough fever and common colds as well. Apart from the most essential condiments in any kitchen a piece of indian turmericweniwal and dried pol pala are so common too. You can say that our kitchen is our medicinal chamber too. So since Brother agreed to make his famous Rasam to Grandmother I didnt make the thambu hodi for her! The Rasam is also very similar to the thambum hodda and is been used by so many people to find relief from stomach upsets loss of appetite. Our Grandmother was the one with the stomach upset but our Brother was the one who was drinking a huge cup full of Rasam at the end. Out of curiosity I asked why he was also drinking a cup of Rasam and he gave me a very cheeky answer saying that he was also having a loss of appetite from few days. Every fruit season of Sour Tangerine I used to make cordial from them. This time also I made 2 bottles of cordial out of them. Unlike the cordial that I make out of the other fruits by using a heating process same as other sour frut cordials Tangerine cordial is also cannot be kept for more than 4-5 days as the sour Tangerine cordial is also not going through a heating process. Due to this reason I decided to make drinks then and there. I made the drink out of the cordial and was looking for my Brother to give him a glass but I was in for a surprise when I saw him so busy eating the cuttlefish dish. Straight away I asked him how come he was eating cuttlefish with having a loss of appetite and then he told me that he was trying it out to see whether he has got back the appetite for eating since he drank his special Rasam. Couldnt help laughing alone to hear his cheeky little lies so I also gave him the drink to check whether he got his drinking appetite back as well! Love you All! Nadee All rights reserved Sour Tangerines! used as a marinade salad cordial as well for Bros Tomato Rasam! 乡村烹饪 cuisine de village गव क खन बनन cucina del villaggio طبخ القرية Dorfkochen 村の料理 dorp koken 마을 요리 pagluluto ng nayon деревенская кухня cozinha da vila ഗരമണ പചക cocina del pueblo গরম রনন vesnické vaření landsby madlavning ចមអនអហរតមភម kylän ruoanlaitto गउ खन पकउन masakan desa கரம சமயல masakan kampung หมบานทำอาหาร gotowanie na wsi köy pişirme làng nấu ăn ရခကပတ μαγειρική στο χωριό villa coctione Music - Traditional Me My life journey web - FACEBOOK : Inspired by 李子柒 Liziqi and Dianxi Xiaoge villagecooking srilankanfood traditionalme village villagelife villagefood nadee countryfood dessert srilankancooking,

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