Some Chase dreams!!! Guess What I chase The most ??? is Thayir Sadam 😀
One of my all-time favourites from childhood.
Except chapathi, I hated every other tiffin item with a passion strong enough to scare even my mom.
In fact, there was a full-time deal running in our home always:-
My tiffin → My sister
Her curd rice → Me
A perfectly balanced deal ( my mom doesn't know)
If someone opened the fridge and there was curd rice inside, I’d appear out of nowhere like a superhero whose only power is smelling thayir sadam from 2 km away and don’t get me started on vadu maangai.,that combination is so good it should be declared a national treasure. Add a little mustard and chilli tempering, and I’ll eat like its a divine blessing.
Today I found myself thinking about those old family afternoons when we’d all gather in a big circle to mix rice. It always felt like a community event,everyone waiting patiently while my mother or grandmother sat in the centre like the official Rice Distributor of the Household.
No matter how old I got, I’d still wait for my turn with the same excitement, especially if curd rice and vathakulambu were involved.There was something magical about that combination. I used to “decorate” my curd rice with vathakulambu ,honestly, nothing else has ever matched that taste. Even if the rice was a day old, the fresh curd made up for it so well that the bowl practically tasted like nostalgia with extra seasoning.
I remembered another day-more recent-when I went to Saravana Bhavan with my son. We arrived embarrassingly late for lunch, the kind of late where the waiter looks at you with sympathy. He informed us that only curd rice was available, and instead of disappointment, I felt a strange surge of happiness. Of all things, curd rice was waiting for me.
It came with freshly made nellikai pickle-bright, tangy, delicious. I think I ate it with the level of enthusiasm usually reserved for festival feasts. My son probably thought I had lost my mind over a bowl of rice, but he’ll understand someday. These small, simple foods carry decades of comfort.
Preparing curd is also equally important as that is the key for its taste.
I have tried eating my favourite curd rice with various combinations like mor milagai, sundai vathal, manathakkali vathal, kothavarangai vathal, bitter guard vathal, sun dried narthangai vathal.
However my DH too loves to eat pazhaya sadam with small Onion says by "eating curd rice" your stomach will always bless you....🙌
Recently addicted to eat along with nartha leaves powder( infact in my blog I have Receipe for it). Also I have tried with idly podi / coconut podi too......
In recent years, bahalabadh / curd rice has returned to our cultural tables, enriched by the flavors of pomegranate and grapes.
Idk why, but this tiny thing has a big chunk of my heart 😂.
What to do?
I am a certified, lifetime member of the Thayir Sadam Pattarai Association. 😎
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