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July 13, 2007 | 23 Comments
ASIATIC LILIES
DAYLILIES
A request from Krishnammal - a Gandhian who has toiled all her life to empower rural women in Tamil Nadu.
The monsoon has arrived, but there are many farmers who don’t have the means to buy seeds to sow their land. A small donation – just 500 Rupees, will benefit a whole family. 5000 Rupees will benefit 10 families. Thirteen dollars, to change the lives in a family forever.
Ammani at Filthy, Funny, Flawed Gorgeous (she also owns the food blog Chai Pani) explains Krishnammals’ life and mission here. These women farmers in Tamil Nadu need help, and they need it NOW to become self-sufficient for the rest of their lives.
ALL THE DETAILS HERE.
If you wish to donate, and have a rupee account, do try and send your donation in rupees, so that they don’t lose any money in the foreign exchange conversion process.
On our part, we will post something we never planned to post before. We will post five pictures of recipes we never ended up putting on the site for various reasons. It’s the Jugalbandi Hall of Shame of pictures and posts that never made it. Now we’ll post them and tell you why.
As promised:
Jugalbandi Hall of Shame #1
This is Okra Kichadi (or Pachadi as we say in northern Kerala). Very yummy. For the recipe and what it ought to look like, go to Indian Food Rocks. We didn’t post it ‘cos the pic is so ghastly.
Please think about how you can change a whole family’s life somewhere with a simple deed.
Filed Under: asiatic-lilies, daylilies, GARDENING, lilies, Photo Essays
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23 Comments
WOW!!!!!! Beautiful pictures that are so splendid,can’t take my eyes off.Thanks for sharing these lovely Pictures:)
happy b’day to jai from me
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You guys are way too hard on yourselves. That okra kichadi looks yummy to me!
I remember an email conversation with Ammini where she explained that the dish is called kichadi if the veggie is pan-fried and pachadi, if it is not. Then again, a Keralite friend of mine called it pachadi instead of kichadi. You Keralites eat too much coconut and have far too many delicious curries draped in coconut oil leading to all this confusion. Tch! Can you imagine how hard it is for non-Keralites to keep up? And I have to physically untie my tongue from the knots it gets into trying to pronounce the names of all those dishes.
Oh! And, happy birthday to Jai! And a belated one to Bee!
the flowers are gorgeous Bee. I just keep looking at it. The okra pachadi was our reguar side dish before. Thanks for reminding me. Viji
Happy B’day, Jai
and folks, if the pictures on that picture qualifies for hall of shame, my entire blog should be leader in that category! and still, shamelessly, i go on
btw, those lillies are very pretty
have a good one,
musical.
Beautiful flowers Bee! Made my day! Lovvvvvvvvve pachadi! Happy bday Jai!
Happy B’day Jai
The Lillies are tooo prettty, and the okra dish picture is looking awesome and do not deserve Hall of shame.Sad to read about the farmers in TN.I will try and help out.
That was such a sweet animation! Happy birthday Jai!
Bee, he made a cake for you…. aren’t you making anything for him?
Happy birthday Jai! Lovely pix!
so cute
happy b’day to jai!
Happy B’day Jai!
Happy B’day Young Man
Most of the time I come here to see your pictures…especially the ones from your garden/backyard…
And the Hall of shame pic, it’s not ghastly for sure …. but, to my eyes, I felt that bowl and the background does not gel with the texture and hue of the dish!
Shn
Happy B’day Jai!
Lovely pictures as always…and such pretty flowers!! I love lilies….
Bee, the b’day video is adorable…
Happy B’Day Jai. That pacchadi should have tasted right. Looks like you have added cold curd to hot okra!
Happy Birthday Jai!
Hey Happy Birthday Jai, Beautiful pic of lillies
Happy Birthday Jai… so, you didn’t get a homemade cake?
ya man, that pachadi is hardly ghastly, looks fine to me… like musy was saying… compared to that my pics would make my whole blog shameful… u guys really are hard on your self…. if u had a which-pic-of-yurs-is-best thing, i wouldnt be able to choose…
happy birthday jay!!
Thank you all for the wishes and kind words. this is the most number of folks I’ve heard from, in couple decades now! regardless of how the rest of 2007 turns out – it will still be remembered as the “year of the blog” –jai
Happy birthday jai.. tho a bit late.:)
Many more happy returns of the day Jai! bit late! Wonderful pics of lillies…and the okra dish is lovely. You guys were rather modest I should say
cut the veg thin for making pachdi. So it fries easily.