I still remember when I was little, I was trying to split the mung beans (green gram) by putting them in the grinding stone, and my mother stopped me and told me that was not the way to split them but to crush them and if I need to split them I may do it with a glass bottle. According to her, this exerts less pressure on the mung beans and splits them properly, whereas the grinding stone crushes them excessively. That's the day I realized that the traditional methods are traditional because they work well and every technique has a good reason. I also remember how delicious my mother's split that day was.
If my brother has rice with devilled prawns, green onion salad, and split mung bean curry, he cleans his plate out, every single time because the combination is so delicious. Today was a that kind of a day!
I only realized that the winnowing fan I use has a hole in it and become old after I started using it to clean the splitted mung beans, and I remembered we bought a new winnowing fan last week from the village market. Since there was bael fruit on the tree, I decided to apply some to the new winnowing fan as applying bael and letting it dry out in the sun seals the winnowing fan out and takes care of any holes in it. I may have to do some patches in the old one too.
So, I went with my brother to the bael tree to get some fruit for the task, and you know I can't resisting creating something delicious in the process. As my brother also likes unique and exotic creations, I made 'Pani Beli Kooru'(stewed bael fruit sticks) which is one of my own inventions and also made Grandma 'seeni beli'(boiled bael fruit with sugar) which is one of her favourites
