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Date: Sat, 10 Sep 2011 17:58:28 -0400 From: Zelma DeSouza <zgdeso...@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Goanet] Food of another day... nachni Hi Zelma, Happy to know that you still use "Nachnne" for your kids nutrition. Nachnne or gondde as they are known in the south, are the most nutritious and the porridge as you called it is prepared in three ways, one is called "Ambil" and the other two called "tizan". Ambil is prepared by soaking the powdered nachnne in rice water (nis) over night and tizan is prepared with coconut juice with sugar or "godd", sometimes milk is used instead of coconut juice. My Mom use to grow Nachnne every alternate year. In my younger days my Mom use to make tizan every alternate day during the holidays when I and my sisters were back home from the boarding, on other days she use to make "golxem" or "attol" or "sullolio" in coconut juice. But the one that was given to a post delivery women "bannott" was mostly "Ambil" it was said that it helps with the healing of any operation, scientifically I am not sure if it's been proved but our older generations believed in it's open wound or cut, healing powers. During my college days in 1977 in Bombay, I was injured while playing basketball when I landed on an iron rod that ripped my right thigh, on the outside, gash deep enough to expose my thigh bone, I had 24 stitches on the inside and 24 on the outside, it was a very bad cut lost a lot of blood, two day later while in hospital my Mom arrived from Goa and guess what, brought half a sack of Nachnne with her, it was Aimbil for breakfast and tizan in the evening for the next few months and somehow the big gash healed in no time and I was back on the basketball court, football and hockey fields in less than three months. The only problem I had with Ambil was, it dries up the stomach and use to have a torrid time to do my morning chore ! I still love my tizan, and we still have it at home very often, my wife use to even bring nachnne to Abu Dhabi on her visits here, the kids use to love it too. I am not sure if some of our kids today know what "tizan" is in this morden day of junkfood ? Freddy Agnelo Fernandes ##################################################################################### The content of this electronic communication is intended solely for the use of the individual or entity to whom it is addressed and any others who are specifically authorized to receive it. It may contain confidential or legally privileged information. If you are not the intended recipient you are hereby notified that any disclosure, copying, distribution or otherwise placing reliance on the contents of this information is prohibited and may be unlawful in certain legal jurisdictions. If you have received this communication in error please notify the sender immediately by responding to this email and then delete it from your system. #####################################################################################