i celebrated our new year 2010(vishu) at shillong. celebrating your traditional festival far away from your home is a difficult task. but i wanted to celebrate vishu with sadhya and vishukani as my children will come to know about our festivals, culture and tradition. there will be some flaws in your preparation due to the unavailability of various things. but still we managed to make vishu a grand success. but we really missed everybody out there in our home town- the bond and unity and of course the fire crackers. the vishukani we made was without the kanikonna and kanivellari, the most important thing in the vishukani. these things are not available in northeast. the preparation of sadhya was also challenging. the avial was without yam. i could'nt make pineapple pachadi too because april and may are the only two months in which pineapple is not available in shillong. finally our sadhya had mango pulissery, ishtu, vendakka pachadi, idichakka thoran, avial and unakkalari payasam. i brought the rice for payasam from kerala. after working in kitchen for continuous 3-4 hrs the sadhya will be obviously tasty- it has to be.
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