Ms Kamala shows Tsem Ladrang Traditional Indian Thali dishes!
I love Indian food…The Tsem Ladrang Kitchen team do their best to come up with a variety of foods for me, staff and many guests daily..they work very hard and with so much sincerity.. I must commend them for their hard work, love and care recently.
They recently invited Ms Kamala to show them how to do traditional Indian Thali dishes that I like. Here’s a wonderful short video of this. I thank Ms Kamala so much for her generosity in sharing. May Setrap bless her and her family always. I thank the kitchen staff for their enthusiasm to always want to learn, improve and grow. Much thanks,
Tsem Rinpoche
Or view the video on the server at:
https://video.tsemtulku.com/videos/CookingWithKamala.mp4
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Indian food are always full of flavor and complexities of flavors. What I like is that they always make use of lentils and such for a very balance diet.
Thanks to Ms Kamala Devi for showing how to cook Indian food.
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Hi, Inspiring and mouth watering video. I love Indian and would eat every day if I could. Makes me feel so good and light the next day. Please can someone post these recipes? I can’t follow what is happening in the video so well… Perhaps they are already here on this blog but my brain and blogs don’t go well together and I can’t find….
I would really appreciate it. Thank you.
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Its true Rinpoche loves Indian food very much. During the many times I visited Rinpoche in Gaden. Most of the time he will ask his monks or his tibetan cook to to cook Indian curry or dhal to eat with tibetan bread. Sometimes if he feels he wants to have special Indian curry dishes he will send his monks to go to Hubli the nearest town to buy for him. Hubli is about an hours ride by car. But the monks had to take bus as Mundgod where the Monastery is sisuated is out in the jungle. Even in Malaysia when Rinpoche goes out for dinner he loves to go for Indian food. It is good the kitchen team has the opportunity to learn the cookings of Rinpoche’s favourate Tradkitional Indian Thali dishes taught by Ms Kamala.
A simple gesture goes a long way. I see that Kamala repays Rinpoche’s kindness by doing what she does best and within her capacity. Contributing towards something good doesn’t necessary be in monetary form. There are so many forms of generosity.
In Kamala’s case is her yummy cooking, knowledge and time. How generous of Kamala to share her knowledge with others and not be selfish by keeping it to herself.
At least once a week, Kamala will send food for Rinpoche because she knows Rinpoche loves Indian food. It also helps ease Justin’s workload. Really helps when Justin have many sleepless nights. Very thoughtful of her.
I am very lucky to be able to eat Kamala’s cooking everyday if I want to. Many people flock to her house just to have a meal. Everyone looks forward for Deepavali. There was never a single negative comment, but always extremely positive remarks. When visitors come visiting her home, first thing Kamala does is feed and feed and feed. There used to be at least 10 dishes laid out in a buffet style every weekday during lunch. Very often, Kamala packs food for her brothers/relatives who lives nearby. How spoiled of the family! But she doesn’t care. She just loves to feed.
Mrs Kamala is a great cook, she doesn’t have measurement and exact amounts – she says “you put as much as you want as you know best what you like”. She is warm, fun and very generous to share her secret Indian cooking recipes with us. What we took away from her teaching us is taste is unique and individual; use your own judgment and common sense! And if you don’t have the ingredients you need in the KITCHEN, be CREATIVE and use what you got so long as it is still delicious!We had a fun filled day cooking up the chutney, masala and dhal.
All this manifested because one day Rinpoche mentioned to us how much he misses being in Gaden India and the Indian food especially Thali he loves so much over there which is not the same as here. So the next thing I did was to whisper a hint to Cynthia to tell her mother-inlaw. Next day we got home made Indian Thali! Then next thing we know, Rinpoche said we should learn how to cook it and that is how she basically appeared in the Ladrang’s warm kitchen 🙂 And up till today she has been cooking Indian Thali for Rinpoche once a week which we pick up from her home.
Just about anyone and everyone can share and be of benefit to others in one way or another, through their talents and skills of many different flavours. Thank you Kamala, you set an example that you can be beneficial even if you are a Lady of Leisure and still bring smiles to people’s stomachs and heart! This is real Dharma in action! Thank you!!!
Kamala has soo many different, different recipes that I can learn I’m glad that I found an authentic Indian Food Teacher. Kamala has made it her dharma practice to cook for Rinpoche and Rinpoche’s elves who look forward to her offerings every week. She joins the others who have taken offerings to a more personal level, making and offering food to our Lama.
I have to request her to teach me Indian breakfast favourites like idli, wada, sira, uma, white chudney, red chudney, potatoes with peas, which Rinpoche loves with Indian tea sometimes. Very filling and very yummy especially fresh at 630am!
I love Indian food too but I think Rinpoche’s love for Indian food goes much more than just food. For Rinpoche, the Indian food probably recalls his many years in Gaden Monastery and the times he went on pilgrimage to many important Buddhist holy sites. The food probably evokes those more quieter and spiritual aspects of his life. With Rinpoche, it is pretty simple, even the food that he likes links back to times in his life where he had the leisure and time to engage in formal spiritual practices.
Rinpoche never wanted to leave the monastery in India but was force to by circumstances and our collective karma. He had always wanted to lead a very quiet and contemplative life, probably because of powerful imprints of having done that in previous lives. Leaving the monastery to teach is not necessarily forced upon Rinpoche but what he manifests because travelling to teach was not part of the reason he came to India when he first entered the monastery.
Being an exemplary student, he adhered to the requests of his teachers and even after his teachers have long passed. That is the level of dedication not is not normally seen these days and his commitment as time goes by becomes firmer and firmer as evident by the departments and KWPC. I believe that by his sheer commitment to his Lamas, Rinpoche would make KWPC arise.
Way to go kamala !