🍲 Recipes

🍲 Grandma’s Homely Recipes

Simple, soulful dishes that taste like childhood, devotion, and love.

In every Indian home, recipes are more than just instructions—they are memories. Passed down from grandmothers to mothers, whispered over kitchen fires, or scribbled in old notebooks stained with turmeric and time, these dishes carry the warmth of generations.

At Bhuangan, we celebrate the sacred and the simple—just like the meals served after a morning puja, or the rasam that healed more than just a cold.

Now that it's summer, our bodies crave more than just taste - they need hydration, cooling, and balance. And there is one drink that finds its way into almost every Indian home during this season:

A Journey Through Ritual, Remedy, and Reverence

Turmeric: The Spice That Heals Generations

Beetroot for Energy & Blood Pressure

The Root That Grounds You

🌾Ragi: Ancient Strength for Modern Life – A Forgotten Grain’s Sacred Story

Ragi: The Ancient Grain That Feeds Strength in Silence

Ragi: Sacred Grain for Energy, Healing and Daily Wellness

🌀 Ativrushti Anavrushti: When Too Much Is As Harmful As Too Little - By MS | Bhuangan Blog

Ati vā anā vā  

Neither flood nor drought nurtures life. Only the quiet stream sustains.

🌧️ The Wisdom in Rain

There’s a saying in our place:
“Ativrushti Anavrushti.”
Too much, or too little — both are dangerous.

It may speak of rain and harvest, but its wisdom goes far beyond weather.
It speaks to the rhythms of your body.
To the rituals we follow.
To the silence between advice and action.

“Moderation is sacred. Balance is everything.”

🧬 Your Body Is Ancient — And Uniquely Yours

No one comes into this world empty-minded or blank-bodied.
You carry within you the memory of generations — in your genes, in your gut, in your cells.
What works for one may not work for you — and that’s not a flaw. It’s your fingerprint.

Some bodies absorb quickly, some resist at first, some bloom slowly over time.
So when someone suggests a healing practice, a food ritual, or a spiritual fix — listen.
But then… pause.

Ask:

Is this right for my pace?
Does this honor my past?
Is this a flood when I need a stream?

🌱 Start Small. Go Slow. Don’t Overturn Your World Overnight.

Your body is not a trend to hack.
It’s a landscape to understand.

Take advice, take inspiration — yes.
But don’t bulldoze your entire life overnight. That overwhelm?
It’s why so many start strong, then quit.
Because they rushed to follow, instead of learning to adapt.

“If one tulsi tea helps, you don’t need five.
If one sun salutation feels right, you don’t need fifty.”

Understand first, then begin. Begin small, then walk.
Let your body trust you again.

🌸 Your Pace Is Sacred

Some see results in days.
Others — months.
And for a few — it takes years.

But here’s the secret:
If you give your body the right inputs — something is happening.
You may not feel it yet, but your body is listening, shifting, responding.
Not all healing makes noise.

So as long as there’s no harm — continue.
Let time and patience do their invisible work.
But never — ever — cross the line of balance.

“Too little and nothing grows.
Too much and everything drowns.”

🕊️ A Bhuangan Thought to Carry:

“Even sacred things, when overdone, become burdens.
True wellness is knowing how much, when, and why.”

So next time someone offers you a practice, a mantra, a diet, or a lifestyle:
👉🏽 Don’t reject it.
👉🏽 Don’t copy it blindly.

Reflect. Adjust. Listen. And then, if it feels right, begin. Slowly. Gently. With respect.

Because your body is not slow.
It is sacred.
And sacred things take time.

🌿 If this resonates…

Stick around.
And follow us on Instagram — where we explore rituals that are rooted, real, and ready to meet you where you are.

Let’s grow — together — in balance.

🌼 Heaven in Your Backyard: A Living Therapy of Roots, Wings & Silence 🌿- By MS | Bhuangan Blog

By the gentle soil, under the saffron sky, healing begins...

🌅 Introduction: Where the Breeze Whispers Peace

In a world that races and roars, where screens glow brighter than stars, there is a place waiting to hold your weariness and whisper calm into your ears.

It’s not far.

It could be just outside your window.

Step into your backyard, balcony, or any corner of earth you can call your own, and begin planting your peace — one native flower, one seed of hope, one fragrant breath at a time.

Here, among the curling vines and rustling leaves, you will find your therapy.
Here, the birds don’t judge. The bees don’t rush. And every petal opens slowly, just like your healing heart.

🌿 Why Native Plants Are Your Garden’s Soul

Native plants are the wise elders of your land.
They’ve whispered through centuries of sun and monsoon, learned to dance with the soil and sing with the insects.
When you plant what belongs, you invite life to flow naturally — bees hum louder, butterflies return home, and birds perch with familiarity.

🌸 They require less water, less maintenance, and no chemicals.
🐝 They provide nectar to your local pollinators — the buzzing priestesses of reproduction.
🌾 They nurture the delicate food webs that hold our world together.

Planting native isn’t just gardening.

It’s remembering. It’s participating in the very story of the land.

🌺 The Garden as Therapy: A Temple of Stillness

When your hands dig the earth, your mind drops its burdens.
When a seed germinates, so does your hope.
Each morning you water becomes a meditation.
Each evening walk through the blossoms is your temple bell ringing peace.

Let me take you there:

"The koel calls from the mango tree,
Evening drapes her orange silk sari across the sky,
A butterfly, unsure of time, rests upon my shoulder —
And for a moment, I forget I was ever broken."

In this sacred space, therapy isn’t a couch.
It’s the kneeling in soil.
It’s watching life unfurl leaf by leaf.

🌞 Simple Joys: Parks, Pollinators & Painted Skies

Don’t just stop at your backyard — wander.
Walk through your neighborhood park at dusk.
Let your senses feast on the colors of sunset: gulmohar red, neem green, sky turmeric.
Let birdsong be your playlist, and falling bougainvillea petals your carpet.

Pollinators flit from blossom to blossom like tiny winged therapists, reminding you to follow the joy.
The squirrel chases shadows and the jasmine waits for the moon.

This — this is abundance.

And you created it, simply by letting nature in.

🕊️ A Gentle Call-to-Action: Start Where You Are

You don’t need acres. You need intention.

• 🌱 Start with one pot of marigold or hibiscus.

• 🐝 Add tulsi, curry leaf, or lemongrass — herbs for you, nectar for them.

• 🐦 Hang a shallow bowl of water. Let the birds sip and stay.

• 🏡 Let your garden be wild, just enough for wonder.

And as you do, you’ll notice…
the more life you invite into your garden, the more aliveness returns to your spirit.

🌸 In Conclusion: Your Garden is Your Guru

In India, we bow to trees.
We whisper mantras into saplings.
We light lamps near tulsi and thank the cow for her dung that feeds our soil.

This wisdom was never old. It was eternal.

Now, as our world spins faster, this ancient truth feels more urgent than ever:

Your garden is not just a space. It is a sanctuary.

Not just for the planet — but for you.

Let the bees teach you patience.
Let the flowers show you resilience.
Let the birds remind you that song can return, even after long silence.

Go ahead — make heaven bloom in your backyard🌿

🌱🍎 Live Foods vs. Fast Lives: Feeding Your Family with Purpose - By MS | Bhuangan Blog

 Live Foods vs. Fast Lives: Feeding Your Family with Purpose

In a world moving at the speed of scrolls and swipes, food has quietly become an afterthought.

We eat between calls. We snack during screen time.

We serve convenience — and call it nourishment.

But food is not just fuel.

Food is memory. Food is care. Food is energy with direction.

🍲 What Are “Live Foods”?

Live foods are not a trend.

They’re ingredients that still carry prana — life-force — even after being harvested.

These include:

• Fresh fruits and vegetables
• Whole grains
• Legumes soaked and sprouted
• Homemade fermented foods (like curd or kanji)
• Simple preparations with minimal processing

They’re alive in texture, taste, and vitality — and the body recognizes them.

🏃‍♂️ What Are Fast Foods... Really?

Let’s not confuse speed with survival.

Fast foods (and we don’t just mean burgers) are anything that’s:

• Overly processed
• Comes in plastic more than produce
• Microwaved in a rush
• Made to fill, not to feel

Over time, these foods slow us down internally — even when our schedules demand the opposite.

Mood swings. Sluggish mornings. Kids with attention struggles.

The body speaks, even if we don’t listen.

🧡 Feeding with Purpose — Not Perfection

At Bhuangan, we believe nourishment begins long before the food reaches the plate.

It begins when:

• You soak the rice instead of tearing open a packet
• You crush fresh ginger for rasam instead of microwaving soup
• You ask your child to smell the curry leaves before they go into the pan

These moments matter.

Because they remind us that we are not feeding a machine.

We are feeding souls in motion.

🥣 Simple Shifts for Real Meals

You don’t need to throw your kitchen upside-down to return to purposeful food.

Here are small shifts that bring life back into the act of feeding:

• Begin with Fresh: Add one raw thing to each meal — fruit, grated carrot, soaked raisins
• Cook Once, Sit Twice: Make a pot of kichdi and eat it warm for lunch and dinner with different sides
• Soak Overnight: Even soaking rice or moong dal gives it more digestibility
• Eat Together: Even one shared meal a day grounds the whole family
• Bless Silently: One breath before eating shifts the whole nervous system

🌿 Children Notice Ritual, Not Rules

You don’t have to lecture them about antioxidants.

• Let them see you light the stove with presence.
• Let them stir the dal and smell the turmeric.
• Let them connect with food as something alive, not something bought or rushed.

Because someday, when they’re far from home, this is what they’ll remember:

• The warm chapati.
• The laughter over lunch.
• The smell of mustard seeds popping in oil.

🍵 A Gentle Reminder

Live food doesn’t just fill our stomachs — it fills our homes with rhythm and respect.

Fast food fills a gap.

But live food creates a memory, a message, a moment of care.

💬 Ask Yourself Today:

• Did I eat something that was alive before it reached me?
• Did I feed my family from a place of presence, not panic?
• Can I slow down one meal this week — just a little?

You don’t have to cook perfectly.

You just have to cook with purpose.

🔗 Tech & Spirit: Grounded in a Digital World - By MS | Bhuangan Blog

🔗🌿 Can You Be Tech-Savvy & Spiritually Grounded? Absolutely.

We often hear the quiet whisper:

"Maybe I should quit social media."
"Maybe I need to go offline to be more spiritual."
"Maybe technology and peace just can’t coexist."

But here’s a softer truth:
You don’t need to escape the digital world to be whole.
You just need to know when to enter, and when to exit.

🌱 Technology Isn’t the Enemy — Disconnection Is

At Bhuangan, we don’t believe in rejecting the modern world.
We believe in relating to it consciously.

Your phone can be a scroll trap — or it can be a sanctuary.
It depends entirely on how you use it.

• A video call to your grandmother = connection
• A two-hour doomscroll = disorientation
• Writing down a dream = self-reflection
• Jumping from tab to tab = self-forgetting

Technology isn’t the villain. It’s the intention behind it that matters.

🔌 Use Tech, But Don’t Let It Use You

Being tech-savvy is a gift — a way to learn, create, share, and heal.

But let’s also remember to:

• Look someone in the eye, not just through the screen
• Take a breath before tapping the next notification
• Protect our mornings from the noise of the world
• Be curious without becoming consumed
• Make space to feel, not just react

Groundedness doesn’t mean silence.

It means awareness.

🌿 What Staying Grounded Can Look Like:

• Checking in with yourself before checking your phone
• Logging off without guilt
• Creating before consuming
• Using tech to deepen your relationships — not escape them
• Keeping small rituals that anchor you: lighting a diya, writing a line of gratitude, breathing consciously

You can code and chant.
You can run a business and sip chai in silence.
You can be digital — and deeply rooted.

You don’t have to choose.

💬 A Quiet Reminder

Spirituality isn’t about leaving the world behind.

It’s about remembering who you are within it.

So yes — you can absolutely be tech-savvy and spiritually grounded.

All it takes is knowing what to hold, and what to gently let go.

🌞 The Magic of Mornings: Building a Ritual Before the Scroll - By MS | Bhuangan Blog

There’s something sacred about the very first few minutes after waking.

It’s when the mind hasn’t yet been hijacked by headlines.

The inbox is still asleep.

The world hasn’t asked anything of you.

And yet — most of us give those moments away.

We reach for the phone. We scroll. We let other voices enter before we’ve heard our own.

But what if we didn’t?

✨ Why Mornings Matter So Much

In spiritual traditions across time and geography — from Ayurveda to Zen — mornings are seen as the most potent hours for grounding and clarity.

Your subconscious is still open.

Your nervous system is more receptive.

What you invite into that space shapes how the rest of your day feels.

It’s not about discipline. It’s about designing a gentle threshold between sleep and the outer world.

🪔 My Morning, My Way

In my home, the first few minutes of the day are quiet.

There’s no grand ceremony. But there is intention.

• I light a diya. Not for the gods — for the moment.
• I say thank you — for the body, the breath, the fact that I woke up again.
• I touch the floor, grounding myself in here and now.
• I drink warm water, slowly.
• I sit still, even if it is just for 3 minutes.

It’s less about what I do — more about what I *don’t* do.

I don’t reach for the phone.

I don’t start solving.

I don’t scroll through other people’s lives before remembering my own.

🧘🏽 How to Create Your Own Morning Ritual

Your ritual doesn’t need to be perfect. It just needs to be yours. Here’s a simple way to begin:

1. Stay Screen-Free for the First 15 Minutes.

Try placing your phone in another room.

Let your first thoughts be your own, not the algorithm’s.

2. Choose One Anchor Activity

Lighting a candle

Writing in a journal

Stretching your arms

Chanting or deep breathing

Even 1 minute of conscious action creates a shift.

3. Ask Your Soul a Question

What do I need today?

How do I want to show up?

Even if you don’t “hear” an answer — asking makes room.

🌿 Before the Scroll, Choose Stillness

This isn’t about productivity or optimization.

It’s about self-respect.

It’s about giving the soul space to speak before everyone else has your attention.

Phones can wait.

The soul should go first.

💭 A Final Invitation

Try this for three days. Just three.

Before the scroll, build a small ritual — something your body and spirit can rely on.

See what changes.

Not outside — but inside.

🌀 The Journey Within – it's timeless, warm, and inviting — perfect for first-timers and deep thinkers alike - By Satya | Bhuangan Blog

 🌿 Where Spirituality Begins
A gentle invitation to look inward, not outward.

Where Do You Begin?

I’m not a guru. I’m not here to teach you how to be spiritual.

But I can share what I’ve seen — through my own experiences, dreams, and quiet moments that changed me.

Spirituality, to me, begins when you stop looking out and start looking in.

Your soul already knows so much — more than the body, more than the mind, more than you’ve been told to believe. It just speaks a little softer.

Start with this:
🌙 Keep a dream journal — not everything will make sense, but something always will.

🧘‍♀️ Sit with your mind — notice where it runs, what it says when no one’s watching. That’s your first teacher.

🌱 Don’t copy someone else’s path. The soul has its own journey. Yours is sacred and uniquely shaped for you.

This is not about being perfect.

This is about remembering something you already are.

The path isn’t outside you. It starts exactly where you are.