DELICIOUS [ loving food and living - part 4 ]

In my previous two parts upto the midday meals were finished , and a nap can be taken , if and when convenient. Ok, so if at all we take a nap we may dream about a food we like that comes by itself. In the meanwhile you dream, I tell about a few eatables , few petty things. When we roamed in the mountains during our childhood in The Nilgiris, used to get many fruits, vegetables, succulents, mushroom and even leaves for eating . Those were not available in the shops except plums, peaches, pears, oranges, apples, and local guava. In this post I tell about a few fruits and edibles which we as children went and collected, mostly picked up directly from the plants. In this category I will tell about vikki fruit, rasp berry, unni fruit and a leaf called as kuruvi veththalai (meaning betel leaves of sparrow). Vikkip palam is a fruis that grows in a tree. Now- a days, this fruit is available freely in the market. D...