Homemaker Asha P Nair, recovering from COVID-19, was in no mood to cook. “Buying a meal would result in a lot of leftover rice, So I cooked rice and bought sambar, aviyal, thoran, and pulissery from a caterer nearby,” says Asha a resident of Palkkulangara in Thiruvananthapuram.
When Vidya Balachandran, a bank employee, wanted to take a break from cooking lunch she ordered side dishes from home cooks. “I bought my favourite vada koottu curry (urad dal fritters in gravy) and payasam.”
