Time management - cooking, cleaning, and exercise

Glad to know that you had not tired yourself JAG @justanothergirl. Great ideas to use left over subjis. Cheese... the gift to moms to get children to eat veggies. Why kids, this mom loves cheese too.

Yes, idli-dosa batter is such a lifesaver. @chillbreeze Love your different combos. Must come to your home one day just to taste the different dosas. Glad to know you are better now. Also happy to know that planning is helping you out.
Believe me, as you keep planning you will slowly learn to fine tune and soon be able to plan for the entire week.

Sure lady. Come over.. Let's have a blast.
I know.. the pot holder is inexcusable. But what's a girl to do when Brewster's Millions is played on her?
Now, coming to think of Brewster's millions, perhaps million dollars would propel me go shopping - those diamonds as we enter Costco have been tempting me way too long.

 

Wednesday...

5:30 - 6:30 am - Rose. Made coffee. Coffee and internet. Once the coffee cup emptied, cleaned my desk of unwanted stuff. Shredded bills. Emailed some reminders to my work email.

6:30 - Threw a batch of clothes in the washing machine. Collected water bottles from the bedside table. Went downstairs. Washed the water bottles, filled them up and placed them in the fridge.

• Lit agarbathi and began my cooking. As I was going to use the previous day's food for lunch there was not much to do.
• First I placed rice in the rice cooker. (In the early days of my marriage I would do this last and many times my husband would eat half-cooked rice because he would have to go to a meeting. Lesson learned) If rice is ready, even if nothing else is cooked, he can have curd rice with pickle.
• Next I placed the batter in idli steamer. Same logic... if idlis are done they can be had with milagai podi if worst comes.
• While the idlis were steaming, I made brinjal gothsu. (Breakfast ready).
• I had run out of tamarind extract. So Pressure cooked a large amount of tamarind, bottled, and refrigerated the extract, after using the required quantity for gothsu. (One major prep work already done)
• I churned buttermilk - seasoned with ginger, fenugreek powder, and "thaalippu."
• Revived the rasam with some fresh thallippu, coriander leaves, and curry leaves.
• Revived the vegetable by sauteing a small piece of onion, and some grated coconut.

Moved the washed clothes to the dryer. Had my b'fast, Packed my lunch. Left for work. Took the dry cleaning.

Exercise.
By the time I reached work I had taken about 1,000 steps.
I took a ten minute walk during lunch break and small breaks taking the longer route to the water fountain and restrooms. When I came home I had logged in about 7,000 steps.

5:30 pm - Came home after leaving the clothes at the dry-cleaners en-route.

• Had my evening coffee while watching the recorded program (only one program).
• Folded the dried clothes and put them away. Put another batch of clothes in the washer. These were sarees.
• Knead chapatti dough. Made a quick subji for the chapattis.
• Practiced my music for 30 minutes. Finding very difficult to sit cross legged for long (must work on this)
• After taking a couple of phone calls, made chappatis and had our dinner.
• By this time I had logged in another 1,500 steps totaling 8,500.
• After dinner, walked round and round the home for 15 minutes till I reached 10,000 steps.

• Did one more job toward kitchen cleanup - the hood above the range. Placed the filters and the stove grills in the dishwasher to wash. Sprayed cleaner on the hood and under and cleaned the grimy surface. Took me about 15-20 minutes to do this.
• Placed the washed sarees on the rails to air dry.

Went to bed.

The major things I accomplished

• Met my exercise goal
• Tamarind extract
• Cleaned kitchen hood
• Practiced my music
• Getting clothes in order
• Work desk cleared. Paper clutter avoided.

Have a great day...

 

Thank you @coolgal123 .

 

Thank you @justanothergirl .
Erm.. it wascreally easy. one kadai, do thallipu for all three... buttermilk, rasam, and the curry, put a spoonful of each in buutermilj and rasam. to the remainder add chopped onion, saute and add the veggies.

My hubby likes only S. Indian, cooking all these years I come up with shortcuts that I dont think twice about.

Youve done a lot ! Love those neat ideas for alternates to idli and dosa. I should plan a trip to your home too, to enjoy good food.