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21st Menu:

Breakfast
V-Toast & sapota smoothy (sapota+milk powder+oats+flaxseed powder+water)

Smoothy - manam pona pokkil! for me+papaya
LuncH;
Mullangi sambar - beans curry-keerai+milaku rasam
When I make keerai, I gorge on it & so, salad gets a holiday!!
We get from an exclusive bakery (Padmasri Foods in CIT Colony) 100%wheat bread with garlic. I have that instead of phulkas, for a change. It is very good with keerai (Palak+tomato+green chillies)
Dinner:
Idlis (in honour of mullangi sambar)
Me - kadamba soup+MW crouton ( the soup is a mixture of all soups of the week-left overs, ofcourse)

Love,
Chithra.

 

Menu for 23rd:
BF:
Alu Poha
Papaya pieces for me - (we get very good variety now) with buttermilk. I gave smoothy, a well deserved break! :biggrin2:

Lunch:
Avarakkai sambar
Pepper-jeera rasam
Ladiesfinger curry
Pasta salad (pasta+capsicum+walnut+tomatoes+figs+1 tbsp curd)

Dinner (for family)
Methi paratha

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Jain Panchratni dhal (yet to be posted)
Alu-gobi
Carrot chocolate muffins.
Love,
Chithra

 

26th Nov:

Breakfast:
Sprout-toast with brown bread & Green tea

Lunch:
Sweet potato sambar
beans curry
My salad - carrot+walnut+dates

Dinner:
Idli (rice rava)+ sambar
Tomato soup

 

Dear Friends,
My elder GD, Thanu hosted a lunch (cooking entirely on her own with the help of IL, our forum) today. She invited both sets of grandparents & her would-be-inlaws.
The menu was:
Corn croquettes - tomato sauce
Morkuzambu vadai
vegetable pulao
dhal makhni
Paneer kheema
Macaroni Hotpot (not yet posted)
Semiiya bahalabhath - pickles
Shahi tukre
Thanu with the spread

Spread

Dessert - shahi tukre

Plate with goodies

 

Karthigai Special - Caramel Payasam & FP&Baked Appam:
Step-by-step Photos are posted with the recipe today. This is the "ready to serve" photo.

FP& Baked Appam:
http://www.indusladies.com/forums/ask-chitvish/11444-get-together-menus-2.html#post500118

Love,
Chithra.

 

A day's menu;
Breakfast
Green smoothy(suggested by an ILite)
One cup of spinach+2 stalks of celery+1 apple+1 small piece of ginger+1 cucumber+juice of 1lemon. Grind everything fine



Lunch:
Jiffy pepper rice - yet to be posted

moong snakegourd kootu

Mysore rasam
Salad - repeat



Dinner:
Sambar idli+curds
Noodle soup for me with spring onions - yet to be posted

 

Jaggery Appam - Food Processor & Baking Oven

For today's Karthigai, I tried appam thus:
Blend in the Food Processor (mincer blade)
2 medium banana sliced
1 cup brown sugar ( I uased nattu sakkarai)
1/2 cup each of refined oil, milk & curds
2 cups Wheat flour sieved with 1 tsp cooking soda
1 tsp cardamom powder
The mixture should be like thick idi batter.Add 1/2 banana more if the mixture is too thick.

Transfer in spoons to paper cups in muffin tins.

Bake at 200 deg C for 10 mts.

 

A day's menu:
Breakfast:
Fruits, pineapple milkshake, cornflaes with oat-bites

Lunch:
Small onion sambar
Mixed vegetable curry

Keerai masiyal

Dinner:
Rava dosai to go with sambar
Bhindi soup

 

A day's menu:
oats idli - instant sambar (a new recipe - all in one!- I will post it this evening. Believe it is a "varaprasadam" & you can make in 10 mts flat as little as 1 cup of sambar without stored cooked dhal! I am so excited!!)
Pineapple smoothy

Lunch:
Sweet vathakuzambu
Snakegourd kootu
Waldorf salad (I cut off the dressing part!)

Dinner:
Dhal dhokli - with all left over dhals, vegs, chappathis etc

 

Sunday Menu:
Breakfast:
A fantastic or exotic smoothy - oats+milk+flaxseed powder+preserved pineapple+cheese!
Believe me, pineapple+cheese make a terrific combo!

Lunch:
Green pulao + fruit raitha
Salad

Poricha rasam +ladiesfinger curry

Dinner:
Beetroot+paneer paratha
Vegetable salna (to be posted)
Sugar free apricot burfi (for trial)