Lunch Ideas - Creating Balanced Vegetarian Meals

hiya all missing in action. busy and more buzzy and a bit lazy with regards to this thread.

to those of you who appreciated this cake thanks a lot. it was just the bananas that make it soft. they are amazing egg substitutes.

@1sandhya welcome to dip ..looks amazing and tasted wonderfully spongy, moist and tasty. if i was into frosting this is one cake i would have wanted to do..

@sumanrathi no please please and all. enna sr idhu this is just a cake. give me some time, and also remind me if i forget, i will try to measure and tell you. honestly as i said when i posted it was a little of this, little of that..just whatever came in my hand..no proper measurement..sometimes baking can be forgivable or i tend to be lucky. it is is a oats+a little whole wheat, with bananas, jaggery, coffee decoction, nuts, and baking powder and baking soda mixed using milk..baked at 200d degrees and 25minutes..it stays fresh outside for 3-4 days in this summer heat in my place.. for measurements will be back

@latharam09 namma pakkathu theruvula irukkum bodhe meet panna mudiyala..lol on you getting a piece of that cake..remind me before..i tend to mess under pressure..hope dd is doing great..loads of wishes and luck her way.

 

@butterflyice these days you get everything in india in tn. all berries, all nuts. did you know california walnuts and almonds are getting marketed as the next best thing for a sharp brain.

@shodin yes i make poricha kootu with watermelon. last year it was kootu, stir fry with some shallots, and regular kootu. i do make a dosa with it too.

Lovely plates..liked the weekend affair. i have never tried jackfruit seeds and drumstick leaves. but the most healthiest and funny combo is murungai keerai and punnakku..(punnakku means oil cake after extracting oil..earlier it used to be hand pressed using the chekku maadu..like in the picture)


that is how oil was extracted before machines and mills came into the picture..oil was more healthy. the oil cakes..they were so nice to eat. have eaten drumsticks with this punnakku..doubles the nutrients..and was so good for calcium and iron content.

today the cakes are more useful as manure only..


@satchitananda lovely plate..i want some of those home grown veggies..it is becoming so hot that the mint, the greens are shrivelling already...

@chitravivek welcome back. lovely millets bath and the texture too is so good..

Pic source. internet .

 

On thursday i picked a plantain flower. so yesterday it was plantain flower curry without coconut(i did not have any) and a spicy cauliflower sabji (s special request from my son), tomato kootu and kodomillet/varagu rice. buttermilk on the side.





Today it was cucumber, curds, lady's finger sabji, radhish kootu and thinai/foxtail millet rice.




happy nombu to all those who do. will be doing early morning..