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21st Menu:

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

Lunch:
Avarakkai sambar
Pepper-jeera rasam
Ladiesfinger curry
Pasta salad (pasta+capsicum+walnut+tomatoes+figs+1 tbsp curd)
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Dinner (for family)
Methi paratha
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Since we had 2 extra guests & I had to make about 20. Me, Manas & thanu worked like a "relay"! I was rolling out in the roti maker , manas was running passing them on to Thanu, who at the other end was shallow frying them in 2 stoves!!
Jain Panchratni dhal (yet to be posted)
Alu-gobi
Carrot chocolate muffins.
Love,
Chithra

26th Nov:

Breakfast:
Sprout-toast with brown bread & Green tea
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Lunch:
Sweet potato sambar
beans curry
My salad - carrot+walnut+dates
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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
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Spread
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Dessert - shahi tukre
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Plate with goodies
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Karthigai Special - Caramel Payasam & FP&Baked Appam:
Step-by-step Photos are posted with the recipe today. This is the "ready to serve" photo.
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FP& Baked Appam:
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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
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Lunch:
Jiffy pepper rice - yet to be posted
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moong snakegourd kootu
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Mysore rasam
Salad - repeat



Dinner:
Sambar idli+curds
Noodle soup for me with spring onions - yet to be posted
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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.
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Transfer in spoons to paper cups in muffin tins.
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Bake at 200 deg C for 10 mts.
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A day's menu:
Breakfast:
Fruits, pineapple milkshake, cornflaes with oat-bites
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Lunch:
Small onion sambar
Mixed vegetable curry
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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
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Lunch:
Sweet vathakuzambu
Snakegourd kootu
Waldorf salad (I cut off the dressing part!)
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Dinner:
Dhal dhokli - with all left over dhals, vegs, chappathis etc
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Sunday Menu:
Breakfast:
A fantastic or exotic smoothy - oats+milk+flaxseed powder+preserved pineapple+cheese!
Believe me, pineapple+cheese make a terrific combo!
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Lunch:
Green pulao + fruit raitha
Salad
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Poricha rasam +ladiesfinger curry

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