Whats for dinner today?

Hi ladies,

We slept later in the morning today at 5am..We went out for fair at our place and came back at 11.15pm.Once my kid slept at 1,We had movie night last night .So,no breakfast for us today.Just going to have lunch.My husband still sleeping.Its 12.45noon.My kid had set dosa with veggie toppings,milk as brunch.For lunch we are going to have Bhindi-potato fry,dosakaya-tomato curry and snakegourd(potlakaya) perugu pachadi with rice.

For dinner naan and channa masaala.

Cheers,
vaishu

Hi Vaishu,

Your menu sounds so good.

We had zuchini and moong dhal kootu, rasam, bhindi fry along with karivepaku (curry patha) podi sent by my aunt from Chennai and other usual sides.
No idea about tonight, may go out to eat.

I noticed that you and Varloo have asked about tofu preparation. I generally buy a large chunk of tofu and store in the fridge for a couple of weeks.

Tofu

If using tofu for dry preparations, place a weight on it so the excess water oozes out of it. Now cut the tofu into cubes, size is of your wish.
I generally then stir fry these cubes in a little oil in a wok and spice it with masalas. The masala used depends upon what you wish to incorporate the tofu into. For a veggie fry, I either spice it up with chili, garlic and salt or sambar powder and salt or even with tomatoes, garlic-ginger paste, chilli-coriander powders and salt. The idea is to infuse the masalas into tofu as tofu generally does not absorb the masalas easily.
For the kidney beans combo...I season out mustard and urad in some oil, add chopped onions and garlic. When they turn transparent, I add the boiled and drained kidney beans, salt and desired spices like salt, chilli and garlic paste and fry everything for a couple of minutes and add the already stir fried tofu pieces and garnish with coriander leaves:)

L, Kamla

Dear Kamala,

Thanq so much for posting ur tofu recipe,inspite of ur busy schedules now.Hope u must be having nice time with ur mom.

Today's breafast was idli with tomato chutney.And lunch was puri with channa masala curry and curdrice.
For dinner,Prawncurry with rice.

Cheers,
Vaishu

Dear Friends,
Today I am hosting an I L ite lunch in honour of a visiting N R I - ILite !
The traditional menu goes thus:

Butter Badusha
Grapes raita
Potato Roast
Beetroot Kootu
Carrot sadam
Kalyana Rasam
Bahala Bath
Panchakalyani Vadai
Apple Phirni

You are welcome to join us !
Love,
Chithra.

hey ladies

well i was one soul who had tasted all tht chitvish has mentioned in her above post !!!!

for me dinner today was thakali thogayal,garlic rasam with yummy vadam !!!

lov
sowmi

Vow sowmini,

Good to know that u were the lucky soul among us relishing Chetvish food.

I made sandwich for breakfast.For lunch,Thotakura pulusu(amaranth leaves curry) and mushroom curry with rice and roti.

For dinner,going to have leftovers from lunch.

-Cheers,
Vaishu

hi ladies,
have been out for quite sumtime
last time i typed and there was a database error.....stilll
today lunch was vegeable briani with cucumber raita and dinner will be mozarella with vegetable crosstini!!!!
chithu ur menu is just superb looking forward to a big treat when i meet u!!!!
vaishu and kamla how have u been????
regards
pavithra

Hi Pavithra,

Doing good.Nice to c u after long time with as usual rocking menu.I feel like having pulav now.My menu for today is :
Breakfast-(simple) Bread with omlette,strawberries,milk
lunch-Tomato curry with rice
evening snack-ravva idli with coconut chutney
Dinner-Mushroom with drumsticks ,raw bannanna-moongal curry with rice.

cheers,
-Vaishu

Hi all,
Today lunch was Kathrikai Sambar,Vendakkai Poriyal, Pavakkai Fry, Papad,Yogurt,pickles.......
For dinner it going to be Chapathi and Dhal..............

-Shantha Kasi/:

ymmmm...yummmyy....

Chithra, you are being very unfair. You cannot be listing all these goodies here and not give us. I think you have to start soon making all these yummy things and send it to your faithful IL fans through Fedex! When MTR can , so can you. The only other alternative for you is to send us all free flight tickets so that we can come to Chennai!!!

L, Kamla

Originally Posted by Chitvish

Dear Friends,
Today I am hosting an I L ite lunch in honour of a visiting N R I - ILite !
The traditional menu goes thus:

Butter Badusha
Grapes raita
Potato Roast
Beetroot Kootu
Carrot sadam
Kalyana Rasam
Bahala Bath
Panchakalyani Vadai
Apple Phirni

You are welcome to join us !
Love,
Chithra.