DayPlanner-28-29-30-Mar12-NormalDays

DayPlanner-28-29-30-Mar12-NormalDays:

28th, 29th and 30th as I had been to office it was a normal food.

28th: I planned to make chappatis and palak paneer. But hubby told let us have chappatis with palya and chutney. So I went his words.

29th: He came home early and brought palak, we had Palak pappu and Rice.

30th: As I went to my SIL house and came I brought ridgegourd pappu made by her and prepared pulachaaru.

As it was year end hubby had a very hectic work schedule and couldn't literally concentrate much on things.

Breakfast on 28th was: Lemon Rice and Curd Rice

Lemon Rice:

As shown in above figure the ingredients are:

Salt - 2 tsp

Cooked rice - 1/2 glass

Roasted Groundnut - few

Cashewnuts - few

Green chillies -4

Curry leaves - few

Urad Dhal - 1 tsp

Channa Dhal - 1 tsp

Lemon Juice - extracted from 1 lemon

Oil - 2 tbsp

Turmeric - 1 tsp

Method:

Heat oil in a kadai once its hot roast cashewnuts and keep it aside

Take it out and in the same oil add mustard seeds once it splutters add urad dhal, channa dhal, groundnuts, curry leaves

Once the dhal becomes red add green chillies and mix well

Add powdered salt and mix well again

Before switching off the stove add 1 tsp of turmeric and mix well

Once this mixture gets cooled add lemon juice and mix well

Spread the rice in a big bowl so that it becomes little cool

Put the above mixture and mix well

Curd Rice:

Salt - 2 tsp

Cooked Rice - 1/2 glass

Urad Dhal - 1 tsp

Channa Dhal - 1 tsp

Oil - 2 tsp

Curry leaves - few

Curds - 1 cup (which appears like a bowl)

Green Chillies - 2

Method:

Heat oil in a kadai once its hot add mustard seeds when it splutters add urad dhal, channa dhal, curry leaves, green chillies and saute well

Remove it from the stove on the cooled rice, add salt and curds and mix well

Curd Rice is ready.

Note: I first prepared tadka for curd rice and used the same kadai for lemon rice. So the time to heat the kadai for the second time gets saved.

Oh God, that black colored one in the photo is mustard seeds and cumin seeds which i have kept for both lemon rice and curd rice.

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DayPlanner-27thMar2012-Tuesday-Jeera Candies

DayPlanner-27thMar2012-Tuesday-Jeera Candies:

Aditya had completed his exams on Monday and fully prepared to go in flight alone for the first time. This was the first time in my family a child traveling alone. Whole family was afraid but we did not have any other alternative. He was also afraid and said all his friends that he was traveling alone in flight. 

Flight was Jetlite and it had a one hour stop at Chennai. From Bangalore to Chennai it was one hour and from Chennai to Vishakapatnam it was one hour. So total of 3 hours was his travel. 

My mother-in-law who just traveled on 24th informed me that we would not get anything good in the flight. She told there was only sandwich and did not taste well, this is what happens if we don't taste different food. Aditya is also the same he carves for South Indian food and shows his face if anything new has to be tasted. He had dosa with paneer curry in airport as we were running short of time due to traffic jams and the repair of runway from 11th March to 30th April as per the circular put up in airport.

I went and filled up a form (which would be 3 in number) and paid 1000rs to the Archana, air hostess, attender for my son. She was an air hostess in jetlite flight who would make him to sit inside the flight. She collected the forms from me and took Aditya along with his check in baggage into the airport. I stood there waiting for him to sit inside the flight and then tell me "momma i am safe".  But once he went just till check-in I called him and asked is the check in over, he said yes. I asked him to give it to her and told her to buy one ice cream and sandwich for him. She did that and my son finally boarded the flight. I found out this once his mobile was switched off. I was there till 10am to check if he will give a call but no luck.


Coming to one of my favorite recipe, Jeerige (kannada word) Peppermint or Cumin Candies which I started liking from my childhood days. Wondered always how to do this, might be its too difficult. But came across this post, heartburn on Indian food rocks. I had this in a big wishlist of mine. 

Ingredients:
Amchur Powder - 2 tbsp
Cumin Seeds - 1 tbsp
Powdered Sugar - 8 tbsp
Lemon Juice - extracted from 1 lemon
Salt to taste

Method:
Roast the cumin seeds on a iron pan until it darkens but watch out it should not get burnt
Allow it to cool for sometime
Blend roasted cumin seeds along with amchur, and salt and 6 tbsp of powdered sugar
Mix it well with lemon juice, check the tangy taste it should taste like a candy so adjust with sugar if required
Instead of getting a mass it became slightly fluid, I kept it under the hot sun (as it is summer) after sometime it had become a thick mass
I made the different shapes (you should patience to make the small tiny balls into shape) because this little mixture will yield you nearly 100 candies
Roll it well in remaining powdered sugar
Leave it to dry for half a day and store it in an airtight container

As this was ready before aditya's departure expect for drying under sun Aditya tasted one and shook his head by closing his eyes and told momma, it tastes like peppermint. Thus, a long awaited cumin candy is ready at last.

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DayPlanner-26thMar2012-Monday

DayPlanner-26thMar2012-Monday:

Monday morning was on and that was the last exam of Aditya. He had Kannada on that day, my hubby's friend stayed with us on Sunday. I had made potato palya and chutney as side dishes for Crispy Dosa. 

While I was making Aditya ready for the school, my handsome hubby had put dosas for my breakfast box and for Aditya's breakfast. I had packed Aditya's short break snacks - Biscuits. He told me about having a big party in the cab while returning back from school. So I had to pack Thumps Up, naturo mango fruit for him along with hide and seek biscuits. He is just in his 3RD Standard and hosting a party. 

That day evening, I went home and prepared:

Sambar: Turnip and Potato Sambar

Rasam: Dhal Rasam

Special Dish was Finger chips/french fries.

Wow, my son enjoyed the recipes:

Step-by-Step-Clicks

Method:

• Peel the skin of the potato
• Wash the potato atleast for 3 to 4 times
• Chop the whole potato into finger chips shape (as shown in above 1st picture) 
• Wash the chopped potato once again and leave it in water.
• Add salt and chilli powder to the water where potatoes are soaked
• Remove the potato from water dip it in all purpose flour thoroughly
• Deep Fry it in oil
• Remove on the colander and put it on to a plate
• Serve it with tomato ketchup
• Yummy yummy finger chips are ready.

This is the second attempt which I made it successful in getting the crispy-ness. 

First time I did not dip it in flour so it was soft, but this time it had a little hard texture, which was crispy.

Sending this to:

a. "I am star" event at Vegetarian Food & Me authored by Rasya Srinath.

 

b. "Serve It - Stir Fried" at Krithi's Kitchen authored by Krithika

 

c.Bon Vivant - Savory @ Sumee's Culinary Bites authored by Sumedha.

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