Throwback to a time when the entire Team got together, physically, not virtually.
A year ago.
5 year anniversary celebrated at National Team Meeting in Tauranga.
Vanilla and white chocolate 3 layered cake decorated with pink macaroons, white choc biscuits, and layers of white choc, pink flowers. Photos show partly demolished cake. Manager compared creatively decorated cake to my apparently creative training methods. Am also known as TTT Terrible Tiger Trainer. 🙊😂
Dishes of love.
Created with Recipes
From Mum and Mum in law.
Mum’s ginger, green chilli, lentil rasam.
Light Lentil soup with tomatoes, coriander leaves, crushed black pepper, jullienne ginger, sliced green chillies, mum’s soup spiced powder/Rasa podi, tempered in ghee with mustard seeds, cummin, curry leaves, hing, dried red chillies, and a generous squeeze of lemon.
MIL’s brinjal Pahie. Pickled brinjal.
Deep fried brinjals, sliced red onions, green chillies, curry leaves, with pounded ginger, garlic, and ground mustard seeds, dried red chillies, cummin seeds, vinegar, salt, jaggery. Tastes even better the next day.
A dinner. Some nights ago.
Italian, once more.
Spaghetti tossed with olive oil, basil pesto, crushed black pepper, chilli flakes, parmesan cheese. With tomato, basil parmesan pasta sauce (enhanced? adulterated? With curry powder).
With a side of grilled garlic bread.
#onepotmeal #lockdownsimplemeal #minimalisticmeals #recyclefood #leftovers #NoJudgementPlease is this even a hashtag? #servelovegive #cookwithlove #cooknoairs #vegetarian #vegan #eggless #mykitchen #simplefood #kitchendiaries #comfortfood #bitesbybavani #bluffsbybavani #inmykitchen #kitchendiaries
A weekday Dinner.
Tried jowar/sorghum/cholam flour rotti.
To be honest, it was an epic failure but no one noticed. Or they did and were too polite to say otberwise.
Served it with a dry potato, tomato, carrot, leek chilli curry
And a version of baingan bhartha/grilled in oven with olive oil brinjal tamarind curry.
Another Lunch.
Okra kuzhambu/gravy.
Brussels sprouts had a slightly bitter after taste the other day, so added fresh sweet corn kernels.
Leftover potato, leek fry and mashed brinjal curry.
Creamy mung dhall.
Curd rice with mandarins and curd chilli, mildly tempered with spices.
Lunch on a Saturday.
Radish kuzhambu/gravy.
French beans and potato fry. Mum used to do this with long beans cut fine.
Mashed leftover paneer, added potato, stale bread in freezer, made cutlets/koftas. Tempered with fried onions, curry leaves.
Pumpkin patchadi.
Yoghurt, rice, crispsmmm.onepotmeal #lockdownsimplemeal #minimalisticmeals #recyclefood #leftovers #NoJudgementPlease is this even a hashtag? #servelovegive #cookwithlove #cooknoairs #vegetarian #vegan #eggless #mykitchen #simplefood #kitchendiaries #comfortfood #bitesbybavani #bluffsbybavani #inmykitchen #kitchendiaries
Packed a dinner box for a young student who came for a late class, and whose parents are overseas at the moment. Greens were polished off, so left with vegan kungpao chicken and potatoes, and marinated spiced tofu on white basmati rice.
A Post of Gratitude.
For a friend who spent her weekend making
Delicious lime pickle
And
Ghee, Pure Clarified butter
For us.
Used it in my dhall and tempering of curd rice ❤🙏
Thank you so much dear melanie
Stay safe and blessed always.
Friday Dinner.
Lunch was Malaysian.
Dinner, Italian.
Vegetarian Lasagna.
Daughter#2 helped assemble.
Layers of fried onions, garlic, portobello mushrooms;
fresh parsley, capsicum, spinach leaves,
Smothered with tomato basil sauce, Italian herbs,
Spinach ricotta spread,
Finally topped with mozzarella and parmesan cheese.
#onepotmeal #lockdownsimplemeal #minimalisticmeals #recyclefood #leftovers #NoJudgementPlease is this even a hashtag? #servelovegive #cookwithlove #cooknoairs #vegetarian #vegan #eggless #mykitchen #simplefood #kitchendiaries #comfortfood #bitesbybavani #bluffsbybavani
Friday Lunch.
Rose pretty early to sort this out before work.
Vegan Nasi Lemak.
Coconut milk rice with screwpine leaves and ginger.
Chilli sambal.
Vegan fried anchovies/dried mushrooms.
Fried peanuts.
Couldn’t find greens in the fridge so made a stir fry cauliflower and added turmeric to give it some colour.
Decided not to use vegan chicken, used paneer and fried up the cubes with onions, garlic, ginger, chilli powder.
Got home and had my lunch for tea. Washed it down with a beautiful hot of sugarless milk watawala kahata tea.
Bavani’s Happy Place 