Received sad news.
Did some therapeutic Saturday cooking.
Lunch.
Chow chow kuzhambu/gravy.
Brinjal and potato chilli fry.
Broccoli steamed, tempered with roasted garlic slices, chilli flakes.
Sabudana/sago cutlets. Soaked frozen paleo gluten free bread slices, added to sabudana spice mix.
Went out to get Asian Vegan groceries.
Home again.
Video calls with family.
Had a steaming cup of husband’s masala tea.
Dinner – more food therapy.

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Another Lunch.
Had to be a quick fix meal.

1. Talley’s frozen spinach became a coconut creamy spinach and paneer. Onion garlic free
2. Used the rest of the paneer to make chilli fried paneer with chopped onions, ground garlic and ginger.
3. Lentil rasam/soup. Onion garlic free.
4. Creamy lentils. (Lentils again? Yup, not thinking straight, poor planning). Onion garlic free.
5. Button Mushroom and potato kuzhambu/gravy
6. White rice for them and cauliflower/quinoa/lentil mix for me.

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A Saturday lunch.

Fresh vegetables, stuffed in vege drawer of fridge.
Spoilt for choice.
Stared at the fresh french beans and the cauli glared back.
The brinjals flattened under the  portobello and button mushrooms, too.
To appease them, decided to cook them all.
So, made onion garlic free

1. Beans thoren
2. Cauli roast
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3. Tender jackfruit/Polos curry with goraka/garcinia to give that slightly sour kick
4. Brinjal hot curry
5. Also tried to magically transform, please don’t frown, the sabudana kichdi (sago lightly spiced dish) into some form of cutlet by adding mashed potatoes, moist bread slices, and lemon juice.
6. All of the above went quite well with a simple, fluffy, rice cummin and turmeric rice.
7. And yoghurt.

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Foodspeak is now officially my favouritest group..
Until Monday probably then it may be Saree Speak. (Hint, a possible saree drape after ages).
Made an Alfredo creamy mushroom sauce and a tomatoey parmesan enriched Marinara sauce.
Inspired, nay, made ravenous by dear Asoka Basnayake ‘s creamy pasta insta post.
Coated some spaghetti in olive oil, and tossed the rest with basil pesto, garlic, crushed black pepper to accommodate discerning taste buds.
In the rush to get to the next nail biting episode of Money Heist, I only captured the sauces in the least imaginative way possible.

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Canneloni-not.
Indo-Italian?
Spinach wraps, stuffed with steamed spinach, feta and spinach feta hummus. Added some curry powder to the mix.
Splashed on pasta sauce with grated parmesan. And Indian curry spices.
Attempted to artistically arrange the jalapenos.
Baked.
Cut.
Gobbled.
Slept through Money Heist thundering gunfire scene.
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Saturday.
Dusted, wiped mirrors, glasses, bathrooms and the tasks no one else likes to do.
While Husband made a fragrant delicious South Indian vegan version of Thai yellow curry.
Is there even such a dish?
There’s always a first.
Went for long, long walk with husband.
Left instructions with the girls to kindly complete long overdue vacuuming and dusting.
Got home, lunch, music, K drama.
Announced to family that dinner would be special.
Dropped a hint here and there.
“Traffic lights”.
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Inspired by the talented @george.sheeba.
A great way to get little ones to eat their veges.
In this case, my little ones are older than 20.
Traffic lights dosa.
Red, pink actually, dosa batter with beetroot juice.
Green, dosa batter with spinach juice.
Yellow, dosa batter with turmeric powder.

Served with a lemony, coconut, ginger, green chilli, curry leaves, coriander leaves chutney. Tempered with mustard seeds, cummin seeds, hing, dried red chillies, urad dhall/white lentils, curry leaves.

Then, settled down to continue watching Netflix’s Money Heist.

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Now for THE Appam post.

A dinner.
Last week.
Made Appam.
All by myself.
Plain.
Jaggery.
Jaggery and coconut milk.
With Katta sambal (onions, red chilies  lemon juice)
And some leftover okra kuzhambu/gravy.

Then, as a precaution, made gundu dosa from leftover dosa batter.

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This post is in anticipation of my next post which will showcase my appam skills.

 Saturday long weekend dinner.
Some weeks ago.
Felt quite adventurous so made rava gundu dosa with roasted semolina, grated carrots, onions, ginger paste, green chillies, fresh grated coconut, yoghurt.
Served with spicy tomato chutney.

On a Marvel’s movie high, felt quite super human so attempted appam. Thanks to the lovely Sheeba George.
Mixed it to leave to rise.
Had a music class to go to. A hop skip and jump away into my music sanctuary. A quick saree drape and a dash from kitchen to music room.
Returned to find, an over-risen batter.
Husband salvaged it (yes, husbands do come in handy sometimes) by adding warm water, coconut milk, then turned out plain appams, cheese and chilli flakes/black pepper appams.

Light, sumptuous Marvel-lous dinner.

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A Dinner by Daughter#2.
And Husband#1.

Started off being Eggplant Parmigiana.
Brinjals in fridge were rather tiny.
Morphed into
A full blown Lasagna with pasta sheets, topped with cheese and finger licking pasta sauce, minus the bechamel sauce.

With a side of husband’s silver beet and sesame seed crisps

After a lengthy, calming practice and class, settled down to relish the meal and got glued to Netflix’s Money Heist, at Daughter 1’s insistence.

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Craving for a Malaysian nasi lemak meal.
So ransacked fridge and pantry for ingredients.
No cucumbers.
Compensated by upping the veges.

1. Coconut milk and daun pandan/screwpine leaves/rampa, ginger rice.
2. Chilli sambal.
3. Carrots and radish with crushed black pepper.
4. Broccoli stir fried with a smattering of roasted chilli flakes.
5. Soy protein/tvp/textured vegetable protein, meant to turn out as rendang, ended up as stroganoff. Used greek yoghurt instead of sour cream.
6. Roasted peanuts.
7. Fried mushrooms/anchovy-look-alike
8. No cucumbers.

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