Myriad Musings

AND for all seasons for that matter :) It can be made with any grains on hand, I have made it with broken wheat, bansi rava, regular rava, broken rice, broken millet, oats, flattened red rice (aval), flattened white rice, broken maize and broken corn!  I have only tried mixing rava and wheat, not any other grain. It can be made very very simply, just a tadka of mustard, jeera, green chillies, urad daal, chana daal, curry leaves and hing; If you prefer the non-satvic version, lots of onions. It can be made with a veritable garden of vegetables, the so-called english variety only though, carrots, peas, cabbage, capsicum, tomato, potato.  And of course coconut.  Coconut is the chocolate of the dessert world.  It can improve Anything and Everything. It can make it sweet or spicy, it is just that the sweet version has a different name, Kesari.  Together with coffee it form the ubiquitous SKC (sweet kara coffee) kannadigas seek in the evening. Some versi...

I know oats/ragi porridge or the Kellogs Speical K Cereal are decent breakfast choices and even pretend to enjoy them..  But I really really love basic South Indian breakfasts, Idli Vadai Sambhar, masal dosa, utappam, poori all made in the traditional way.  Ragi dosa is nice,  nothing wrong with it, but Regular white rice dosa is comforting and awesome all at once.  I do want to try to wow everyone at home with excellent breakfast choices made with one of the healthier grains/proteins.  Now pay attention to the caveat.   There is a huge disconnect between a grain/protein being declared heart healthy or diabetes friendly or gluten-free and how it actually ends up being cooked and consumed in the kitchen.   Someone needs to put a disclaimer in headline font :  Healthy ONLY WHEN COOKED AND CONSUMED WITHOUT BUTTER/SUGAR/SOME OFF THE SHELF JUNK or even better: healthy ONLY WHEN NOT CONSUMED, JUST VIEWED AND SALIVATED then even ice cream wo...

I now have a challenge to the food blogging community at large. Help me come up with a set of easy to prepare menu items to tempt my son's taste buds. These are my constraints: 1. Vegetarian 2. Commonly available ingredients only - I live in Chennai, TN 3. Should be good to eat after sitting for 4-5 hours in an unrefrigerated lunch box 4. Should not take more than 45 minutes to prepare. 5. Should be easy to eat for a 5 year old - no messy burritos type foods. 6. Should be nutritious (I know, that goes without saying) 7. No frying 8. Shd preferably have passed a kid's test for acceptability ;) Please post your recipes or links to the aforementiond recipes by the end of July i.e 27th July Thanks a lot! Todays lunch was almost successful - the lil darling's only complaint when he got off his school van was, he didnt have enough time to eat. Pasta Salad 1 cup of pasta 1 cup of dried chickpeas, soaked over night and pressure cooked until soft 1/...