Myriad Musings

It is not just kids who get their heads turned by TV. My hubby recorded and watched half a dozen Seinfeld episodes and then started longing for the zillion cereal boxes he saw stalked on the fridge.  Probably harking back to student days at UT Austin or pre-baby working days in Dallas.  I am on a minimum Carbon Footprint endeavour, I decided to make Granola at home and keep bottles of it stashed away for the pre-breakfast, post-dinner hunger pangs. My younger son insists on a bowl everyday.  Older prefers Chocos which are a rare treat. The recipe is very simple: 1 cup oats, NOT the quick cooking kind 2 cups of Millet/Brown Rice Flakes(Aval)/Maize Flakes or combination 1 cup of popped Amaranth seeds (Optional) 1/2 cup Oat/Wheat Bran or 1/3 popped bengal gram ground to a fine powder 1/4 cup flax seeds ground to a powder 1/3 cup almonds/walnuts/pistachio or combinations 1/3 cup sunflower seeds/ melon seeds/ pumpkin seeds (Optional) 1/2 cup light honey 1/4 cup s...

Life with Gau is a constant tussle between developing good habits for work, play and food and letting him simply have fun.  Whether the struggle is at its most intense when it comes to regulating game time or food intake is a toss up.  Weekends exemplify both.  He has firm ideas about what I should cook and serve. He considers it blasphemous that I add beans when I make burger patties for him.  He thinks baking fries is a terrible idea.  He will never try kanji or ragi dosa unless I bribe or yell.... You get the idea? Saturday mornings start very lazy for us and then there is a rush to get Gau to his music class by 10.  He usually insists on eating out Sat morning, eating just the Pooris in Sangeetha without touching the vegetable laden side dishes.  The battle is stacked against me 3 to 1.  Today ash had a very long sleep in and I was able to persuade Gau to come into the kitchen and help me make Pear Pancakes. An adaptation of Kim Boyce's Pe...