Poha

With temperatures dropping, all I want to do is just snooze and snooze the alarm every 5 mins. I understand that it is not actually letting me rest as I would want to, because it will keep on interrupting me by ringing every other 5 mins. But still I keep doing it every single day. It is just so hard to pull your eyelids apart when you are resting under the cozy blanket. Anyways, winter mornings get better with a warm breakfast. I still recollect Poha to be a delicacy during winters. Because my mom would pluck some fresh coriander leaves to garnish the hot poha. But with the coriander leaves available year round now, I have the luxury to make it whenever I want to. Poha and some steaming chai- isn’t that just the best thing to start your day with . 

I grew up eating poha as a tea time snack on cold and wintery evenings. I was not a great fan then. When I landed in pune for my job, every other day I would choose to get poha for breakfast from the canteen. They were not as good as my mom used to make and hence brought in the realization of the value of home made food.

Sabudana Vada

Rains are here and last weekend it just didn't stop pouring. It was just wet everywhere because the rain is just drizzling throughout. So its cold and the only thing one would want to go is sit idle in a cozy place and read. But one can't. Because when its cold, you tend to get hungry everytime or would crave for something to munch on. We don't usually give in to fried stuff at home. But my lil one likes it and so we do make them sometimes.

Some sabudana had been sitting in my pantry for sometime and everytime I open the cabinet, I think of putting it into use. So finally today, I gave in my laziness and made these vadas for our tea. They were just perfect to pair with some ginger tea.

Sabudana Khichdi

If you have a kid who is a picky eater, you tend to experiment anything to make him/her eat. My picky toddler takes hours to finish the food on certain days esp. when you are running short of time to rush to get somewhere. Mornings are harder when you have to send him to school. Pack for his tiffin, Jacob's lunch etc... which all are easy a task when compared to making Jordan finish his breakfast. So I went on to extending my menu for breakfast. The variety of options means, you don't repeat one dish in like minimum 3 weeks, so it gets easier for him to relish on something that he would have almost forgotten the taste of and would happily eat.

I had never tried sabudana khichdi before. But my idea of extending the breakfast menu options made me try it and we were so glad that we did. Such an easy option that makes your task so easy in the morning to prepare when you have so many other stuff to do. Try this sago khichdi, and let me know if it was a hit at your home.

Aamras

Whenever I see an advertisement of jams spread on chapathi/ Indian flat bread, I always tend to crave for them. My lil one loves the chapathi lathered with jams or cheese or anything and rolled up. I don't know if it is the taste or its the fascination of rolls. I shouldn't mind right, as long as he eats. I personally love the combination of this aam ras spread on chapathi. They are yumm. 

It is most commonly served with puris. Summer brings mangoes with them and  also so many different yummy ways to relish this absolutely juicy fruit. Aam ras is one of the perfect ways to have mangoes. So make it without fail this mango season. 

Mango Shrikhand

The only cousin who had got her vacations falling during the same time of the year as ours was Anu. On one such vacation, she always used to keep mentioning about Shrikhand and how much she loved it. Now I had no clue about it. And then I saw the advertisement of Amul Shrikhand, which otherwise had never seemed to have got attention from my end earlier. Somehow I never had Shrikhand made by Amul but yes other local companies. I have loved it ever since.

Summer can't be said goodbye without having eaten enough mangoes, simply diced or as Mango Shake or in any other form. When I mentioned about making Shrikhand, Jacob wasn't anxious about it even though he has never had it before. But when Jordan turned 4 months, I wanted to make something. Not big, but something simple yet special. Hence, this post happened. So when Jacob came back from work , I gave his share to him(I couldn't wait untill he was back, so ate as soon as it was ready :)) and he didn't even bother to ask me if I needed it (usually he does ask) but scrapped off every bit of it. So its gonna be made more frequent on the coming weeks before the mangoes disappear from the market.