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May 9, 2016

Today I was a little more disciplined. I fasted. But that meant coffee with milk in the morning, my Chinese tea, a banana, green apple and orange. I was famished and weak by evening. Oh I did have half cup of coffee at lunch with my fruits and added in some sugar to balance my sugar. Then I made spinach and mango kozhambu. Recipes follow. That went down nicely with rice and the leftover broccoli.

May 7, 2016

I ate dosas, two kinds of pasta with veggies that were home made - with red onions, peppers, tomatos and dun dried with feta. At night I made broccoli and had half of it with dosa, yoghurt and quinoa.

May 7, 2016 - mother's day

Getting back to eating healthy.

Coffee and 3 dosas

Lunch - Quinoa and daal, murungai v kozhambu, cauliflower, yoghurt

April 18, 2016 - Mattar Paneer

Today I had papaya for breakfast and had 4 idlis with mulagai podi and yoghurt

For dinner I made matter paneer
Ground - 1 onion, 6 cloves of garlic, 1 inch of ginger and 2 thai green chillies
Ground - 3 large tomatos
heated 2 tablespoons of oil and added cinnamon sticks, 4 cloves, 2 cardamoms and bayleaf
Added the onion mixture and sautéed for about 2 minutes
to it add 1/2 teaspoon of turmeric, 1 teaspoon chilly powder, 1/2 teaspoon cumin powder, 2 heaped teaspoons of coriander powder and 1/2 teaspoon garam masala
sauté for 2 minutes and to it add the tomato puree and to it add 2 cups of peas, half a green pepper cubed and frozen fried paneer (if paneer is fresh add at the end), let it simmer so it all cooks well.
At the end add 1 heaped spoon of coconut oil.

Had matter paneer with 2 rotis
Had badam milk

After Gita class - had a little rice with rasam and drank half a cup of hot milk

April 17, 2016 - special recipes for Coconut Kozhambu and hot and sour soup

Started the day with coffee, rice uppuma and 2 idlis. Started the Chinese medicine.

For lunch I made coconut kozhambu, salad, kovakkai and we had that we left over spinach

Used white gourd (pushanikkai); boiled it in tamarind water till it cooked; grind half a coconut with red chillies, roasted urad dhal, methi powder, spoon of rice flour and add it to the cooked gourd water - let it come to boil and then season with mustard seeds, curry leaves and hing.

salad
pomegranate seeds, half a cucumber, half a carrot grated, tomato, onion,green chilly chopped fine, squeeze lime


In the evening I made hot and sour soup
Took the remaining tamarind and poured it into the dish where I had sautéed onions, green chillies, ginger and garlic; I chopped half a green pepper and to it added tofu (I had some leftover frozen extra firm) - recommended a softer tofu; also recommended sprouts, mushrooms (which I did not have) - I added chilly powder and salt and let the tamarind lose its raw smell. At the end I added frozen veg (mushroom) dumplings - and let it cook for a few minutes; I just added a teaspoon of sesame oil on top. It was all consumed - my version of hot and sour soup

March 17, 2016 - Wednesday

Breakfast
2 rotis with one egg
coffee

Lunch
rice with pitla with some potatos and cauliflower, 4 chips

dinner with the girls at Chef of India
paneer pakoda, chat papri and some chicken tikka
spinach (with paneer), biryani and 2 pieces of naan

Need to get off white flour and anything sweet or fried