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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

March 15 - 2015 - rice noodles

Tuesday fast
1 box of blueberries
1 cup of pomegranate
2 avocados with lemon and salt

Night dinner
rice noodles sautéed with
1 cup cabbage
half cup dill
1 cup lettuce
1 green peeper
2 cups of broccoli
half cup of chopped dill
10 garlic cloves
2 inches ginger
4 green chillies
3/4 extra firm tofu - lightly fried

chilly paste
sesame seeds
sesame oil

sautee garlic, ginger then add all veggies; fry tofu separately; cooked noodles, mix with veggies, toasted sesame, chilly paste and add sesame oil - mix well - put on low heat for 5 - 10 minutes and cover and leave. can chop and add jalapeno.

March 14, 2016 - Monday

Breakfast
soaked almond and peanuts half a cup
1 dosa with chutney

Lunch
Salad (from Sunday)
whole wheat bagel with peanut butter

dinner
saag aalu and beans with chapathi
adai with sulo and kris

March 13, 2016 - mixed vegetable kootu and moong salad

Lunch at home for friends
potato cauliflower
shallot vetta kozhambu
rasam

kootu - 2 Bangalore kathrikkai, 1 carrot, 1/2 cup peas, 2 green chillies, 1 cup of coconut (grated), cumin and 3 karandis - tur daal

yummy salad - sprouts (moong) - 1 cup, 1 cup pomegranate, 1 green apple, half a long cucumber, half a tomato, half an onion, 2 green chillies (remove seeds), coriander, toasted walnuts about half a cup, lemon, pepper and salt

yoghurt
banana bread and kala jamun
herbal tea

Herbal tea

Ginger tea

Night
salt and vella adai with butter

March 12, 2016

Morning
Coffee and banana
At the temple - a little sambar, cabbage, eggplant, rasam and yoghurt - half a cup of boiled rice

half Punjabi Samosa and a slice of the banana bread I baked that afternoon (2 eggs, 3/4 cup brown sugar, 2.5 ripe bananas, vanilla and rose syrup, half a cup of butter beat and seive 2 cups white flower with 1.5 teaspoons of baking soda and


Night dinner
Jerusalem restaurant
mostly salad plate with veggies and no starch but some cheese
half a pizza slice, a little cheesy pasta (2 tablespoons)
2 small cups of chocolate mouse and some sevaiya (vermicelli, sugar and cream)

Lots of water consumed

March 11, 2016

Breakfast - badam and peanuts soaked
2 avocados with lemon
1 methi parotta with tofu dip (indulgence)

lunch
rice (half cup)
beans and potato/cauli
1 cookie (indulgence)
1/2 bagel (indulgence)
half coffee

dinner
adai with onions (2)with kothamalli thogayal (took stalks and some leaves, 4 dried chillies, 2 tablespoons of urad daal, hing), half a mango - dlish

March 10, 2016 - pitla

badam and peanuts soaked in water (quarter cup)
1 banana and green apple
warm water with lemon
1 cup of coffee

bittermelon, drumstick and kadalai - pittla
soak tamarind, add 6 teaspoons of sambar podi, 2 bittermelons, 2 drumsticks and two table spoons cooked black channa daal, hing
1 cup of tur daal (cooked)
curry leaves, coriander, season with mustard seeds
Add coriander, chilly and channa daal powder) - dry roast and grind - 2 heaped teaspoons

rasam, beans and potato and cauliflower
curd and rice

March 9, 2014 - carrot soup

Daytime

Peanuts and badam
Banana

Veggie Hoagie at Sorrento for lunch

Carrot soup

1 bag baby carrots
2 inch stick of ginger
(cook both in Hawkins)
half a can of tomatoes (Costco)

Puree
sambar podi in oil

Ate two bowls of soup 1.5 rotis
buttermilk

March 8, 2016 - saag potato

Daytime

almonds, walnuts and raisins
banana
orange


Saag potato
1.5 onions cut, half a can of tomato, 3 green chillies, 2 inch ginger, 8 cloves of garlic
Saute and add to it turmeric, chilly powder, coriander powder and garam masala
Add one small box of washed baby spinach
Cook and when cooked turn off stove and puree

Boil potatoes, peel and cut into cubes, in some olive sauté with cumin seeds, turmeric and salt

Add to the spinach puree

Ate rotis with saag potato and moong salad (March 6, 2016)
Drank a glass of buttermilk

March 7, 2016 - beans

Day time Fruits - apple, avocado, soaked badam and peanuts

Beans Cut the (Costco) tender beans and cook in Hawkins cooker; heat olive oil, sputter mustard seeds, hing, 2 green chillies, curry leaves, add the beans and then grated coconut

Salad Moong sprouts, green apple, onion, tomato, chillies, cucumber, chopped coriander

Had the above with rasam and rice

Drank a glass of buttermilk