Today’s lunch for Aditya was simple. I gave him yoghurt with rice, some strawberries and a goldfish snack. I don’t expect him to eat much from it today. His school has chicken taquitos for lunch. The breakfast snack was graham crackers and banana. I don’t remember what the evening snack is, but it was ok. […]
There was a garage sale in our neighborhood a couple of weeks ago and Shilpi found an unused deep fryer for three bucks there. Being gadget crazy as I am; I could not wait to try it out.
This is a very simple recipe and the chicken was de..li…cious !!
Ingredients
Buttermilk – 1 cup
Boneless chicken thighs– 1 […]
Today’s lunch was Mac and cheese for Aditya. He also got some of the banana bread and gold fish. Today’s vegetable was corn and fruits were strawberries and oranges.
We had a major ‘No Lunch Box’ tantrum today. I guess he feels a bit odd as he is one of the few kids who take a […]
This was supposed to have been a recipe for breakfast bars. The bars turned out to be a bit soft and spongy. So I call it banana bread instead. It’s really tasty, not too sweet and a super grab on the go breakfast for us.
Ingredients
1 1/2 cups flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon […]
Today I added some vibrant colors to Aditya’s lunchbox. Luscious red strawberries and gorgeous green broccoli compliment each other beautifully. I also added some home fried chicken and pretzels from the local whole foods store. Usually these are all of Aditya’s favorites.
He was a bit unhappy about the lunch box yesterday. “I don’t get snacks” […]
Yesterday evening I made some dinner rolls and they were absolutely heavenly. I has substituted light sour cream instead of the butter. I guess that did the trick. There were the best dinner rolls I have ever made.
Ingredients
3/4 cup water
1/4 cup light sour cream
1 egg
1 teaspoon salt
3 cups bread flour
3 tablespoons sugar
2 teaspoons Yeast
Method
Measure all […]
There were enough leftover yesterday and I decide to work on Aditya’s lunch box item’s instead. I baked some dinner rolls and set out to make some oatmeal breakfast bars. It turned out more like a cake, So I just call it bread instead. Aditya loved it, so it is a hit and a keeper. […]
This is a super easy recipe and makes for a great snack.
Ingredients
Paneer – ½ lb
Bisquick baking mix – ½ cup
Buttermilk – ¼ cup
Method
Preheat the oven to 3750.
Cut the paneer into slices about half a centimeter in thickness. You could also cut them into sticks.
Make a batter by mixing the bisquick and buttermilk. It […]
It is also called wheat meat. It is one of the varieties of fake meat that you can get these days. Seitan is made from wheat gluten. A lot of recipes of seitan are also available on the web. This was my first attempt of making it at home. It turned out pretty well. It […]
I made some Seitan over the weekend and made a curry from it. For today’s lunch Shilpi took the Seitan Curry with rice and Yoghurt with rice. He also got half an orange for fruit and cucumber slices and sticks for salad.
Aditya’s box had the yoghurt and rice but not the seitan curry. He got […]
