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BUTTER MILK BROTH

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BUTTER MILK BROTH

Requirements:

Butter milk: 500 milli liters

Bengal gram dhal: 1 tea spoon full

Orid dhal: 1 tea spoon full

Green chilies: 5 numbers

White pumpkin: 1 piece

Coconut: 1 half

Oil: 2 tea spoons full

Salt: as per your requirement

Mustard: little or I pinch

Method:

Soak both dhals mentioned in water.

Put a little oil in a vessel and heat it , add mustard, when fried add ground coconut paste, both already soaked dhals, green chilies, salt and a little water and let them all boil.

Cut the pumpkin into small pieces and add to the broth, once it is boiled, remove from fire, when cooled down only add butter milk.

Do not add butter milk while the broth is hot.

You may add brinjal or ladies fingers instead of pumpkin.

Butter milk is having no butter in it. Butter is churned out separately. The remaining liquid is named as such. It is more nutritious as it has all the yeast available in the curd.

TOMATOED BROTH

2006-03-09T20:41:00.000-08:00

TOMATOED BROTH

Requirements:

Tomato: 250 grams
Onions, small: 2 numbers
Garlic cloves: 10 numbers
Coriander leaves: little
Curry leaves: 1 hand full
Coconut: 1 half
Green chilies: 8 numbers
Poppy seeds: 2 tea spoons full
Salt: as per your requirement
Oil: 50 grams
Mustard: little
Orid dhal: little
Turmeric powder: little

Method:

Cut tomato, curry leaves, and coriander leaves into tiny pieces.
Scraped coconut, onion, and poppy seeds into a paste.
Pour little oil into a vessel and roast mustard , orid dhal, Curry leaves, garlic, and green chilies cut into pieces, in it when they are roasted add tomato pieces and water , salt, and then mix them well.
Once boiled remove from fire.

Fine side dish for any kind of meal.
Specifically idly, thosai, hoppers, string hoppers, pittu, parota, and also more suitable for all kinds of rice puddings too.

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Fun for everybody

2006-03-04T22:22:00.000-08:00

VECTRON FLYING SAUCER
This unique radio controlled vectron hovers in the air like some mysterious alien craft. It flies up to 30 feet high and with subtle control of the remote trigger it can be made to hover perfectly still. A launch base is included but with practice it is possible to throw the vectron Frisbee style while pulling the trigger to keep it flying. Red and green LEDs make patterns in the dome as it spins. It requires only a few minutes to charge fully using the adopter provided. Why not try this for yourself (funny isn’t it?)[Available from the internet]{also visit: thinkaloud@msnspaces for philosophies of eminent scholars; vegetarianmess.blogspot.com for vegetarian meals and ideas; mothergoddes.blog.com to learn more about this goddess and also the gene base for ancestry and photographs.}

FRUITARIANS AND VEGETARIANS

2006-02-28T00:46:00.000-08:00

Eat plenty of

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

They just protect us.

They contain almost all the vitamins and minerals required to keep us healthy.

They can easily chase away all unwanted diseases.

Daily have more vegetables and fruits for your betterment.

Potatoes and other yams are excluded here.

IMPORTANT NOTICE

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Important notice:

everything you buy for cooking should be kept safely away from rodents, insects.etc.
Grains , legumes etc should be cleaned and whatever possible to be washed , dried and kept in proper containers.
Vegetables, fruits , leaves, herbs must be cleaned and washed.
When you shallow fry mustards continue until they sputter.

WAY TO FITNESS

2006-02-26T01:49:00.000-08:00

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THE SIMPLE WAY TO FITNESS

You don't have to join a gym, buy a treadmill, or wear a
heart monitor and count your heart beats,
You just have to move your body with some regularity
at a moderate intensity: a brisk WALK, gardening,
cycling, WALKING up steps. It all counts towards
protecting your heart."

http://www.webmd.com/content/Article/110/109808.htm?pagenumber=3

Mochchai kulambu

2006-02-23T23:15:00.000-08:00

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MOCHCHA BEANS KULAMBU

(Indian hot side dish)

Required:

Dried mochchai beans: 100 grams,

Tamarind: 25 grams,

Oil: 50 milli liters,

Onions small: 22 numbers,

Tomato small: 2 numbers,

Chilies powdered: 2 tea spoons full,

Coconut: 1 small half,

Salt: as per taste

Mustard: little

Method:

Roast mocchca with little oil.

Now boil the mochcha

Dilute tamarind in water and add ground coconut and onions and add chilies powder and salt mix them all and add to the mochchai.

Mochchai boiled water too can be added to this mixture.

Instead of chilies powder, you may add chilies a few number while grinding coconut and onions.

If you prefer, you may add brinjals, karunai yam, potatoes, drum stick vegetable and any others depending on your taste.

Put oil in a vessel roast the mustard in it, when they sputters, add them to mochchai.

Let simmer for a few moments then remove from fire.

Try and see, then let us know the results.

SAAMBAAR

2006-02-21T00:51:00.000-08:00

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ONION SAAMBAAR

Requirements:

Onions: 250 grams

Toor dhal: 200 grams

Tamarind: tiny sized

Coriander seeds: 2 tea spoons full

Chilies: 6 numbers

Black pepper: 2 tea spoons full

Cumin seeds; 1 tea spoon full

Fenu Greek: ½ tea spoon

Coconut: small half

Oil: 4 teaspoons full

Salt: as preferred

Mustard: little

Asafetida: tiny piece

Method:

Boil the Toor dhal first.

Clean the onions and shallow fry until red in color

Shallow fry, Chilies, mustard, cumin seeds, fenugreek, and coriander seeds until they become red in color.

Add these with the scraped coco nut and grind them all together.

Add the shallow fried onions first to the boiled dhal and let it boil once.

Now add ground paste with salt, coriander leaves, and curry leaves into the dhal.

Once boiled add stir fried asafetida and mustard and remove from fire.

You may try any main dish with this side dish to add more taste.

STARCH AND FIBRE

2006-02-18T00:19:00.000-08:00

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STARCH AND FIBRE

Take plenty of food rich in starch and fiber during all your meals. More people usually do not take plenty of starchy foods. They are valuable sources of fiber. They could be easily turned into a lot of interesting and variety of meals. Daily you must have three times at least of starchy foods items. Orientals are very lucky in this way. Most space on a plate should be occupied by starchy and vegetable foods.

BUSY BHELA BATH

2006-02-13T23:54:00.000-08:00

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BUSY BHELA BATH

Required:

Rice: 500 grams

Toor dhal: 100grams

Bengal grams: 2 teaspoons full

Oriddhal: 2 teaspoons full

Coriander seeds: 2 teaspoons full

Fenugreek: 1 teaspoonful

Cinnamon bark: tiny piece

Cloves: 5 numbers

Dried chilies: 10 numbers

Asafetida: tiny piece

Coconut: half of a nut

Mustard: 1 teaspoon

Potatoes: 100grams

Salt: as preferred

Tamarind: 1 lime size

Method:

Shallow fry in oil the following: Bengal grams, Coriander seeds, Orid dhal, cinnamon bark, cloves, fenugreek, chilies, asafetida, upto become golden color and then add coconut and grind.

Pour 1 liter of water to a vessel, add toor dhal when boiled, ad rice when boiled, add potatoes cut into pieces, then add tamarind diluted in water.

Now add already ground masaalaa and mix well remove from fire before it gets burnt. Now add shallow fried mustard finally

DHALLED RICE PUDDING

2006-02-09T00:15:00.000-08:00

DHALLED RICE PUDDING

Required:

Rice: 1 Kilo
Toor dhal: 500 grams
Oil: 250 grams
Fenugreek: 4 teaspoons full
Coriander seeds: 4 teaspoonfuls
Mustard: 2 tea spoons full
Cadju: 50 grams
Coriander leaves: little
Curry masaalaa powder: 4 tea spoons full
Cloves: 10 numbers
Poppy seeds: 4 tea spoons full
Tamarind: 75 grams
Dried chilies: 20 numbers
Green chilies: 10 numbers
Coconut: Half
Asafetida:Tiny piece
Curry leaves: 1 hand full
Ghee; 25 grams
Salt: as preferred

Method:

Shallow fry: Chilies, fenugreek, coriander in oil
Scrape the coconut and shallow fry to become gold in color.
Powder all these.

Boil toor dhal in 1 lire of water, add turmeric powder also.
When cooked add six liters of water and add rice also.
When both are fully cooked and ready, add diluted tamarind in water and also salt.
Add shallow fried mustard, dried chilies to the already prepared rice.
Shallow fry cadju in ghee and add.
Now add Masaalaa powder, asafetida powder, coriander leaves and curry leaves
Mix them all well.
Let it cool down before serving.

Almost all these items will be available from Sri Lankan and Indian grocery shops.

EAT VARIETIES

2006-02-04T20:33:00.000-08:00

EAT VARIETIES:
Always you must have variety of different kinds of foods for your palette. There is no one and only food item that can easily provide all the nutrients we require daily for our smooth living in this world.
Exceptional case is the human milk food that gives us all that needed by a baby for the growth during the initial few months. This is provided for the baby only.
Hence it is very important to have more varieties of food for all your meals daily. Also make sure that you include all kinds of foods from the main food groups recommended by the food specialists.
Better consult your Dietician.

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2006-02-03T01:47:00.000-08:00

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ENJOY FOOD

Food must be one of your pleasures in your life on this earth. It should be properly savoured and enjoyed promptly by you. Do not stress your self unnecessarily about worrying about your food. If possible make your own food and enjoy it all by yourself. Always take time to enjoy your food all by yourself along with your family and your friends. Why not try new recipes and new methods of cooking? Even these are also more enjoyable. Send us your experiences and be more and more adventurous. Best of luck.

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2006-02-02T19:54:00.000-08:00

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YOGHURTED RICE PUDDING

Requirements:

Rice: 500grams
Milk: 500 milli litres
Curd / Yoghurt: 2 Tea spoons
Green chilies: 5 numbers
Ginger: 1 small piece
Salt: as per required
Mustard: 1 Tea spoon
Orid dhal: 1 teaspoon
Asafetida: tiny piece
Oil: 4 teaspoons
Curry leaves: One hand full

Method:

Cook rice into a paste form.
Cook the milk and let it cool down.
Pour the milk into the hot rice and mix well
Put oil in a pan shallow fry mustard and add Orid dhal, Asafetida,
Green chilies pieces, Ginger, Curry leaves, shallow fry and add to the rice
Add salt and curd / yoghurt and mix well.

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2006-02-01T01:43:00.000-08:00

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COCONUTTY RICE PUDDING [II]

Required:

Raw rice: 500 grams
Coconut: 1 number
Cadjunuts: 75 grams
Cardamom; 5 numbers
Curry masaalaa mixture: a pinch
Salt as per your preference
Ghee: 75 grams

Method:

Soak the rice in water.
Extract milk from the coconut as usual. Add water 1litre, to the coconut milk.
Pour this into the rice cooker, once boiled add rice and cook as usual.
Shallow fry Cadju, cardamom, curry masala, curry leaves, salt in ghee.
Put the cooked rice into this mixture, mix well, and serve.

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2006-01-30T20:41:00.000-08:00

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TAMARINNED PUDDING

Required:

Rice: 1 Kilo
Tamarind: 100grams
Dried red chilies: 15 numbers
Turmeric powder: 1 tea spoon full
Asafetida: one tiny piece
Splitted Orid dhal: Two tea spoons full
Splitted chick peas: 50 grams
Ground nuts: 50 grams
Gingelly oil: 250 grams
Salt: according to your preference.
Curry leaves: one hand full
Mustard: one pinch
Roasted ground nuts: 50 grams

Preparation:

Cook the rice as usual.
Spread on a plate to cool.
Dilute tamarind I water as to become a thick paste.
Shallow fry: mustard, splitted chick peas, splitted orid dhal, red chillie pieces, Asafetida, curry leaves.
Add: Tamarind paste, salt, turmeric powder, and mix well and let again boil.
Remove from fire and mix with the cooked rice.
Add roasted ground nuts and again mix well.

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2006-01-28T22:39:00.000-08:00

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VEGETABLE BIRIYANI

Required:

Biriyani rice: 1 kilo

Coconut: 1 number

Onions: 250 grams

Green chillies: 50 grams

Ginger: 1 small piece

Coriander leaves: one hand full

Mint leaves: 1 hand full

Cauli flower: 1 bunch

Margarine: 150 grams

Potatoes: 100 grams

Beans: 100 grams

Knorcol: 100 grams

Carrots: 100 grams

Garlic: 100 grams

Ground nut oil: 100 grams

spices of al kinds as per your preference

Saffron to add colour as preferred [little would do]

Salt as per you prefer

Water: 2 litres

Process:

Soak the rice.

Make chips out of all vegetables [you may add more vegetables as you like]

Ginger, garlic, spices, should be made into small pieces by pounding on them.

Coriander and mint leaves may be cut into thin strips.

Green chilies should be grinded into a paste.

Coconut too same.

Take big pan put margarine and oil together and place it on the cooker.

Once oil is warmed, shallow fry: ginger, spices, garlic

Add onion, green chilies, coriander leaves, mint leaves too.

You will get a fine aroma.

Add, vegetables, saffron, salt, coconut paste.

Now pour 2 liters of water.

Once the water starts boiling add the soaked rice without water.

VEGETABLE BIRIYANI

Required:

Biriyani rice: 1 kilo

Coconut: 1 number

Onions: 250 grams

Green chillies: 50 grams

Ginger: 1 small piece

Coriander leaves: one hand full

Mint leaves: 1 hand full

Cauli flower: 1 bunch

Margarine: 150 grams

Potatoes: 100 grams

Beans: 100 grams

Knorcol: 100 grams

Carrots: 100 grams

Garlic: 100 grams

Ground nut oil: 100 grams

spices of al kinds as per your preference

Saffron to add colour as preferred [little would do]

Salt as per you prefer

Water: 2 litres

Process:

Soak the rice.

Make chips out of all vegetables [you may add more vegetables as you like]

Ginger, garlic, spices, should be made into small pieces by pounding on them.

Coriander and mint leaves may be cut into thin strips.

Green chilies should be grinded into a paste.

Coconut too same.

Take big pan put margarine and oil together and place it on the cooker.

Once oil is warmed, shallow fry: ginger, spices, garlic

Add onion, green chilies, coriander leaves, mint leaves too.

You will get a fine aroma.

Add, vegetables, saffron, salt, coconut paste.

Now pour 2 liters of water.

Once the water starts boiling add the soaked rice without water.

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2006-01-28T01:53:00.000-08:00

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Think how delicious

Simple slice of a luscious ripe melon
Sumptuous aspharagus tips
Fragrant exotic fruits
Fresh salad laeaves
Delicious Sushi
Sweet and ripe tomatoes
Good quality Italian pasta
A bowl of live, low fat natural Yoghurt.

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2006-01-26T01:25:00.000-08:00

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TOMATOED RICE PUDDING

Required:

Rice - 1Kilo
Tomatoes - 500 grams
Onions - 250 grams
Chillies powder - 3 tea spoons full
Green chillies - 5 numbers
Corriander leaves - little
Garlic - little
Curry leaves - one hand full
Orid dhal - 2 tea spoons full
Mustard - 1 tea spoon full
Ground nut oil - 150 grams
Salt - as preferred

Process:

Cook rice as usual. Spread it on a tray to cool down. Pour a little oil onto a pan and warm it. Add mustard to the warm oil. then add Orid dhal. Roast the dhal until it turns into red colour. Now add green chillies, chipped onion pieces, garlic, corriander leaves , Curry leaves and roast them too. Add tomatoe pieces. Add chillie powder and salt. Mix all these wth the cooled rice.

enough for five.

See the rice is a s usual.
Only the mixture varies.
You just add your taste as preferred and spices to enhance same.
Turn it into any shape you may prefer.

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2006-01-24T21:22:00.000-08:00

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COCONTTY RICE PUDDING

Requirements:

Raw rice - 1 Kilo
Coconut - 1 number
Green chillies - 10 numbers
Cadju nuts - 100 grams
Margarine- 100 grams
Asofitida - ti ny piece
Salt - as preferred
Orid dhal - 50 grams
Chick peas, solitted - 50 grams
Curry leaves - one hand full

Preparation:

Cook the rice as usual. Spread it on a tray to cool.
Place a pan on the cooker, pour a little oil, add scraped coconut and roast it until goldened colour.
Warm the margarine in the pan seperately, add mustard, orid dhal, chick peas.
Cut to pieces, the chillies and curry leaves, add these also to the margarine.
Roast these until the all become reddish in colour.
Mix Powdered salt, rice, coconut and others together.

enough for five.

may replace margarine with butter.
those who cannot eat chillies can avoid it.
Make the mixture into any shapes you prefer.

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2006-01-23T19:31:00.000-08:00

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LIMELY RICE PUDDING

Requirements:

Rice - 1 Kilo
Limes - 4 numbers
Green chillies - 10 numbers
Gingely oil - 100 grams
Asoefitida - minute piece
Kadalai grams - 50 grams
Orid dhal, splitted - 50 grams
Curry leaves - 0ne handfull
Turmeric powder - one pinch
Mustard - one pinch
salt - according to your taste

Method:

Cook the rice as usual. Spresd on a large plate to cool. Make juice out of lime. Add little water, turmric powder, and salt.
Pour alittle oil in a pan, when oil is warm and ready add some mustard, Orid dhal, kadalai dhal, Pieces of Chillies and roast them upto become gold in colour. Now add lime juice, once boiled remove from fire.
Mix lime juice and rice together and serve.

Enough for five.

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2006-01-22T23:04:00.000-08:00

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We are what we eat. Our body needs balanced diet, which provide all necessary vitamins, minerals, protein,carbohydrates, fiber and fats; so as to maintain our health and our well being . Consider doing more home cooking, using simple, unprocessed ingredients. Make your own fruits and vegetables and juices and salads from them.

MILK RICE

2006-01-10T20:00:00.000-08:00

MILK RICE
(COOKED)

Requirements

Raw rice 500 grams
Jaggery (Sugar cane) 500 grams
Milk 1 litre
Cadju 50 grams
Cardamom 5numbers
Salt as preferred
Ghee 2 tea spoons

Method

Pour the milk in the rice cooker. add washed rice to milk. When cooked add jaggery .Roast the cadju in ghee and add to cooked rice. Mix well. When everything properly cooked add salt and cardamom and mix them well put in a tray and cut into shapes as you prefer

Notes:

Real milk rice should be without any added flavours.
Simply cook the rice in the milk.
Cook the rice first in water and at the time of simmering add the milk, which is the far easiest.

Cooked white rice

2006-01-09T19:32:00.000-08:00

Cooked white rice

Needed

Raw rice – 500 grams
Green grams – 100 grams
Ghee – 50 grams
Black pepper - 2 Teaspoons
Seeragam – 2 teaspoons
Cadju – 20 grams
Salt - according to your preference

Method

Boil 5 cups of water and add green grams. When fully cooked, add rice, when fully cooked add salt. Remove from fire, mix well, and keep aside. Grind black pepper and seragam together and add to the rice and mix well. Roast cadju in ghee and sprinkle.

Notes

May use butter in place of ghee.

This can be easily converted into a pudding by placing in small dishes full and press then let the content on a plate.

Alternatively you may place the entire content on a plate spread it, shape it then cut into pieces as you prefer.

Spread a little ghee onto the containers, so that it won’t stick to them.

FRUITS AND VEGETABLE

2006-01-06T23:22:00.000-08:00

FRUITS AND VEGETABLES

Eat more fruits and vegetables for your health and well being.
Several people advise to do so.
How many of us are adopting this?
One reason they become costlier day by day.
We have to buy them from the market.
We have no place to grow them all by our selves.

Let us have fruits for our break fast.
Only fruits and nothing else.
No making juice out of them adding sugar and water, it is useless.
Eat raw fruit removing the skin and seeds.
Other wise the purpose is lost.

Even in the case of vegetables, let us eat them raw, wherever possible.
Have them for the dinner.
Select the vegetables suitable for vegetable salad.
Don’t make salad.
Clean them, skin them, remove seeds and Slice them.
You can add curd or yoghurt, however you call it.

In case of both you may add a little lime juice if you prefer but not with yoghurt.
Ban salt, sugar or cream.

You will feel lighter than ever within a few days.

Have your normal lunch as usual.
Better avoid oils, salt, chillies for the purpose of your health.

If you find your taste buds are strong and you require more variety of flavours.
OK!
Add whatever you want.
Eat whatever you want.
Just don’t worry about anything.
There is no limit for anything.
Be happy and be jolly.

DEFINE VEGETARIAN

2005-12-31T20:04:00.000-08:00

DEFINE VEGETARIAN

Many people of the world look at vegetarianism as largely as a matter of economics.
People choose to be a vegetarian for reasons other than the economics.
Parental preferences, religious beliefs, lifestyle factors, and health issues are among the most common reasons for choosing to be a vegetarian.
Certain others choose to be a vegetarian out of concern over animal rights or the environment.
Lot of people has more than one reason for choosing to be a vegetarian.

Vegetarian and Semi-Vegetarian

Different people follow different forms of vegetarianism.
A true vegetarian eats no meat at all, including chicken and fish.
A lacto-ovo vegetarian eats dairy products and eggs, but excludes meat, fish, and poultry. A lacto vegetarian eats dairy products but not eggs.
An ovo vegetarian eats eggs but not dairy products.
How about yourself?

Vegan

A stricter form of vegetarianism is a vegan (pronounced: vee-gun or vee-jan) diet.
Not only are eggs and dairy products excluded from a vegan diet, so are animal products like honey and gelatin. (Used to prepare Jelly)
There are a surprising number of foods that you'd think might be vegetarian but aren't - foods like gelatin, which are made using meat byproducts;
Cheese, which is made using an animal-based product called rennet,
and sauces such as Worcestershire sauce.
Vegans avoid all these foods.

Macrobiotic diets fall into the vegan category.

Macrobiotic diets restrict not only animal products but also refined and processed foods, foods with preservatives, and foods that contain caffeine or other stimulants.

Following a macrobiotic or vegan diet could lead to nutritional deficiencies in teens,
who need to be sure their diets include enough nutrients to fuel growth, particularly protein and calcium. If you're interested in following a vegan or macrobiotic diet it's a good idea to talk to a registered dietitian. He or she can help you design meal plans that include adequate vitamins and minerals.

Some people consider themselves semi-vegetarians and eat fish and maybe a small amount of poultry as part of a diet that's primarily made up of vegetables, fruits, grains, legumes, seeds, and nuts. A pesci-vegetarian eats fish, but not poultry.

PUDDINGS

2005-12-29T22:41:00.000-08:00

PUDDINGS

This is one of the basic cooking methods of grains, legumes, yams etc. Other methods, of course we have already looked into. They are porridge and paste making. While making porridge we add more water for the kernels to be cooked and get diluted in the water or milk. We will use less water for making a paste out of the same. Now for pudding, we add less water than the paste. In case of flours steaming is adopted in place boiling. We use grains like wheat, rice, corn, millet and similar other small grains. All kinds of legumes and yams containing more starch are used in this way. Some time make flour out of these ingredients and convert them into puddings.

Normally we boil the grains and simply drain the water away. Instead of this we allow the water to be simmering. Now the grains will stick to each other. You may give them desired shapes like round, square, triangle, ball like, and every thing possible according to your imagination. Natural flavours can be simply added without much effort.

Ad any flavour you wish or simply bland people eat this preparation. Add milk in place of water. Add colours.

More oriental recipes you may expect in the future.

SEASONAL GREETINGS TO ALL

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2005-12-28T20:20:00.000-08:00

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Edible pastes

Earlier we looked at a little on porridges, before going onwards to
Puddings we will have a look around at pastes of different kinds.
Pastes come in between porridge and puddings.

Porridges have more fluid content. Puddings are just the opposites.
Pastes are not much thick and not too watery. More suggested to
Children, elders and sick people. easy to swallow and easy to digest.

Made from most kinds of grains, legumes, yams and their flours.
Palmyra sprouts also famous for making this type of recipe.
Rice flour is most frequently used.

Full recipes will be submitted as and whenever possible

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2005-12-28T03:03:00.000-08:00

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Few recipes on Porridge.

(continues)

Rice and Green grams Porridge

Required items Quantity

Milk 250 ml
Raw rice 250 gms.
Green grams 250 gms
Sugar 500 gms
Cadju 50 gms
Dried grapes 200 gms
Cardamom 10 no
Ghee 2 Teaspoons

Method

Clean the rice then wash , add 6 cups of water and boil in a pot. Mean while roast the green grams up to reddish colour, then add to cooked rice and sugar paste, milk and cadju, dried grapes, roasted in ghee. Finally after removing from fire add powdered cardamom

Porridge with flakes

Required items Quantity

Flakes 250 grams
Sugar 250 grams
Ghee 2 tea spoons
Cadju 25 grams
Cardamom 6 numbers
Milk 250 milli litres

Method

Roast rice flakes with ghee in a pan, grind them. Boil water and add ground flakes. Pour milk on them. Add sugar. Add cadju roasted in ghee. When fully cooked remove from fire. Now add cardamom powder.

Substitute butter in place of ghee.

Few recipes on Porri

2005-12-26T20:25:00.000-08:00

Few recipes on Porridge.

Milky Porridge

          Required items     Quantity
                                   Method
          Milk               500 ml.
          Sugar               400 gms
          Cadju                 50 gms
          Raw rice            50 gms.
          Cardamom                 8 no
          Ghee                      2 Teaspoons

Place one cup of water and milk each in a pot and boil them together. Raw rice to be roasted in ghee and added to the boiling pan. Add sugar after well cooked. Rice must be nearly diluted form. Roast cadju in ghee, then break them into pieces and add to the mixture. Pound the cardamom a little and add after removing the boiling pan from fire.
Green grams Porridge

          Green grams          250 gms
          Sugar               250 gms
Milk               250 ml
Cardamom              5 no
Ghee                   2 Teaspoons full
Cadju                 25 grams

Clean and roast the green grams, put them in a pan and add water of four cups full and boil. When the grams become nearly diluted add sugar diluted in water or golden syrup. Then add milk and cadju nuts roasted in ghee. When finished remove from fire and add powdered   cardamom

Dear friends

2005-12-25T21:36:00.000-08:00

Dear friends,

After intorducing you all to my porridge making, I went in search of porridge over the internet.
I came across this site which I find very good but only thing they have non vegetarian items
also included. Any how you may visit this place and enjoy the vegetarian recipes and the
explanation on porridge including thesaures extract there.

http://www.goldenspurtle.com/porridge.htm

Another wonder I came across about this porridge.In Scotland they are having an annual
Porridge competition. Why don't we try to participate in this competition and win prizes.

http://www.goldenspurtle.com/

It seems that the Scots are specialists in porridge, and there is a book on porridge
also published.

In the meantime I am in receipt of a few Poridge making recepes , which are sure,
very simple, only thing you have to wait a bit until every thing is ready.

Another thing I wish to mention about he initiation of this blog. I was highly interested
about blogging and suddenly came across this facility. One of mystep brother wanted
details about vegetarianism.so i started this. Hoping you all will assist. I simply thought
to start with Porridge as it is the basic meal in almost all countries. I introduced only our
tradition. Now it is growing into a big thing.

Porridge has a long history, even from Roman times. So it is becoming more and more
interesting.
Porridge is not so that simple. It is an ancient thing, with a long history. It has connections
with the Archaeology too.

Making Porridge

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Making PorridgeWhat is a porridge? How do you make it?Normal Porridge is a mixture of water and grain kernels boiled togetherand drinking, being most poor peoples diet.It is a good diet for people recovered from illness. When completing fasting also more suitable. Islam members drink this in the evening tojust to break the day time fasting. After having the porridge in the evening. Then only they will have their dinner daily.While you prepare the porridge from rice, clean it first then wash it well. Boil the water. Place the washed rice into boiling water and cover with a lid. Rice will dilute with the water but do not allow to become thick. After cooling you can easily drink it.This type of porridge is also given to people inside jail. They never add salt to it.While you prepare it , you may add salt or sugar or any sweetenerand any flavour you may prefer.This is only a basic preparation.Some people add milk after the rice is well cooked. Cow milk or powdered milk, condensed milk, Coconut milk, even Soya milk can be used.If any one else tried any other milk , please inform us so that every one will get to know.Green gram (Mung gram) too could be added for flavour. It must be added before the rice and let it be cooked thoroughly for easy digestion.Splitted and roasted Mung gram will add a fine aroma and palatable taste.One hand full of rice and one hand full of Mung grams will be sufficient for one person.Add enough water and milk suitable to your taste.Normal rice can easily handle the job.Rice flakes can substitute the rice it the will have to be soaked in water before cooking. over night soaking is more preferred for preparation of a breakfast.When grains and legumes are added together their nutrition value add up to high.Soya can be easily substituted to Green grams.Semolina, Vermicelli, Spaghetti, Macaroni, Short macaroni, noodles, Bread crumps,Oat flakes, corn flakes and wheat flakes too will do the job finely.While adding sweeteners like sugar or anything else You may add fruits and nuts according to your preference.Dried fruits dried grapes etc. and cadju nuts, almonds, are mostly preferred.Even pine apple, Carrots, Jack fruit, Mango, Dates, bananas, apple, are being added according to the taste. Sweet toddy from Kittul, Palmyra, Coconut are being used to sweeten this preparation.In Kerala (India) Certain kind of plantain is powdered and used to prepare this recipe.Different kinds of flours (of different grains) too could be used similarly and made into a paste.If this paste is thickened it will be like pudding.Detailed preparation methods with the accurate measurements will follow.

Vegetarian thinking

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We welcome everyone to participate in vegetarian cooking , recipes, meals and dieting. Further information will follow