Kale, Quinoa and Oats Veggie patties

1 Russet potato- peeled and diced
1/4 cup-corn
3 -4 Tbsp quinoa
Veggies:
1/4 cup chopped green beans
1/4 cup- canned black beans
bell pepper- all colors, quarter size diced into cubes
1 carrot- diced to cubes
quarter size onion- finely diced
1-2 garlic pods- grated or crushed
small ginger piece- grated or crushed
Alternatively-can use 1tsp ginger garlic paste
1 cup- chopped fresh kale. can use frozen kale or spinach if needed

In a saucepan, add 1tsp oil- Add tge onion, ginger, garlic and saute lightly till onions are golden. Add the rest of the veggies and saute. Add little turmeric, chilli powder, cumin, coriander and garam masala. Add little salt to taste.
I also used crushed kasuri kathi to enhance the flavor.
Cool the veggies and blend well. Add 3-4 Tbsp quick oats while blending to make it into a dough consistency.

Boil potatoes with corn and quinoa separately. Mash with potato masher. Add salt to taste. Mix with the blended veggies. Add some rice flour to the mixture to act as binder.

Make into patties and toast it on both sides. Serve with lettuce, tomatoes and cucumber on your favorite bun/bread with a side of fresh cut fries.

The rest can be freezed for later use. I was able to make a total of 8 burger patties.

Homemade Chawanprash

HOMEMADE IMMUNITY BOOSTER:
Recipe by my sister Smt. Shanthi Chandramouli.

 400 gms of grated jaggery. 500 gms of peeled ginger. Cut the ginger into small pieces and put it in a cooker alongwith  18 to 20 seedless dates, two inches cinnamon piece (don't add a thick stick), 4 cloves, 18 to 20 badam, 50 gms of gasagasa (poppy seeds), 5 black pepper, one tsp jeera, 1/2 tsp dhaniya ,one nutmeg or if powder 1/2 tsp. Add little water to submerge the contents, Close the lid and wait for 4-5 whistles.  After it cools, filter and blend the ingredients to smooth paste in a mixer. Add little water if necessary.
Add water to the grated jaggery along with 2-3 crushed cardamom pods. Boil to melt the jaggery. Strain the liquid into another container and boil till you get kambi paggu(1 string pull). Add the paste to the caramelized jaggery along with 20 raisins and keep stirring. In between keep adding two spoons of ghee till it gets a nice sheen. It will form a round ball and not stick to the vessel. Just taste and  if required add ghee.
Otherwise let it cool and keep it in a glass container. Stores well in refrigerator. Just take a  small ball of it once a day preferably in the morning
Its good for common cold or cough  and  a remedy for Corona

The Grass Elephant

The Grass Elephant with Golden Blades 

Watercolors and Gold Flakes on handmade paper

The grass Elephant although seem unusual yet establish connection.

“It is the grass of the field, most frail of all things, that supports all life all the time!”. 

The green Elephant in my artwork is a wise spirit, with exemplifying power and strength. It represents a new, improved, and positive nature that reconnects us with our own perspectives, past, and future. 

With the golden tusks, we now have the opportunity to plow through our challenges, resolve our questions, celebrate our being, and journey our path to ‘home’!

These times (COVID-19 pandemic) are sure not easy but have amazingly strengthened us to focus, protect, and recognize the power of love and contentedness.

Inspired from https://nature.disney.com/elephant

The Brush Mashup

💅🙌

Brush Mashup is where we all locked where we are connected in one movie, passing on our 'brush Love' to different houses, communities, provinces, states and countries. Isnt this ammazing ?👌💥

This is pending completion, waiting for the brush to reach more girls! 💓💛

The Year End Pic

The RCZ Pic 1996-99 Batch

The group pic that lead to identification and knowing where abouts of more girls. Not to forget recollection of all our princi and teachers of all departments - Microbiology, Genetics and Nutrition.

Thanks to the pic, some of us managed to dig through our contacts and added the missing girls to Whats App group!

Post a load of messages, we had another catching up call, this time on Google Meet. Joining from different time zones and countries - India, Saudi, Canada, and US. 

Everybody thinks 20 years later everybody looks the same! 😍

Sunday, July 5th 2020

Online Antakshari

These days we are up to exploring our singing talents. While some of us are naturally gifted, some are surprise packages. Birds of the same feather flock and also sing together 👍💖

Season 2  -

The night singers

Our impromptu singing session within a session, got the cool singers out of us!

To the charming hero- Rishi Kapoor

It was heartbreaking to hear of his demise. Great lived Rishi Kapoor!

Back to Clay pot

Trying to get back to good old ways of cooking. This trial, first time using clay pot on induction glass stove gave good results including yummy earthy flavour.

Some notes:

1. Curing the clay pot before cooking is very important
2. Low flame doesn’t mean slow cooking! My dish was quicker than I thought!
3. Pots turn black or darker at the bottom and is ok
4. Hand washing the pot is important. I use baking soda or powder. No soap
5. My pot has handles, it was ok to hold bare hands while cooking
6. Use only silicon or wooden ladles
7. Friend mentioned, do not use clay pots for deep frying

Happy cooking !