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Butterflies in the tummy! 🤞

Something's cooking...

A thali to ring in the new year. A keto version for me and a gluten free south indian thali for the rest of the family. Happy New Year folks!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas🎵🎶
The girl made the dough for sugar cookies. We did the rolling, cutting, baking and the little fella joined us for the decorating.. packed and off to the neighbors. Have a merry season folks!

Happy Deepavali folks! ❤️

A little fancy plating never hurts, eh?! The main dish, mushroom pulao is inspired from a chicken dish that is a delicacy in Coastal Andhra Pradesh and this is as close this vegetarian household gets to trying that out 💁😂. I served it with okra-orange pepper curry and a simple raita.

Finally sat down to make the post about the caramelized figs ice cream. The kids declared that this is the winner this year and they can’t wait for fig season to make another batch!

Caramelized Figs
In a 2L MP, add:
* 2tbsp butter
* 400g figs chopped roughly,
* 1/4C jaggery, 1/8tsp nutmeg powder
Cook on high for 8-10 whistles till you can smell caramelization, release pressure, mix everything and allow it to cool

For the ice cream:
Mix 1C milk, 2C heavy cream, 3/4C sugar, 2tsp vanilla till sugar dissolves.

Churn according to ice-cream maker instructions. At around 5 minutes before turning off, add the cooled caramelized figs. Serve right away as a soft serve or let it sit overnight in the freezer for a firmer ice cream.

We also added some homemade honeycomb as a topping. I’ll add a separate post on it with the recipe and details.

Homemade raisins. We are nearing the end of the grapes season and I thought I should try my hand at making raisins. The trick here is to blanch them and let them sun dry (or in the oven). The heat wave last week was enough reason to go the sun drying route. Instead of blanching, I just pressure baked them OPOS style with minimal water. The experiment worked and got a 'delicious' certificate from the little one as well 😍. Going to make a bigger batch this time and fingers crossed that the sun comes back soon.

Pizza night for the family and they choose a keto pizza 💁. Made it into individual portions this time. Fathead dough with almond flour for the base, tomato cream sauce and mixed veggies.

I just realized that I didn't post the pic of the final cake I made last week! duh!
Mango sponge with mango mousse filling, vanilla smbc, fresh mangoes and mango drip!

When you handover the kitchen to the resident 11 and 7yr old, this is how zucchini muffins end up looking 😆. Can we squeeze in another chocolate chip, please?

Keto BisiBelaBath as promised!
https://youtu.be/zQL-wkNOJAs

This was my second meal after I broke my extended fast today (first meal was rasam with mustard microgreens). I made Bisi Bela Bath today for lunch for the family and that tempted me to make myself a keto version. BBB purists, please look away. In my defense however, this bowl was delish - no choice coz you have to take my word for it! 😜😋. Enjoyed it with toasted paneer, ivy gourd fry and snake gourd fry. Will add the recipe for the BBB in a separate post with more of the step-wise pics.

Missed posting my plate when I cooked up the meal using homegrown produce. This was also my OMAD before I started my fast 2 days ago 😊

'Vadai'ya do with a fresh homegrown banana blossom? Vadai o'course!!

Today’s meal is very special. Almost all the produce used today is homegrown.
Carrot -> payasam (sweetened with raw palm sugar)
Cucumber -> kosumalli (salad)
Okra + mustard micro greens -> pachadi (spiced up yogurt)
Green beans + green chilies -> poriyal (dry curry)
Black nightshade greens (manathakkali/chukutti keerai)+green chilies + mustard micro greens -> poriyal (dry curry)
Banana flower + pearl onions + tomatoes -> kuzhambu (stew)
Tomatoes -> rasam (thin stew/soup)
Sunberries (wonderberries) -> kalantha sadham (flavored rice)

With the current heat wave, the kids are thrilled with a frozen bowl for breakfast! Frozen acai, blended with coconut milk and topped with fruit.

Blessings from the garden.. so thankful for our little patch of green and the other adult’s green thumbs. This year our banana plant has flowered and I am thrilled to use the banana flower today. I usually shy away from buying this due to the extra work involved in prepping it, but I can’t wait to do it today! We also realized that we’re getting a lot more bees in the garden for the banana flower - totally didn’t expect that!

Organic homegrown tomatoes, peppers cooked into this delicious gravy. The quail eggs were cooked along with the tomatoes by adding them as a layer on top. OPOS is brilliant when it comes to the perfect yolk consistency. When using regular chicken eggs, one needs to let pressure settle, but in the case of quail eggs, releasing pressure after cooking does the trick. I ground up the cooked tomatoes-peppers-spices mix to get a smooth creamy gravy. I also topped it with some cream for the family and left it dairy free for my portion. The family had it with Peas Pulao flavored with homegrown fenugreek greens and mint. Indian Independence themed lunch 😍🇮🇳
Recipe for this dish below:
In a 2L standardized cooker, add:
1. 2tbsp butter
2. 1.5C chopped tomatoes.
3. 1/2C diced colored peppers
4. 1/2tsp each (salt, ginger-garlic paste, red chili powder), 1/4tsp each (cumin powder, garam masala powder)
5. 12 washed quail eggs arranged as a single layer
Cook on high for 4 whistles. Switch off, release pressure. Remove eggs into a cup of cold water. Grind gravy ingredients to a smooth paste. Peel and halve the eggs, add to the gravy and garnish with crushed dried fenugreek leaves.
Optional add-ins: Nut powders, Cream etc. Can also make the base gravy with a combination of onions and tomatoes instead of just tomatoes.

When you can fit a dozen into the palm of your hands.. we love quail eggs.. cooking these today for an Indian Independence themed lunch.

A simple bowl of comfort. I grew up with rasam and I didn’t appreciate it much as a kid. My daughter on the other hand, loves rasam. Every South Indian household has their own blend of rasam powder that is usually made at home because this needs to be ground to a coarse powder and is better done in small batches. I make mine without lentils to keep it keto compliant. I make my blend and store to use as required, but the below recipe mentions regular powdered spices that you can use instead of the blend.

1. Heat a tbsp of ghee and add 1-2C chopped tomatoes
2. Cook it till tomatoes soften and add salt, 1/4tsp pepper, 1/4tsp red chili powder (or paprika), 1/2tsp cumin powder, 1/2tsp coriander powder, 1/8tsp asafetida (make sure it is gluten free), 5-6 curry leaves and finely chopped cilantro (add the stem portion at this point and reserve the leaves for a little later)
3. Add 1-2C water and let it boil for a few mins. Dilute further with water and just when it starts to foam, switch off. Garnish with more chopped cilantro (leaves part this time).
4. Optionally, add a tempering made with ghee-mustard-cumin seeds.
Want the OPOS version? DM me please!

I serve myself a bowl of this, add a scoop of collagen and top it with mustard microgreens. To be had hot like soup. Tastes even better curled up on a sofa next to a window with a view

Babies are just the cutest things ever! 😍💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚💚