Lemons & Rinds

Date: Aug 22 2011. A boring Monday! 6:55am : Woke up to takeout my husband's lunch box from the refrigerator and hand him over;) 9am: Woke up once again. Our lil champ is up to. 9.30 am We are still in bed playing and chit chatting 9.45 am Brushing and cleaning finally 10 am Breakfast, for me just tea and cereals for my son, while watching some video clips of our past weekend outings (our son's favorite past time) 10:30 am received some phone calls for birthday wishes. 11 am Off to our local Farmer's Market with lil champ. 12:15 pm Lunch of cracked wheat khichdi with pickle and yogurt 12:30 pm some more India calls 2:00 pm Reading and of course 'Facebook' time 3:00 pm Back to the Grocery Store for a cake mix and some dairy products 4:00 pm Lil champ down for a late nap after I meltdown (my mercury levels were soaring and I dumped his leftover M&M pouch in the garbage. Long story cut short) . 4:10 pm started my bday cake baki...

A hearty breakfast of Thalipeeth, 'LONI', Tea This post is dedicated to my dearest friend (I do not need to take her name, she is the only one with a gluten free diet). Thalipeeth takes us back to our roots in rural India. Every family has their own way of making a 'Thalipeeth Bajani', rather it depends from individual to individual about what grains they want to add to Thalipeeth. It serves as an excellent breakfast, or even a quick lunch with lots of veggies, homemade white butter on the side and a glass of butter milk. Offlate I have been using my mom's method of using a plastic carry bag to pat the dough, and a cast iron pan to roast it with enough oil. I have been making Thalipeeth from the flour that my mom had made for me during my last India visit 6 months back. However, now it will be my next challenge to make it at home here in the US. I will typically have to depend on the ingredients on the Indian stores here, and of course the quality of ingre...