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[Wibha]

endha vibin

So you want to make it differently and impress her ?

endha vibin-ah

i don't wanna make sundal amma will make iit for me :P it's too easy for me en level-e vera

[Lambretta]

Can do it easily: put the vegetable pieces in the pressure cooker, add a little water, turmeric powder, jeera powder, chilli powder, salt, and chopped small onion fried with urad dhal tand cook for 2 whistle time!

PP ma'm! 'will try it tomorrow as 'dont hav much patience/inclination to do it today....!

[Shakthiprabha.]

Dear all,

Which is the best method to make black/green tea?

a) To boil the tea bags along with water or

b) to boil the water and let the tea bags steep?

Which method retains more benefit?

I would be too obliged to receive answers at the earliest.

Thankyou.

[NOV]

1. bring water to almost boil (dont use boiling water) in a pan.

2. in a mug, place your tea bag and then pour the hot water.

3. let it rest for 2 mins max and then remove tea bag.

4. allow tea to cool down and then drink.

[Shakthiprabha.]

thanks nov.

I always let the tea bag boil along with water, until someone told me thats not the right way to do.

thanks again.

[swapnasureshbabu]

Hi,
can u guys help me cook for my 7 month old baby boy .
He is taking mother's milk and im providing him rice cereal and pureed vegetables but still he is very very thin...
i hav heard tht there r some grandmother's old and healthy recipes for children anybody hav anykind of recipes to post also general baby food recipes plllzzzzzzz??
from one desperate mom

[dev]

try feeding ragi kanji once a day... preferably in the morning...

[Selviem]

hi Swapna,

u can start giving him semi solid food, since it is a boy he need more than a baby girl. I have 2 sons, one is 7 1/2 yrs and another one 5 1/2 yrs. i started semi solid from the month of six. I used to give him sathu maavu kanchi once in a day. morning idli u can try with milk and sugar. Afternoon, lunch in a small pressure cooker, a small cup of ur cooking rice, 1/4 moong dhal, little carrot, little potato chopped , 1 clove garlic, 1 or 2 sambar onion, 1/4 tsp of jeera, 4 peppercorns, little salt, water may be 1 1/2 cups. cook nicely . then it will be very soft, u can add homemade ghee, while feeding. u can mash the food with the spoon and u can feed. Whatever u try for ur baby please try in the day time. Anyfood to get use it will take nearly a week, slowly u feed, basic is u need the patience. Night u can give him idli or like pongal(very soft). In between u can give fruit punch (made at home), soups, pureed veg. etc.
if ur baby is active that is well and good, donot think that baby is very thin.

[swapnasureshbabu]

Hi selviam ,
thanks a lot. can u plz giv me recipe for sathu maavu i hav heard of it but never tried it before. i will try dal rice and idly definetely.
also i dont hav any idea abt making fruit punch???

Hi dev,
thanks for ur response.i will also try raagi kanji.

[Selviem]

hi swapna,
saathu maavu is very very good the babies, coz it contains all the saathu in that, if they take twice a day that is well and good.
Here is the easiest receipe for it:
1.Broken wheat (wheat rava)- 1 cup
2.G. moong - 1 cup
3.cooking rice (whatever u cook for the rice) - 1/4 cup
4.Cashews - 1/4 cup
5.Badham - 1/2 cup
6.Peanut - 1/2 cup
7.Pottukadalai - 1/2 cup
8.Elaichi - 1 tblsp
9.Sukku - 1 tblsp

Dry fry in the slow fire B.wheat,G.moong, rice one by one .
all these should be fried nicely.keep this in a big tray. peanut with its skin only dry fry and remove the skin, then only the taste will come. if u use the readymade peeled one that is not that much good for the babies. add the peanut to that tray. now u can either dry fry the other items or u can keep in the sun for 2 hours and add to the tray. all these items should be come to the room temperature and u can grind it in the mill. instead sukku u can use sukku readymade powder.
Now the basic powder is ready. For ur baby, u can take 1 tblsp of powder and add 1 1/2 tsp of sugar mix it with little water without any lumps and cook for 3 to min in the slow fire, now it will be like thick kanji. dilute with boiled milk and 1/2 tsp of ghee. this u can feed in the feeding bottle or u can feed like cerelac. This is very filling for the kids. u can increase the qty of the powder according to the age.
till i am giving to my younger one. Coz he is a poor eater, so i will give this one time daily.
u try and tell me .
Fruit punch:
i just make a combination of 2 or 3 fruits peeled cut and make a puree nicely with 1 tblsp of milk and give like a cerelac. I will use banana in my punch.
I normally use apple, pear, straw berry, papaya , cherries.
selvi

dry fry