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Originally Posted by ksen

endha vibin 8-)

So you want to make it differently and impress her ?

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endha vibin-ah :? :roll:

i don't wanna make sundal amma will make iit for me :P it's too easy for me :smokesmirk: en level-e vera :lol2:

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Originally Posted by pavalamani pragasam

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!

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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.

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