Its March!!! Hope many of you know about the Day light saving, the first week after the timings change, its bit tough to handle specially you have school going toddlers.

How to cope with daylight savings time?
  • Early to bed
  • Morning walk as regular routine
  • Enjoy the longer evenings
  • Dont be a potato Couch 
  • Reduce screen time
These are the best I'm following.
In continuation of my last post, I'm posting today the Ridge Gourd kootu recipe.

Peerkangai Thogayal Recipe


Peerkangai kootu recipe is a healthy and tasty south indian recipe made with moong dal and coconut. This is extremely rich in dietary fiber and low in saturated fat. Kootu goes well with rice and rotis.


Ingredients

  • Ridge gourd / peerkangai - 1 
  • Moong dal - 2 tbsp
  • Turmeric powder - 1 tsp
  • Coconut grated - 1/4 cup
  • Cumin seeds - 1/4 tsp
  • Green chili - 3
  • Dry Red chilies -1
  • Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
  • Oil - 1 tbsp
  • Salt as taste
  • Oil - 1/4 tsp
  • Curry leaves - 1 sprig

Instructions

  1. Clean, peel and cut the Peerkangai. Keep aside.
  2. Heat a pan and do dry roast the Moong dal.
  3. Add turmeric, water and 2 drops of oil. Close the lid and allow it to cook for 5 mins.
  4. Once dal half cooked, add the peerkangai cubes and allow it to boil.
  5. Grind the coconut, chili, cumin seeds into a paste.
  6. Add the paste in boiling pan. Allow it to cook for another 5 mins.
  7. Seasoned with oil, mustard seeds, dry chili, curry leaves. Serve with rice or rotis.
Dry roast for 2 mins

Add water, turmeric and oil

Check its half boiled

Add peerkangai cubes

Grind coconut, chili and cumin seeds

Allow it to boil

Add grinded mixture


Season it and ready to serve

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Its March!!! Hope many of you know about the Day light saving, the first week after the timings change, its bit tough to handle specially you have school going toddlers.
How to cope with daylight savings time?
  • Early to bed
  • Morning walk as regular routine
  • Enjoy the longer evenings
  • Dont be a potato Couch 
  • Reduce screen time
These are the best I'm following. The first week is our challenge, the next week we'll be fine. So coming back to our recipe, as a lazy mom I wake up at 6.30 am and check my refrigerator, thank god I found my favorite vegetable Ridge Gourd (Peerkangai). I got an idea instead of cooking 2 different vegetables, why don't cook on 2 dishes using single vegetable 💡😀. So here is the output you can see in my post. I cleaned and removed the skin and make chutney and inside part I make kootu. Sound awesome na, I feel proud myself today 😎



In Today's post, you can see Ridge Gourd Thogayal recipe, I'll upload in one or two days the kootu recipe, because my calendar is already full today and tomorrow. But I want to share this idea so that immediate uploading one recipe.




Ingredients

  • Ridge gourd / peerkangai - 1
  • Channa dal - 2 tbsp
  • Dry Red chilies - 4
  • Garlic  - 4 pods
  • Grated coconut - 1/2 cup
  • Tamarind paste - 1 tbsp  
  • Sesame Oil - 1 tbsp
  • Salt as taste

Instructions

  1. Peel or cut the skin part of the Peerkangai after cleaned vegetable. Keep aside.
  2. Heat oil in a pan and add in the chana dal. Fry till golden color. 
  3. Add peerkangai skin and saute for 5 minutes, you can see it turns soft.
  4. Add garlic, coconut, red chili. Saute for a minute.
  5. Grind the mixture with salt and tamarind paste to slightly coarse paste. DO NOT add water, if required add drop by drop.
  6. Serve with rice and ghee or Idly dosas.

Heat oil in a pan and add in the chana dal. Fry till golden color.

Add peerkangai skin and saute for 5 minutes

Add garlic, coconut, red chili

Grind and serve


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"One cannot think well, love well, sleep well, if one has not dined well."
- Virginia Woolf




I already posted many chicken recipes but this chicken gravy using pressure cooker is easy peasy recipe and its ready in few minutes. For bachelors its simple to make even you can skip the coconut grinding step too. Hope you guys will try this and let me know how it turns out for you.

 

Ingredients

  • Chicken - 1 kg
  • Onions - 3 
  • Coconut oil - 2 Tsp 
  • Cumin seeds - 1 Tsp
  • Tomatoes - 1
  • Red Chili powder - 1 Tsp
  • Turmeric -1/2 Tsp
  • Cumin Seeds  - 1/2 Tsp
  • Ginger Garlic paste - 2 Tbsp
  • Chettinad masala powder - 3 Tbsp 
  • Coconut grated - 1 cup
  • Garam masala powder - 1 Tsp

Method

  1.  Clean chicken thoroughly and put in a pressure cooker. 
  2.  Add onions, tomatoes, ginger garlic paste, cumin seeds, turmeric, red chilli powder, chettinad masala powder and salt to the pressure cooker.
  3. Turn on Stove and add at least half a cup of water, give it a good stir and close the lid. Allow it upto 3 whistles.
  4.  Allow the natural release and open the lid. 
  5. Grind coconut and garam masala powder with the help of little water.
  6. Add the grinded mixture to the opened pressure cooker and switch of the medium flame. Cook it for 10 mins.
  7. Add chopped cilantro and transfer to the serving bowl.






Clean with water and turmeric


Add chicken

Add onions, tomatoes, ginger garlic

Add masala and salt

 Grind coconut, garam masala



Pressure cooked chicken

Add grinded mixture

Allow it to cook for 10 mins

Ready to serve

 


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This weekend the weather was gorgeous and the outdoors was calling so I planned to visit gardens near by instead of parks. This help me to educate and give exposure to my kid, even I learnt more from the garden. Also some indoor orchids show we seen, that was awesome experience. Spring in the winter that's awesome. 

Love this weather in winter 😊






Also visited collection of Bonsai trees, my son told me trees in a pot mamma.



Get away from your computer, TV, tab, phone, go outside and enjoy the early spring!
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"Planning is bringing the future into the present so that you can do something about it now."
- Alan Lakein

 Hello friends! Welcome back to Iamgeetha blog.

Today i am releasing the Free Work Planner printable. The reason behind i shared this always need to organize our own life by starting simple daily planners. Yup, I am releasing out the Cherry Blossoms Free Daily Planner right away!


Tasks

The best way to organize your day. List down your important tasks for the day, routine tasks based on priority levels.

Appointments  

Our daily printable has space for appointments and mention the timings of the day, which helps you to regulate your daily activities.

Important notes  

Last but not the least, we included space for writing down notes, you can use for quote for the day, important events, or any more reminder.

Download Instructions:

To download the March 2020 calendar, Weekly and monthly planner, find the designs you like below, click on image to bring up the high resolution image, and right click “save” to save the full size image to print.












We have done with today printables. Cherry Blossoms Daily Planner pages from Monday to Sunday, I hope you can use them and happy with your plans. Stay tuned for more unique varieties of upcoming daily planner pages. Don’t forget to check out our other digital paper packs. Create and enjoy!

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Have a fabulous day 😃

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Calendar 2020

Daily / Weekly Planners 

Birthday Planners

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