My first Christmas

My healthy new life

My alarm goes off at 7:10am.
I'm up by 7:20am. Brush my teeth, wash my face.

Early morning:
1 glass of water + few drops of lemon juice.
A few almonds.

I pack a quick lunch and head off to the Pro Club.
I run for 30 mins, and another 10 mins on the Elliptical trainer; sometimes I swim.
I shower and then head off to work.

Morning:
1 small bowl of Cheerios wih 1% chocolate milk

Lunch:
1 sandwich which includes 3 slices of bread, low fat butter, 5 slices of chicken cold cuts (fat free), lettuce, some peas, carrots, corn/chic peas, italian seasonning, chilli flakes.

Evening:
Some baby carrots and grapes in my box
Some crackers.
I have 1-2 glasses of green tea during the day.

Dinner:
Sometimes I end up eating relatively fatty stuff like dosa, poha, or sabudhana khichdi, coz I get really hungry by the time I get home. But other times I have soup, Whole grain pasta+low fat alfredo sauce+marinara sauce. Sometimes I make more sandwich.
I always have 1 apple after that.

Aaaaaaaand then brush my teeth, sit on my ass and watch TV :) Am in bed by 11:30pm!

भिन्डी Bhaja

You need:
Cut bhindi into reeealy thin rings
Cut potatoes into small cubes.
Finely chopped onions (optional)
4 Green chilies

Add salt, turmeric powder and a little chilli powder to the above and let sit.
Heat oil in a pan.
saute finely chopped onions. (optional)
Add jeera and chillies.
Once jeera starts to pop, add the vegetables.
Fry them for 6-7 mins.
Then cover and let cook till bhindi and potatoes are completely cooked.

Paneer masala

Cut paneer into small cubes
In a pan, lightly fry paneer cubes with some salt and turmeric.
Keep aside.

In a pan, take some oil.
Stir fry onions, ginger garlic paste, tomatoes, jeera, basic masalas.

Add the fried paneer to the pan, mix it with the gravy.
Let cook for 5-6 mins.

Sabudana Khichdi

1 Cup saboo dana
1 cup finely chopped/ground peanuts
1 potato, finely cut
5-6 green chillies, finely chopped
Lemon juice
Dhania leaves
some jeera seeds

Soak saboodana and ground peanuts for 1hour.
Fry potatoes, chillies, jeera.
Add saboo dana
Cover and cook on low till saboo dana is translucent
Add cilantro leaves.

Hakka noodles

You need:
Hakka noodles
1 capsicum
Carrots and peas
4 Green chillies
Ground red chillies
Pepper, salt and ginger garlic paste

Boil noodles (almost) and drain noodles
Add salt to noodles and keep aside.

In a wok/pan, take some oil.
Add ginger garlic paste.
Add chopped capsicums, carrots, peas and finely chopped green chillies.
Add some salt, ground red chillies and pepper.
Stir fry.

Add noodles to the wok/pan.
Add some soy sauce (2-3 caps) and mix well.

Poha

1 glass of Poha
5-6 green chillis, finely chopped
1 potato, cut into small cubes
some cilantro (dhania)
Peanuts
Chana dal

wash and dry poha (Do NOT soak)
Add salt and turmeric powder, mix and keep aside

Take some oil in a pan.
Add mustard, jeera (cumin) seeds, peanuts, chana dal
stir till they pop.

Add potatoes, saute for few mins.
Add chillies. Allow potatoes to cook.

Then add poha, mix well, cover and let sit for 2-3 mins.
Ta da!!

Vegetable Biryani

Add oil in cooker
Make tadka of jeera + Mirchi
Saute onions
Add garam masala
Add vegetables: peas + carrots
Add Biryani Mix
Add Salt

Little of these:
Add Haldi
Add Dhanya powder
Add chilli powder

Add raw soaked rice
For 1 measure of rice, add 2 1/4 cups of water
Put 4 whistles

Chilli Chicken

Cut chicken in small pieces
3 tbsp soya sauce
2 tbsp vinegar
1 tsp chilli powder
Marinate chicken with all of above.

Fry 1 finely chopped onion, with ginger-garlic paste
add little tomatoes.
add capsicum
mix chicken with this.
add spring onions.

Put 2 whistles.

Potato Peas

Cut potatoes in small cubes
Take some oil in a pan
Add jeera and mustard seeds in the oil, till they start popping
Add some ginger garlic paste next
Then add potatoes, stir fry in cooker (little)

Then add red chillis, salt and haldi
stir fry

Add peas next
Add water
put 1 whistle
Done :)

My dream home

Its been my dream, to have my own little place, arrange it the way I want it, live the way I wanna.. with no one to judge me or even have a say in what I do. Here's a few pictures: