Re: Lunch -Thread 2

[Impedimenta]

soup and salad. boring

[Bittu]

daal-chawal with home made hot sauce. pretty tasty. will eat an ice cream sandwich shortly.

[Impedimenta]

B, sounds yummy.

[Bittu]

not as yummy as you darling.

[Captain Bhankas]

given this community's tremendous interest in the gastronomic activities of fellow suchers, i thought why don't i read an account of what i stuffed myself with so far?

so far -

tea
2 toasts
a banana
dried fig
almonds
walnut
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to do -

stuffed capsicum
weekly dose of sickly yellow daal with drumsticks
chapathi
curd
1/2 snickers bar

a visit in the eve to the new chat store opened in the 'hood to try their bhel. haven't decided what to eat for dinner yet.

you are welcome.

[Guest]

huz, moong kichidi sounds interesting. can you make that with greenmoong dal?

yes! whole mung khichdi is a popular variation and i have it sometimes.

[Captain Bhankas]

damn that 1/2 sinckers bar has gone missing from the fridge.

[Guest]

damn that 1/2 sinckers bar has gone missing from the fridge.  

 you must investigate this captain!

[Captain Bhankas]

damn that 1/2 sinckers bar has gone missing from the fridge.  

 you must investigate this captain!

indeed. i have ordered an inquiry. i must eat something sweet, anything really, after my meals when i am home. now i will eat chywanprash instead of snickers. damn!

[Captain Bhankas]

clustered beans, aloo-aloo, roti.

dessert - junnu! or the marathi equivalent of it - kharvas. slurpppp.

[Merlot Daruwala]

Nice. I'm a huge kharvas fan too.

My lunch today was a juicy steak (medium-well) with bacon and sausage. Washed down with lawnmower beer.

[Impedimenta]

evil eye. i am too sick to eat.

[Nila]

evil eye. i am too sick to eat.

rasam rice with vattal.

[Impedimenta]

evil eye. i am too sick to eat.

rasam rice with vattal.

 wish i had someone to at least make this for me. ironical how i complain to my daughter that she now misses her mom only when she is sick these days:-) i am doing the same...

[Nila]

evil eye. i am too sick to eat.

rasam rice with vattal.

 wish i had someone to at least make this for me. ironical how i complain to my daughter that she now misses her mom only when she is sick these days:-) i am doing the same...

Sorry, no real help from me....you are in east coast. Yep, nothing like food made by Mom. Our kids will be like us only - Scary!!!

In our house everyone likes rasam sadam anytime anywhere. The good combination for rasam sadam is potato varuval.

[Guest]

 Yep, nothing like food made by Mom.

agree. i made squash-tomato rase walki sabzi y'day, and kids loved it. Older one hated it until she was probably 10-11. She LOVES anything turai/lauki/sqaush now, takes two servings sometimes. Son hated it until now, but looks like he is a new convert. First he cribbed that he didn't want it, but later came in the kitchen to tell me it's very good.

[nevada]

Indian today. Aloo cutlet, padpi chaat, achari paneer, plain naan, aloo naan.

[Nila]

Veggi cutlet is one of my fav food, but never had a decent cutlet in bay area.

[Nila]

 Yep, nothing like food made by Mom.

agree. i made squash-tomato rase walki sabzi y'day, and kids loved it. Older one hated it until she was probably 10-11. She LOVES anything turai/lauki/sqaush now, takes two servings sometimes. Son hated it until now, but looks like he is a new convert. First he cribbed that he didn't want it, but later came in the kitchen to tell me it's very good.

He is so cute. I think second ones are more appreciative than first ones. I will always have to ask for a feedback and get a one word reply...from my DS and H. The elder borns are more like they deserve to be served good tasty food, respect, get updates without asking for and so on. Out of one blue moon make one little act to impress us and we fall for that easily.

My DS took nutrition classes and once in a while bribe me with a salad and chocolate coated strawberries and also throws a big smile (I don't know that you can smile like that kinda smile)

[nevada]

About to have lunch in a few. Menu for today:

• Yucatan Achiote Chicken with Mango
  
  
  
• Madrid Style Meatballs
  Pork and beef meatballs cooked in white wine, fresh tomatoes, onions and green olives
  
  
• Pasta with Vegetables
  Farfalle pasta tossed with olive oil, zucchini, yellow squash, green and red bell peppers
  
  
• Grilled Eggplant with Mozzarella Cheese
  Grilled eggplant baked with fresh tomatoes and mozzarella cheese
  
  
• Organic Quinoa Pilaf with Vegetables
  Organic quinoa pilaf with saffron and white wine braised vegetables
  
  
• Aroma Tropical Salad
  Organic spring mix with mango, jicama, cucumber, red onions and raspberry vinaigrette
  

[Impedimenta]

About to have lunch in a few. Menu for today:

• Yucatan Achiote Chicken with Mango
  
  
  
  
  
• Madrid Style Meatballs
  Pork and beef meatballs cooked in white wine, fresh tomatoes, onions and green olives
  
  
  
  
• Pasta with Vegetables
  Farfalle pasta tossed with olive oil, zucchini, yellow squash, green and red bell peppers
  
  
  
  
• Grilled Eggplant with Mozzarella Cheese
  Grilled eggplant baked with fresh tomatoes and mozzarella cheese
  
  
  
  
• Organic Quinoa Pilaf with Vegetables
  Organic quinoa pilaf with saffron and white wine braised vegetables
  
  
  
  
• Aroma Tropical Salad
  Organic spring mix with mango, jicama, cucumber, red onions and raspberry vinaigrette
  
  
  

 i don't like you anymore. i had poha for lunch. i made it myself and i am proud. jai hind.

[Impedimenta]

 Yep, nothing like food made by Mom.

agree. i made squash-tomato rase walki sabzi y'day, and kids loved it. Older one hated it until she was probably 10-11. She LOVES anything turai/lauki/sqaush now, takes two servings sometimes. Son hated it until now, but looks like he is a new convert. First he cribbed that he didn't want it, but later came in the kitchen to tell me it's very good.

He is so cute. I think second ones are more appreciative than first ones. I will always have to ask for a feedback and get a one word reply...from my DS and H. The elder borns are more like they deserve to be served good tasty food, respect, get updates without asking for and so on. Out of one blue moon make one little act to impress us and we fall for that easily.

My DS took nutrition classes and once in a while bribe me with a salad and chocolate coated strawberries and also throws a big smile (I don't know that you can smile like that kinda smile)

i did not read one word after chocolate covered strawberries and then forgot what i read before.

[Propagandhi711]

About to have lunch in a few. Menu for today:

• Yucatan Achiote Chicken with Mango
  
  
  
• Madrid Style Meatballs
  Pork and beef meatballs cooked in white wine, fresh tomatoes, onions and green olives
  
  
• Pasta with Vegetables
  Farfalle pasta tossed with olive oil, zucchini, yellow squash, green and red bell peppers
  
  
• Grilled Eggplant with Mozzarella Cheese
  Grilled eggplant baked with fresh tomatoes and mozzarella cheese
  
  
• Organic Quinoa Pilaf with Vegetables
  Organic quinoa pilaf with saffron and white wine braised vegetables
  
  
• Aroma Tropical Salad
  Organic spring mix with mango, jicama, cucumber, red onions and raspberry vinaigrette
  

I am having rice that has been organically steamed with filtered water from delta faucet, along with ground organic turkey meat sourced from california mixed with alfalfa sprouts, cauliflower from the andes, lima beans from origins unknown and filled with spices from the exotic orient and southasian subcontinent washed down with aqua from kenmore refridgerator. I will then swallow some diet coke bottled in atlanta and chilled with icecubes from the kenmore refridgerator.

[Impedimenta]

LOL

[Guest]

oh no @ lima beans from origins unknown ....

[Nila]

Ragi rotti and organic spinach cooked with olive oil, garlic, red onions, organic thai pepper.

lol

[Impedimenta]

veggie chips, zesty ranch flavored. aiyooo, so darn good. Something in there must be organic...

[southindian]

Organic food with Organic water having the feel good factor.

[Captain Bhankas]

I am having rice that has been organically steamed with filtered water from delta faucet, along with ground organic turkey meat sourced from california mixed with alfalfa sprouts, cauliflower from the andes, lima beans from origins unknown and filled with spices from the exotic orient and southasian subcontinent washed down with aqua from kenmore refridgerator. I will then swallow some diet coke bottled in atlanta and chilled with icecubes from the kenmore refridgerator.

roflllll

[goodcitizn]

I am having rice that has been organically steamed with filtered water from delta faucet, along with ground organic turkey meat sourced from california mixed with alfalfa sprouts, cauliflower from the andes, lima beans from origins unknown and filled with spices from the exotic orient and southasian subcontinent washed down with aqua from kenmore refridgerator. I will then swallow some diet coke bottled in atlanta and chilled with icecubes from the kenmore refridgerator.

roflllll

LOL! Props is right about all these politically-correct products. It's like a "free range" chicken appreciates us a lot more than a caged chicken before we butcher them. But a free range chicken still has fenced-in yards (which is still cruel) so we now have even a better category called "pastured poultry" i.e. it had free access to wander everywhere. These birds appreciate us a lot more particularly because they are not de-beaked like the caged ones for they fight in a crowded enclosure hurting themselves. The logic is that it is humane to de-beak the caged birds to prevent injury and cannibalism. And there is greater logic to being even more humane by not de-beaking birds that are free-roaming. Wow, aren't we the most humane human beings? Time for us to take a bow.

[Merlot Daruwala]

Wow, aren't we the most humane human beings? Time for us to take a bow.

Yes. By eating them, we help those little birdies fulfill their destiny. But for us, they wouldn't even exist.

[goodcitizn]

Wow, aren't we the most humane human beings? Time for us to take a bow.

Yes. By eating them, we help those little birdies fulfill their destiny. But for us, they wouldn't even exist.

You obviously didn't get the memo that you go to heaven when you eat free-running pasture-raised chicken and go to hell for eating de-beaked chicken-wire-fenced chicken.

[Merlot Daruwala]

Oh there is already a special place in hell reserved for me for all the things I've eaten. No amount of free-running pasture-raised chicken can change that for me. But that's fine. Heaven is likely to be full of boring, sanctimonious people anyway.

[goodcitizn]

Oh there is already a special place in hell reserved for me for all the things I've eaten. No amount of free-running pasture-raised chicken can change that for me. But that's fine. Heaven is likely to be full of boring, sanctimonious people anyway.

LOL! I think I'll be joining you in hell too since I've been eating regular tomatoes as opposed to the vine-ripened organically grown kind.

[Impedimenta]

pei wei, first time there. let's see how it goes.

[Bittu]

pei wei, first time there. let's see how it goes.

There's always a first time for everything. Your thoughts on first time NI-SI integration?

[Nila]

Heaven could be a boring place but I have decided that is the place for me, so have decided to eat healthy from today.

avocado, spinach, 1/2 banana, mint, green grapes smoothie.

Lunch: Kale cooked with olive oil, red onions, garlic cloves with brown rice cooked along with green gram and sautéed with jeera and grated ginger.

[Nila]

Green tea with peach is gonna be a snack
apple and green tea is gonna be a mid day snack.

I feel like there is an angel ring around my head!

[nevada]

Going to Amber India for lunch buffet. I love celebratory work lunches! And I just finished breakfast - organic banana, organic apple, Odwalla original superfood smoothie and Taste Nirvana Real coconut water. Did a lighter breakfast today to save up my appetite for the impending batting session at the lunch buffet

[Guest]

chopped grilled chicken salad from subway. Trust them to come up with 'chopped' to boost their salad sales.

[Seva Lamberdar]

Going to Amber India for lunch buffet. I love celebratory work lunches! And I just finished breakfast - organic banana, organic apple, Odwalla original superfood smoothie and Taste Nirvana Real coconut water. Did a lighter breakfast today to save up my appetite for the impending batting session at the lunch buffet

What is organic banana ... how exactly is it grown to be called organic banana ... moreover, considering most of the bananas sold in the U.S.A. are imported from abroad, how can someone living in the U.S. make sure that the banana he (she) is purchasing at a higher price as organic banana in the local maket is really organic banana

[nevada]

Going to Amber India for lunch buffet. I love celebratory work lunches! And I just finished breakfast - organic banana, organic apple, Odwalla original superfood smoothie and Taste Nirvana Real coconut water. Did a lighter breakfast today to save up my appetite for the impending batting session at the lunch buffet

What is organic banana ... how exactly is it grown to be called organic banana ... moreover, considering most of the bananas sold in the U.S.A. are imported from abroad, how can someone living in the U.S. make sure that the banana he (she) is purchasing at a higher price as organic banana in the local maket is really organic banana

Good question about non US products claiming to be organic. How hard is it to bribe someone in a banana republic to get organic certification?

[Impedimenta]

lunch was super, like rajinikanth sooper...

[Seva Lamberdar]

Going to Amber India for lunch buffet. I love celebratory work lunches! And I just finished breakfast - organic banana, organic apple, Odwalla original superfood smoothie and Taste Nirvana Real coconut water. Did a lighter breakfast today to save up my appetite for the impending batting session at the lunch buffet

What is organic banana ... how exactly is it grown to be called organic banana ... moreover, considering most of the bananas sold in the U.S.A. are imported from abroad, how can someone living in the U.S. make sure that the banana he (she) is purchasing at a higher price as organic banana in the local maket is really organic banana

Good question about non US products claiming to be organic. How hard is it to bribe someone in a banana republic to get organic certification?

We have bananas growing in our house in India (at least when I lived there several decades ago). 
The nature of banana tree / plant is such that there is no particular "organic" treatment needed for it ... I personally can't think of any use for pesticide for banana.
In addition, the banana (fruit) peel is quite thick and tough and wouldn't let any pesticides get in even if someone used pesticides etc. for the plant for whatever reasons.
Thus it's hard to believe that there is a category of "organic bananas" and people are paying higher price for it than the "regular bananas". 

What's next ... organic coconuts?

[nevada]

Pics from lunch

[confuzzled dude]

Pics from lunch

Yeah, Yeah, we get it. You don't need to rub it in.

[Captain Bhankas]

We have bananas growing in our house in India (at least when I lived there several decades ago). 
The nature of banana tree / plant is such that there is no particular "organic" treatment needed for it ... I personally can't think of any use for pesticide for banana.
In addition, the banana (fruit) peel is quite thick and tough and wouldn't let any pesticides get in even if someone used pesticides etc. for the plant for whatever reasons.
Thus it's hard to believe that there is a category of "organic bananas" and people are paying higher price for it than the "regular bananas". 

What's next ... organic coconuts?

maybe not pesticides but fertilizers?

[Seva Lamberdar]

We have bananas growing in our house in India (at least when I lived there several decades ago). 
The nature of banana tree / plant is such that there is no particular "organic" treatment needed for it ... I personally can't think of any use for pesticide for banana.
In addition, the banana (fruit) peel is quite thick and tough and wouldn't let any pesticides get in even if someone used pesticides etc. for the plant for whatever reasons.
Thus it's hard to believe that there is a category of "organic bananas" and people are paying higher price for it than the "regular bananas". 

What's next ... organic coconuts?

maybe not pesticides but fertilizers?

Chemical fertilizers usually make no difference in terms of organic or regular type of growing of crops, especially if it is banana crop.

[Guest]

Finally googled this.

http://www.fitsugar.com/Bananas-Organic-vs-Conventional-1568020

[Impedimenta]

Seva ji - seriously consider consulting with the FDA:-) otherwise, how have you been?

Nevada - wait for my pics on friday. it will be better than yours:-)

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