Simple Tips to make children eat

If your griddle is large enough make many teeny weeny dosas instead of one big one. Top them with a bit of chutney and sandwich them. Kids enjoy these and eat them much less messily.

Make dosas a little less crisp. Roll in any desired filling like a frankie. Add chutney or jam if desired. Make very tasty rolls for your kids lunch box, with change from the routine sandwich too!!.

Try substituting kids lunch bag with lemonade instead of water once or twice

For a childrens party, make coloured ice-cubes by adding food colour to the

1 tiny boiled potato given to the child at least 2-3 times a week is nutritious. Add seasoning or curds, but do not fry. Do a lot more good than fries.

Fix two small pieces of fine sandpaper onthe insides of pencilbox lids. This will allow the child to clean erasers in a jiffy.

Give a nice big bright star on your kiddies room calender every day that he cleans out his lunch box fully!! See his enthusiasm soar.

Keep a good foodie kiddie chart for your kid in the dining room. Every time he eats well, add a colourful star or sticker of his/her favourite screen star, to give him a feeling of achievement. Works like magic with many kids.

Stick a strip of medicated plaster under the sole of your childs new shoes. He will not slip on a slippery floor.

Use old soft bedspreads to make soft sleepons for infants (the filling being layers of the bedspread and not polycotton or heavy cotton which has to be lined with plastic to keep dry.) Hygienic, easy to machine wash, safe and soft, and economical too.

Rosti potato

Ingredients :

• Large potatoes : 2
• Egg : 1
• Butter : 1tb sp
• Sour cream : 2 tb sp
• Pepper
• Salt to taste

Preparation Process :

• Take the grated potatoes and mix well with salt, pepper and egg.
• Heat a frying pan, add a ladle full potato mixture, press lightly the potatoes to spread.
• Add butter from the sides and fry the roasties from both sides till golden.
• Serve hot with a dollop of sour cream.

Appliances Tips

Place a large bowl half full of water, microwave on high till it comes to a boil. Remove and clean oven with a moist cloth, to remove grime and grease. Clean then as usual with warm soapy water dipped cloth.

To clean musty insides of a thermosflask kept closed for long, put in some tiny shreds of old newspaper and fill with warm water. Wash with soap water after 8-10 hours. The flask will sparkle as new and have no stale odours left.

Place a tsp. of soda bicarb in a corner of the fridge in a small crucible. This will keep smells of foods in the fridge from permeating each other.

Clean stains from electronic items like tvs, computers, etc. with some cotton douzed in spirit. Follow with a soft clean moist cloth, and finally a dry flannel cloth.

For apt usage of a microwave, compliment microwave cooking with traditional forms. Do the boiling, frying and seasoning part on a gas stove. While leaving the baking, sauteeing, cooking, melting, etc. to a microwave.

To clean blender, mixer bowls easily, after emptying content, add a cupful of water, run for a few seconds. All clogged particles will easily get flushed out. Use this water to add to gravies, soups, etc.

To clean the inside of a mixer or blender throroughly, fill it halfway with water. Add a few drops of detergent. Run machine for a few seconds. Rinse with water. Invert on a cloth till dry.

Synthetic fibres stick to the bottom of the iron. Cool the iron, then rub the affected surface with nail polish remover to get rid of the stickly matter.

Round or oval containers will spread heat more evenly in a microwave oven than square, rectangular or odd shaped ones.

Small cracks in plastic can be repaired by running a hot (not red-hot) scresdriver lightly along the crack. Half fill blender with water, add a few drop of mild detergent, and run the mixie for a few seconds. Rinse with water and wipe. This will clean the mixie of any residual particles stuck under the blades or in the grooves.

Black Eyed Peas Curry

Ingredients :

• Black Eyed Peas : 1 cup
• Heavy Cream : 1/2 cup
• Onion : 1
• Tomato Paste : 1 tb sp
• Ginger Garlic Paste : 1/2 tb sp
• Turmeric : 1/4 tb sp
• Coriander leaves
• Salt for taste
• Oil for seasoning

Preparation Process :

• Soak Black Eyed Peas overnight.
  
• Pressure cook it upto two whistles with little salt.
  
• Chop Onions fine. Heat little oil in a vessel. Add ginger garlic paste. Then add turmeric amd onion. Saute until onions become transparent.
  
• Add tomato paste and water to thin the paste. Allow it to cook for 3-4 mins. Then add heavy cream. Cook for 3-4 mins stirring inbetween.
  
• Add salt and cooked black eyed peas. Let it simmer in low flame for 3-4 mins. Add chopped coriander leaves before serving.
  
• Serve hot with rice and chapathi.

Corn kofta curry

Ingredients :

• Corn beads : 2 cups
• Onions : 2
  
• Chilles : 4
  
• Salt to taste
• Corinder leaves
• Paneer : 50gms
  
• Oil as reuired

To Make gravy:

• Tomato puree : 2 cups
• Ginger garlic paste : 1 tb sp
  
• Curds : 1 cup
• Mirchi powder : 1 1/2 tb sp
  
• A pinch of Garam Masala
• Onions : 2
• Dhania Powder : 1 tb sp
  
• 4tbls oil

Preparation Process :

For Koftas

• Grind Fresh corn to paste, mix it with salt, chilles, oninons, corinder and chopped paneer.
• Make the paste to small ball shaped pieces and fry them in oil.

For gravy:

• Take a frying bowl put chopped onions and fry them till the color turns to red
• Later add ginger & Garlic paste,mirchi powder and dania powder and mix it firmly.
• Add the tomato puree and stir till the oil comes up.
• Mix it with curd and cook for ten mins.Add corinder and garam masala .
• Add koftas to gravy and stir .
• Corn kofta curry is ready to serve.

Pumpkin Idli

Ingredients :

• Grated pumpkin : 2 cups
• Idli rava : 3/4 cup
• Handful of coriander leaves
• Shredded coconut : ½ cup (optional)
• Green chillies : 4-5
• Salt for taste

Preperation Process :

• Remove the skin from the pumpkin and grate it.
• Chop up the green chilies and coriander leaves very finely.
• Add the idli rava, green chilies, coriander leaves to grated pumpkin and mix well. Add salt as required. No need to add water at all.
• Note that the mixture in this case will be coarse and separate and not “gooey” or sticky like regular idli batter. The mixture should have more of pumpkin than the idli rava.
• Keep aside for 30 minutes.
• Grease the idli stand and pour the pumpkin mixture in each groove.
• Steam this in a pressure cooker without whistle for 15 minutes.
• Serve hot with ghee.