Pudina means mint leaves in Indian.
This traditional chutney side dish is #nutritious & aids in #digestion. This is the #SouthIndian version. North India has different version.
My dinner tonight is this braised soy & garlic soft tofu, with ground pork, button mushrooms & green onions. Eating with some plain rice congee. Softer foods, for my recovering gums, after 2 back to back molar extractions.
Cutting & chopping propagated #GreenOnions to use with Teochew beef & meatball soup. We have 2 jars on our kitchen windowsill that we harvest from. We grow them outdoors too.
The #cookbook stood as a simple, spiral-bound revelation when Habib-Kirske’s mother, Madelain Farah, first #SelfPublished it in 1972, fulfilling orders by mail herself (with young Habib-Kirske’s help). Back then, #recipes for the likes of hummus, tabbouleh & ful imdammas (falafel) weren’t easy to find & “ #Lebanese#Cuisine” became a treasured underground classic to #cooks from #Lebanon, other parts of the #MiddleEast & far beyond.
Tonight, I made the family Chinese cabbage soup, with lean chicken, fish balls, lobster balls & green onions. We eat with steamed basmati rice. Basmati is better for Mom than other rices due to lower GI score - she can only have rice in small amounts now. I'm trying to get her Type 2 diabetes management under control & customized diet helps Mom a lot.
Made a pot of #Teochew style chicken with preserved lemon #soup. We eat it with steamed rice. It's a longtime traditional comfort soup. Helps with gut health & sore throats. We use our own preserved lemons.
There's a few different cultures, from across Asia into the Middle East, that use preserved lemons in cooking. I've tried Moroccan & Cambodian preserved lemon dishes before.
Rolling everything up. When we don't have #RicePaper - we just use lettuce as the wrapper. In Vietnam, it's usually eaten with just lettuce wraps. I prefer wrapping everything into rice paper.
#Vietnamese#crepes / #BanhXeo
For our brunch today. Only 1 is left. I gobbled up 2 of them, pretty quickly. It's one of Dad's fave dishes & every time I make & eat it now, it reminds me of when we ate them together. I miss mealtimes with my Dad a lot.
Harvested some of our #AsianGreens from garden & made some soup with pork meatballs (with rice vermicelli/water chestnuts).
My #Chinese#breakfast today.