“It’s like kheer!”-Porridge with Dates and Walnuts

That is how one friend, Sarita, described this combination, after she tried it out.
It is what Indira and Noor eat for breakfast quite often, and they really love it.
In fact, their favorite food when they were babies was cooked oats mixed with banana, and I even carried a box of oats with me(along with other [...]

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Spanish Omelette(Tortilla)

All this last week, I have had a solitary red bell pepper sitting among the other vegetables in the fridge and  looking at me -I felt -reproachfully for being left unused.
I usually love red bell pepper in salads, but I haven’t felt like making salad since the weather has turned cold. So I decided this [...]

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On choosing breakfast cereals carefully

Remember that old adage, eat breakfast like a king, lunch like a prince and so on?
There is plenty of scientific data out there to support that breakfast is the most important meal of the day.
For many people scrambling to get to work or school on time each morning, a bowl of cereal with milk makes [...]

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Muesli with Yoghurt

Now that summer is here, I am feasting on fruit yoghurt, especially the awesome mango flavor that Danone introduced a couple of years ago.
It is easy to make a simple but filling breakfast out of it, too, by mixing it with muesli.
The girls still prefer crunchy cereals to muesli, but I am hoping that this [...]

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