Pictures of my Refrigerator,IceDream Cook Book and Some Blog Awards.

I love the innovative themes and logos that Divya from Divya Dilse creates.This time she has come up with a fun theme for an event " Show Me your Refrigerator" and to take part in it I am sending the following pictures of my refrigerator.

Front View of My Refrigerator

 Inside View of My Refrigerator

 

The Ice Dream Cook Book

As you all know,that the Avocado Icecream that I sent for the Health Nut IceCream Challenge has won me the Ice Dream Cook Book .On Tuesday , I received The IceDream Cook Book from Chef Rachel Albert-Matesz,The Healthy Cooking Coach.Thank you Rachel for sending me this lovely book of healthy icedreams.Will definitely make and learn a lot of healthy ice cream alternatives from this lovely collection of recipes.

Loving Blog Award from Priya Mitharwal and Jay

Priya Mitharwal from Mharo Rajasthan's Recipes has shared this Loving Blogger Award with me.Thank you Priya for sharing this award and for all your nice words about me.That's very sweet of you.

Jay from Tasty Appetite shared the Loving Blogger Award for participating in her "I Love My Dad" Event.Thank you Jay.

The Versatile Blogger Award from Jay and Sanyukta

Jay from Tasty Appetite has shared with me The Versatile Blogger Award.Thank you Jay for sharing this award with me.

Sanyukta from Creative Sanyukta also shared with me The Versatile Blogger Award.Thank you Sanyukta for thinkng of me and sharing this award with me.

Thank You Card from NithuBala for Participating in her Best Out of WasteEvent

Nithu from Nithu's Kitchen has shared this Thank You card for participating in her Best Out of Waste Event.Thank you Nithu for this lovely card, I enjoyed being a part of this event.

I would like to share the Loving Blogger Award and The Versatile Blogger Award with all my Blog Pals.Every one of them has unique talents and share their tasty array of dishes everyday in their blogs.Dear pals please accept these awards.(You can save the pictures of the awards by left clicking ).

A Win and A Winner's Badge, A Gift Received and A Participation Award

A Win and A Winner's Badge

Dear Visitors of Sumadhura  and Blog Pals, I am very happy and excited to share with you the good news that the Avocado-Coconut Vegan Ice Cream that I sent in for the Health Nut Ice Cream Challenge 2010, has made me a winner with 13 votes.Thank you Yasmeen for creating such a healthy and creative Ice Cream Challenge.I am very excited to know that I will be receiving a a copy of Rachel Albert-Matesz's Ice Dream Cook Book.Thank you Rachel and Yasmeen.

Yasmeen has passed to me this wonderful and memorable winning badge for winning the Health Nut Ice Cream Challenge 2010.Thank you Yasmeen.

On this occassion I would also like to thank Priya Mitharwal too for hosting the Veggie/Fruit a Month:Avocado Event at the same time.Both the Health Nut Ice Cream Event and Avocado Fruit Event hosted at the same time inspired me to make this healthy dessert.

A Gift Received

On June 10th ,I mentioned that I won a Silk : Almond Milk Give Away Coupon.It's such a coincidence that I won that GiveAway too, at Yasmeen's.I received the coupons from Silk few days ago.Thank you Silk.

A Participation Award

Last month Chaithra from Aathidhyam conducted an Event called Bread Mania and shared the Happy Blogging Award for all the participants.Thank you Chaitra ,I enjoyed being a part of the event.

I thank my family and the visitors of this blog and my blog pals for all your encouragement and continuous support.

Tasty and Healthy Juices on Thursdays : Juice Recipe 5 & Awards from Jyoti & Thank You Card from Love2Cook

Today isThursday and time for me to post one more tasty and healthy juice recipe.This recipe is very simple and easy and made with very common ingredients we have in hand.This juice was very tasty and delicious.

Let us see how this healthy juice is made------------

These are the fruits and veggies used in the juice---------------

Apples.................7

Carrots.................4

Ginger..................1inch

Rinse the fruits and veggies under cold water.Juice the apples followed by carrots followed by ginger .Stir the collected juice in the bowl and serve immediately in serving glasses.

This yielded 5 small glasses of juice. The juice was orange in color.

Awards from Jyoti of Panchpakwan

Jyoti from Panchpakwan has shared with me these beautiful awards.Thank you Jyoti for keeping me in your thoughts and sharing with me these wonderful awards.

Thank You Card from Love2Cook

Love2Cook is celebrating her 1st Blog Anniversary and had shared this beautiful Thank You Card with all her blog friends and me being one of them.Thank you Love2Cook.Wish you many more wonderful years of blogging and lots of success and happiness in your life.

Awards from Love 2 Cook and Thank You Card from Creative Sanyukta

Love 2 Cook has shared  these wonderful awards with me.Thank you dear friend for keeping me in your thoughts and for sharing these lovely blog awards.

 Creative Sanyukta has shared a Thank You card on occassion of her blog's 1st Month Anniversary.Thank you Sanyukta.Wish you many more successes.

Awards from PriyaMitharwal and Divya

PriyaMitharwal from Mharorajasthan's Recipes has shared with me these wonderful awards a few weeks ago.Thank you very much Priya for keeping me in your thoughts and sharing these blog awards with me.I am sorry for posting them late.Do visit her blog for wonderful and tasty authentic recipes from Rajasthan.

 Divya from Divya's Recipes has shared with me the following awards.Thank you Divya for thinking of me and sharing your blog awards with me.Do visit her blog for her delicious and tasty recipes and step-by-step presentation.

I share these awards with all my blogger friends.

Healthy Whole Green Moong Kheer/Payasam and Participation Award from ShamaNagarajan

You might have noticed that I use very less sugar or no sugar in my sweet recipes.I use dates,honey or other fruits to sweeten my dishes.In today's recipe I used Agave Nectar.I never heard about it before until I came across this nectar in Gita's recipes.So I wanted to try this in my kheer recipe.It tasted very good without leaving any after taste on the tounge.I came across moong kheer in different blogs and everyone had a unique touch of their own in the recipes.Today's recipe is my version of a very simple and easy to make kheer with whole green moong daal.

I made this when we had friend's come over for dinner.I could not take step by step pictures but sure am going to explain it in steps.We all enjoyed the kheer and hope you would too.We enjoyed second servings too.

Let us get into the details of making this-----------

Main Ingredients :

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Whole Moong.................1cup

2% Milk..........................4cup

Seasoning Ingredients :

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Agave Nectar..................1/4cup

Ghee/Butter.....................1tbsp

Cardamom......................6(powdered)

Garnish :

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Cashew...........................few

Golden Raisins.................few

Preparation :

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Wash the whole green-moong well and pressure cook for 4 whistles.

Place a heavy-bottomed pan on the stove on medium heat and pour the milk in it and let it boil.

Once the milk reaches boiling point add the cooked moong to it and reduce the heat and slow cook for 10 minutes so that the milk turns golden in color.

Meanwhile in a pan add the ghee and fry the cashews and raisins till golden in color and switch off.

Now add the agave nectar and cardamom powder to the kheer and stir well.Finally garnish with cashews and raisins and turn off the stove.

Yummy and healthy Whole Moong Kheer is ready to serve.It can be served hot or cold.

Note:

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1) I used 2% milk ,you can use milk of your choice.

2) I used agave nectar for sweet,you can use sugar ,honey ,jaggery or dates to sweeten your kheer.

3) We prefer less sweet so I used1/4 cup of sweetener,you can adjust sweet according to your taste.

 

I am sending this to CWS - Cardamom Seeds event hosted by Priya.

                                     Participation Award from Shama Nagarajan

For participating in the Kheer Event hosted by Shama I received this Participation Award.Thank you Shama.

Drumstick/Munagakaya Curry(Healthy and Lowfat) & Awards from Pavithra Srihari

This is a simple and easy recipe with Drumsticks.My kids love anything made with drumsticks as they like to  chew on them for a long time.Particularly in Andhra we use it in rasam,sambar,majjigapulusu(kadi) as well as in curries.Even a nice and tasty pickle(Achar) is made out of these drumsticks in Andhra.Drumstick as well as drumstick leaves are very good for health.

Today I am showing the preparation of a simple Drumstick Curry----------------

Main Ingredients :

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Frozen Drumsticks..........................15 pieces(thawed)

Green Pepper.................................1small

Tomatoes.......................................2

Onion............................................1small

Green Chillies................................3

Seasoning Ingredients :

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Canola Oil.................................2tbsp

Ginger......................................1inch piece

Garlic.......................................3cloves

Poppy Seeds............................1tsp

Coriander Seeds.......................1tsp

Cumin Seeds.............................1tsp

Turmeric..................................1/2 tsp

Paprika Chilly Powder..............1/2tsp

Salt.........................................to taste

Garnish :

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Cilantro

Preparation :

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I thawed the frozen drumsticks and then cooked them in the cooker for 2 whistles.While the pressure was cooling down I cut the green pepper into 2inch size pieces and diced the onions and tomatoes into small pieces.

Place a pan on the stove on med-high heat and pour the oil into it.Once the oil is heated up add half the onion pieces in it and fry till they turn golden.

Now add all the green pepper and turmeric to the onions and stir well.

While that is cooking make a paste of the ginger,garlic,poppy seeds,cumin seeds and coriander seeds.Now add this paste to the pan and stir well .Add a pinch of salt and cook it till the raw smell is gone.

Now blend the tomato pieces and rest of the onion pieces and add this paste to the pan of spiced veggies and stir well and cook.

Now take the drumsticks from the cooker and add them to the spiced veg mix in the pan.Add paprika and salt and let it cook till all the spices blend in well.Garnish with cilantro.

Yummy Drumstick curry is ready to be served with hot rice.

Awards from Pavithra Srihari

 Pavithra Srihari from Binge On Veg has shared with me these wonderful awards a little while ago.She has a nice space with creative recipes.Love the way she presents them.Take a plunge to her space and savour her recipes.Thank you Pavithra for sharing these awards.(Sorry for posting them late).

The SunShine Award comes with a set of rules------------

1) Use the logo within your post .
2) Pass on to atleast 12 other bloggers .
3)Add a link to the nominees in your post.
4) Let the nominees know of their award
5) Share the love and link to the friend, who has passed this award to

The Honest Scrap Award comes with certain rules----------

1) I must brag about it.

2) I have to display the badge on my blog and link to the one who tagged me to prove that I didn't tag myself .

3) Share 10 things about myself

4) Pass the award to other fellow bloggers by visiting their site.

You can find the 10 things I shared about me here

I would like to pass all these above awards to all my blog pals and my blog followers :

• 
  
  Vysh
• 
  
   Love2Cook
• 
  
   RV
• 
  
   Lopa & Nithya
• 
  
  Kalai Jeeva
• 
  
   Shama Nagarajan 
• 
  
   Pari 
• 
  
   Nithu Bala
• 
  
   SE
• 
  
   Padhu
• 
  
  Suma
• 
  
  Gita Jaishankar
• 
  
  Jagruti
• 
  
  PriyaM 
• 
  
  Allotment 2 Kitchen
• 
  
  Srimathi
• 
  
  Divya
• 
  
  Faiza Ali
• 
  
  Swathi Iyer
• 
  
  Panchpakwan
• 
  
  Simply.Food 
• 
  
  Rupali 
• 
  
  Cool Lassie
• 
  
  Swapnasree
• 
  
  Jay
• 
  
  Pavithra Srihari
• 
  
   Priya
• 
  
   Yasmeen
• 
  
   Aruna Manikandan 
• 
  
  Easy Crafts 
• 
  
   Cooking Foodie
• 
  
  Sarah Naveen
• 
  
   Anu
• 
  
   Rachana Kothari
• 
  
   Premalatha Aravindan
• 
  
   Sathya Sridhar 
• 
  
  Daisy Blue 
• 
  
  Divya Vikram 
• 
  
  Ruchika
• 
  
  Madhura Manoj
• 
  
  Srividhya Ravikumar
• 
  
   Pranis Kitchen
• 
  
  Ms.Chitchat
• 
  
  Supriya Shenai 
• 
  
  Champa 
• 
  
  Trick or Treat
• 
  
• 
  
  Anjum

Dear friends please accept all the above awards.You and your hardwork deserves them.Pavithra I am sharing this again with you please accept.

Oats & Fruit Smoothie with POM and Award from NithuBala

This Oats & Fruits Smoothie can be had for breakfast or for refreshment in the evening or can be had anytime you crave for something nice and cold in summers instead of sodas and sugar rich beverages.

Main Ingredients :

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Cold Milk......................2cups

Quick Oats....................1cup

Banana..........................1ripe

Blueberries....................1/2cup

Clementine....................1

POM juice....................1(8oz)

Preparation :

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Add all the above ingredients in the blender and blend well.Once the ingredients are nicely blended transfer the smoothie into serving cup and serve it immediately.It was very tasty and filling.Try it out, you will love it.

Note :

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1)I did not add any sweeteners in this smoothie as the fruits had enough sweetness in them.If you like it more sweet you can add sugar or agave nectar or stevia or any sweeteners you like.

2)I had very hard time to get a picture of this smoothie as the flash was reflecting, finally could get this one a bit clearly :-)

Award from Nithu for Think Beyond the Usual : Fruit Event

The following Job Well Done Award was presented to me by Nithu Bala.Thank you Nithu for presenting this lovely award.It was an interesting  fruit event and I thoroughly enjoyed participating in it.Waiting to participate in many more such innovative events from you.

Aratikaaya Perugu Pachadi/Plantain Yogurt Chutney & Awards from Lopa and Subhashini

This is a very yummy yogurt chutney.In Andhra Pradesh many recipes are made with yogurt as the base.One among them are the yogurt chutneys.Today I am going to post an entry with Plantain.Aratikaya Perugu pachadi or Plantain yogurt chutney is a very healthy and delicious dish.

Main Ingredients :
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Plantain/Raw Banana....................1(large)
Yogurt..........................................2cups

Seasoning Ingredients :
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Olive Oil...............................2tsp
Chana Daal...........................1tsp
Urad Daal.............................1tsp
Mustard Seeds......................1tsp
Cumin Seeds.........................1tsp
Asafoetida.............................pinch
Red Chilly..............................1
Turmeric................................1/2tsp
Salt........................................to taste
Curry Leaves..........................few

Garnish :
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Cilantro...............................few leaves

Preparation :

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Rinse the Plantain very well and peel the skin.Keep the peel aside.Pressure cook the plantain for 2 whistles.

While the pressure is settling down let's get the yogurt ready.Take the yogurt in a bowl and whisk it well and add little turmeric and salt.(Thick buttermilk is fine too.Do not use diluted buttermilk).

Now once the pressure is off take the cooked plantain out of the cooker.Let's get the seasoning ready.

Take a pan and place it on the stove on medium heat,add oil, mustard seeds,chana daal,cumin,urad daal,red chilly and asafoetida.

Once the seasoning is ready,add boiled plantain to the seasoning and mash it well.Add turmeric,salt and curry leaves let cook for a minute and switch off the stove.

Now add this seasoned mashed plantain to the yogurt.Adjust salt accordingly and garnish with cilantro.

Simple and easy Plantain Yogurt Chutney/Plantain Raita is ready to serve with hot rice or roti or can be eaten as is.

Note :

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1)In this yogurt chutney boiled plantain can be mashed for crumbly texture or you can grind to make it very soft.

2)Yogurt should not be sour.

3)A very cooling recipe for the summer.

Sunshine Award from Lopa

Thank you Lopa for passing this Sunshine award to me and for  making me feel special.
This award comes with a set of rules.

Rules for the award are :

1. Put the logo within your post.
2. Pass on to atleast 12 bloggers.
3. Link the nominees within your post.
4. Let the nominees know they have recieved the award.
5. Share the love and link to the person from whom you have recieved the award.

Blog Lovin Award & Honest Scrap Award from Subhashini

Thank you Subhashini for thinking of me and sharing these wonderful awards with me.

This award comes with a set of rules:

1) I must brag about it.

2) I have to display the badge on my blog and link to the one who tagged me to prove that I didn't tag myself.

3) Share 10 things about myself.

4) Pass the award to other fellow bloggers by visiting .

I would like to share all the above awards with all my fellow bloggers and the visitors to my blog.Please accept these awards as my thank you to all of you.