Wish a very happy father’s day to you all.
I have been writing so much about my mom on this blog. But I think, I have never written anything about my dad. Now what can be a better day than Father’s day?
My dad – ‘pappa’ as we call him is a doctor and a social worker. After he finished his medical studies, he moved back to the village to stay with my grand father since my grand mother was no more and grand father was alone. He had more than his share of troubles for staying in such a small place. He is very actively involved in more than one school management, temple management and many such social work.
When it comes to family life, he is the best dad anybody can ask for. While growing up, he always gave us any smallest thing we asked for. We would ask for a chocolate and he would get the entire big pack of chocolates. He would take us for restaurants and every place we asked. He always tried his best to give us everything possible. He is very good in mathematics and he was too worried because during my initial school days, I was pathetic in studies. Then he started teaching me mathematics and I used to feel, ‘why he does not leave me alone? why he is always behind my studies?’, but when I started getting 100% marks in mathematics, I knew what my dad had done. If I was the favorite student of most of my teachers, the full credit goes to my parents who spent so much time on me.
Today I wanted to make something special for my pappa. I didn’t know what to cook. I had great ideas of making a small model of my native. But it was too difficult to make. So finally I decided to put everything he loves represent on the cake. I don’t say I did a great job, but I tried my best.
I am sure you guys can’t recognize what I was thinking when I was putting these bits and pieces on cake. So here it is –
Vada , idli-chutney-sambar , batata vada , hittu/khotte , kadamb
Masala dosa
Chakli , jackfruit chips
Rice, dali thoy , pickle, papads
I love you pappa…
Most of the people from and around Maharashtra might know this simple and tasty tomato omelet (vegetarian) / omlet. I was introduced to this dish in Belgaum. I am not sure where I ate it first, but I liked it and I used to make it regularly for my breakfasts or for snacks. But somehow after my marriage, I kind of forgot about this. I felt my husband might not like the taste of it and stopped making it.
Then one day, few months ago, Aruna sent me a recipe for it. Since I had a pathetic tava at that time, I was a bit hesitant to try this. Then one fine day when I ran out of all ideas for breakfast, I tried this and I simply loved it. But due to bad tava , the picture was not at all worth posting here. Few days ago, Aruna again reminded me about this and also sent me some more additions. Thanks to her suggestion, now I have one of the best frying pans which can also be used as tava and the first dish I tried when I bought those pans was this omelet. To tell the truth, this version of tomato omelet has an amazing taste and I loved it more than what I had tasted before. This can be prepared literally in minutes, so this has become one of my favorite breakfasts to cook as well as eat. Do try this version to know what I am saying. Thanks Aruna.
Tomato omelet (Vegetarian)
Ingredients
- 3/4 cup gram flour besan
- 1/2 cup wheat flour optional
- 2 tbl spns fine wheat sooji/rava
- 3/4 cup finely chopped tomato
- 1/2 cup finely chopped onion
- 1/2 tea spn cumin seeds
- 1/2 tea spn chopped ginger
- 1 tea spn chili powder or 2-3 finely chopped green chilies
- 1/2 tea spn coriander powder optional
- 1/2 tea spn cumin powder optional
- 3-4 strands chopped coriander leaves
- A pinch turmeric
- Oil/ghee
- Salt
Instructions
- Mix all the ingredients (except oil/ghee) with water to get to dosa batter consistency.
- Heat tava(nonstick preferred), spread the batter into thin omelets.
- Drizzle some oil/ghee on top.
- Turn the omelet upside down and fry on other side.
- Serve hot with tomato ketchup (or mint chutney).
