Date Bar For Your Fit Valentine

If your date lifts or runs, they may turn their nose up at traditional candy treats. However, these macro trackers usually cannot resist the word Protein and Energy 😀 I found this recipe for a Date Bar in The Complete Family Cook Book. I was quite reluctant to make this as my son doesn’t like fruits and nuts, but he doesn’t lift or run anyway so he doesn’t really need this 😀 My daughter and I just wolf these down, and I can testify that I become full of energy after even a single bar.

Date Bar For Your Fit Valentine

Thirunelveli Keerai Chaarru (Greens Soup-Curry)

Keerai Chaarru means greens extract, but it is a misnomer as the juice of the greens is not extracted. It is a simple soup-like curry using very few ingredients – for an Indian recipe 🙂 This is an authentic Thirunelveli preparation. My students, friends, and acquaintances have not heard of this dish at all. Though it is a very simple recipe, one can go wrong in the consistency and sourness as I did when I made it first. I had watched my mother make it but somehow hadn’t registered the proportion of the ingredients. I have now standardised the recipe and get it right every time with this method.

Thirunelveli Keerai Chaarru

Mocha Brownies for New Year

A New Year is when we make resolutions to better ourselves, such as starting a diet. Before we deny ourselves delicious treats we should end the old year with one last hurrah – a decadent delight of calories and protein in the form of Mocha Brownies. The fragrance of the coffee in the brownies will make the entire neighbourhood come to your house on some excuse or the other 🙂

Mocha Brownies for New Year