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| Chia pudding |
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| Final spread |
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| Birthday dinner |
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| Ragda |
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| Baked potato pattice topped with sesame seeds |
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| Coriander and date chutneys |
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| Vegan scallop potato bake |
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| Fruit cake with coconut cream toppings |
This year was really something when it came to cooking for Mahesh on his birthday. The girls and I decided to give him a surprise birthday dinner and cooked up pretty exotic vegan stuff. Ofcourse there had to be potatoes which happens to be his favorite vegetable . I gathered the recipes from various cooking blogs especially from Blender Girl.
The girls pitched in chopping with the veggies and decorating the fruit cake along with their grandmom. Shruthkirti was especially kicked about assembling the fruit cake and decorating it with a coconut cream toppings. She also very enthusiastically assembled the potato bake with alternating layers of a cauliflower based vegan sauce and potato slices.
Shreedhari decorated the living room beautifully with streamers across the top ceiling. We managed to make the following:
Ragda pattice with baked potato cupcakes as pattice and date and coriander chutneys
Thai mixed salad with bean sprouts,spring onions, zoodles and a citrus thai sauce
Vegan scallop potato bake
A completely fruit layered cake with coconut cream toppings which was totally Shruthkirti's ideas.
The whole dinner proved to be a great hit! Everyone especially the birthday boy loved everything that was cooked. The fruit cake was certainly the highlight of the evening.
Felt like such an accomplishment for myself , the girls and their grandmom. Such brilliant team work. And ofcourse tons of hard work, focus, planning , execution , love and bonding through food.
Really nothing can beat a birthday celebration when it comes to conscious cooking with your heart 100% in it.
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