A hearty bowl filled with round puffed rice tempered with peanuts/curry leaves/select powdered spices mixed with thick/medium/fine sieved chickpea flour crispy noodles/spiced chickpea flour flats/spiced corn flakes/spiced thick strained chickpea corn flour crochets (wagharela mamra papdi sev chavanu – every Gujarati’s favourite breakfast/snack) & a cup of cardamom flavoured Indian style tea in full milk (elaichiwadi chha) for Monday morning breakfast at Patels kitchen!Sweet sour tangy spicy boiled split pigeon peas lentils soup loaded with tomato/key lime juice/ginger/jaggery/peanuts/powdered n whole spices garnished with back yard grown cilantro (khattimitthi Gujarati dal), home made yogurt garnished with black salt (dahi upar sanchar), steamed long grain basmati rice wiped in curry pan (bhaat- shak na kadhai ma chorelo bhaat), course ground chickpea flour roasted in clarified butter milk solids n cane sugar to perfection till it can settled as fudge (Gujarati sweet Mohanthal), roasted sundried urad lentil flats in black pepper flavour (Mari papad), green beans cooked in curry leaves/ginger/garlic/green chillies/shredded coconut/powdered spices dry curry (kopra fansi shak) & whole wheat flour pan toasted flat bread topped with clarified butter (ghee chopdeli fulka roti) for Monday lunch at Patels kitchen!Oven baked sweet potato dressed with butter/salt/black pepper/shredded cedar cheese/sour cream & steamed buttered broccoli 🥦 florets for Monday dinner at work with a colleague!!
