Microsoft Word - KitchenTips_ByKrishnaamma

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Contents

Tension free Cooking - Planning.................................................................................................................... 1

Fruits and Veg. - Planning.............................................................................................................................. 2

Freezer tips .................................................................................................................................................... 2

Storing items .................................................................................................................................................. 3

Making Lemon rice from frozen lemon cubes: ............................................................................................... 3

A Minimum List of Vessels to Start Cooking................................................................................................. 4

Some more tips on 'Food storage' .................................................................................................................. 6

Mosquito Repellent ........................................................................................................................................ 6

More about storing items ............................................................................................................................... 7

Tension free Cooking - Planning

In every action we shouldpractice planning, from Office to Kitchen. In olden days because ofJoint familythere were more members in the family and always elders were available to give quick advice for managingcooking for sudden/unexpected guests/friends. The Staple food grains were available all the time to managethe situation. Cooking for 12 members instead of 10 members was not a problem. But now a days inNuclearfamily of 3 or 4 members, managing cooking for 2 additional members requires proper planning of

kitchen items. The following points will enable you to maintain your kitchen for TENSION FREECOOKING.

Budgetyour monthly requirements and see that you Plan and Spendonly with in the budget.Every month end you should aim at saving10%of your budget.

First maintain month wise record for all house hold items including'Groceries'indicatingQuantity, Unite price and Place of purchase. This will help you to know about theFluctuationsin prices, with respect to different shops and seasons.

Generally all of us will not use all the items fully which we purchase for a month.For example, Hair oil, Shampoo, Napkins, Detergent Powder, Tooth Paste etc., In rotation youbuy any of the two or three items in one month and other 2 or 3 items in next month, and bydoing this, certain items we will purchase once in two or three months gap. And in due course, it

will come in a routine manner. So that the total bill for Grocerywill not go high suddenly in one

month and less in another month. You can avoid the fluctuation by adopting this type ofpurchase. Buy in Bulk or in Big Quantities:When you buy items like Shampoo or Detergent don't buy

'Sashays'or small quantities. During traveling you can buy them, but for house purpose andregular use better you buy big ones even for nuclear family. Because we will pay more, for thepacking charges instead of the product. By buying big bottle of Shampoo or 4.5 Kgs. Detergent

we can save more. More than this at least we will not buy the same items for the next 5 - 6months. ( Now a days the rates are increasing daily!!!)


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Better you prepare a list of grocerybefore your shopping. According to last month'sconsumption, this month's functions you prepare a list. Generally I will prepare my monthly listfrom 20 th of each month and whenever I want to buy a particular thing for the next monthimmediately I will note down the item in mygrocery note book. You can also follow the same.So that when you prepare a final list, you will not miss any item which you need for the month.

Write a slip to note down all the items from the note book before proceeding with shopping.

Don't believe on your memory. After buying as per your list, note down about the purchase inyourgrocery note bookwith out fail. You may feel bore to fill up all the details in a note bookbut after 2-3 months you will feel good about the habit. And whenever you want, you can checkthe note book for a particular item's rate or quantity, or in which shop you can get cheap items.

And definitely I can tell that there will be no deficit in your commoditiesthroughout the monthbecause ofproper planning.

As far as possible planpurchase once a month onlyto avoid unwanted items which are boughtjust for enjoying visit like ice creams, chocolates etc

Fruits and Veg. - Planning

Even for fruits and vegetables, go to whole-sale markets and get them all at a time. Like groceries, we have to

store the fruits and vegetables in the fridge to keep them fresh and use them before they spoil. When ever you buy the fruits and vegetables from bazaar, wash them thoroughly. Make sure that

all are washed well and wipe the water with a clean and dry cloth. Put them in a plastic cover or acloth bag and keep them in the fridge.

Buying from the market in bulk quantities will save your money. You can also plan your menuwell before cooking. Otherwise, the vegetable may not be available in the market and will surelyupset you and your family members.

After storing the fruits in the fridge, you must take them out daily, wipe them, bring them toroom temperature, and then keep them in the fridge.. If you do this way, you can keep them freshfor many days! I am doing like this for a long time. You can also do this for vegetables also. Evenafter 15 days, they will be fresh!

If you find any fruit or vegetable spoiling, use them first. Because, if it is kept with others, itmight spoil them also.

Freezer tips

In this plan I want to tell the role of deep freezer. You can keep Cauliflower, Beans, Green Chilly, GreenPepper (also Red and Yellow), Cabbage, Radish, Peas, Cooked Potatoes, Turnip, Carrots, Bitter Gourd,Ladies finger and many more vegetables inside the deep freezer.

You can keep carrots as full size (by peeling the skin) and use them to prepare kootu. While keeping green chilies keep them without cutting them. For radish peel off the skin and keep as it is or cut them as per your wish. Regarding greens, weed out the stem and collect the leaves, wash them. After draining the water

keep them in a polyethylene cover / zip locker / food covers and keep them in the freezer. You can also buy frozen vegetables for cooking. We can even store lemons in the freezer for a long time. Buy lemons when they are very cheap in

rate and wash them. Then cut them in small pieces and keep them in plastic covers, keep them inthe freezer. When ever you want to prepare pickles, you remove the lemon pockets from thefreezer and keep them 1 to 2 hours our side the fridge and let it come to the room temperature.

Then you can use as per your wish. You can Squeeze lemon with out adding water, pour them in the ice tray. When you want to

prepare lemon juice or lemon rice you can prepare them easily by using the lemon cubes.


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To prepare lemon juice i.e. nimbu paniadd 2 cubes for one glass of water. Add sugar or salt as peryour taste

Storing items

After buying the items in big quantities we must store them properly other wise all our efforts will becomewaste.

So please identify a separate rack or shelf for keeping the wholesale items. Before storing clean the shelfnicely and put an out line with Turmeric Powderor Laxman reka( in India we will get this Laxman-Rekato protect our kitchen items like Sugar etc., from cockroaches and ants by putting a line on the shelf floor.) toprotect your food items from antsand Cockroaches. Now put a newspaper or a plastic sheet to the shelf.

Otherwise I will give you a very good item called COCKROACH REPELLENT, to control cockroach,which you will not get in the shops but you can prepare by your self in your house itself. But while using thisREPELLENT, you have to keep 2 things in your mind. One, this contains a chemical and so you must keepthe 'REPELLENT BALLS'away from the reach of children and the second is when you are putting thisballs in your kitchen at the same time you must put them throughout your house. Otherwise all thecockroaches will migrate to other rooms from kitchen. So please keep these two thing in mind before using

the cockroach repellentin your house. At the same time I don't know whether the cockroach repellent willprotect your food items from ants. Because I have never seen a single ant herein Saudi Arabia.

But for the past 10 years I am living in Saudi and till this time we never called any Pest controler to controlsmall cockroach. I am using that cockroachrepellent here in India also. It is very much useful. Yearly onceyou can prepare and put.

Now the storing place is ready and you can store your grocery items in that. Weekly once you have to take thegrocery items from the bulk. By doing this you will have a control of spending the grocery as well as weeklyonce you will check the items in the bulk section. You can easily check the quantityof the item and qualityof the item, which will help to put a grocery list for the coming month

Note: While preparing this please wear a glove since it is toxic.

Already we discussed about the use ofcockroach repellent. Now let us see how to prepare the repellent.

Take 100 Gms. of Boric Powder, 2 table spoons of Wheat Flour or Patient flour and 2 table spoons of sugar.

Put them all in a bowl. Mix well and sprinkle water occasionally. Prepare it like a tough dough and make smallballs out of it.

Put the balls in all rooms at a time. And keep out of the reach of children

Making Lemon rice from frozen lemon cubes:

If you are going to prepare lemon rice remove the lemon cube from the fridge and keep it in a cup. Beforethe rice gets cool or before you make seasoning for the lemon rice this cube will become lemon juice. Nowyou can add it in the rice and mix well.

Patti Vaidiyam

When we are away from our family, we must know some small small harmless medicine to use in theemergency time. Here I am going to give some of them. My Grand father's Sister gave this to us and in our


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house we are using for more than two generations. This may be useful for you too.

1. For the new born baby we use togive sugar water, is it not? After 10 days or 15 days, we will start to give asmall spoon of honey with warm water to the child in empty stomach. This will prevent fluffyregion that is inTamil we say uhoolaisadhai.2. In the night put one DRIED BIG KISMIS WITH SEEDS in water and in the morning squeeze it in the

water. Filter it and give it to the child after the honey water. You can give 15 min. gap for this.

We are giving this water to avoid constipation. You can give this water when you feel the baby is struggling togo motion.

3. When the baby cries in the night and you dont know the reason, just give a small of honey with warmwater. It will sleep and the next day morning you can show the baby to the doctor4. We are having one stick which we call as VASAMBUI dont know the name in English. But I can put thephoto in this site. Keep this vasambuwith you always through out your life. We can use this always. It is a

wonder ful medicine.

Keep 4 - 5 sticks on the gas flame and alow it to become black fully. (If you are in America, be careful,

because you will get smoke out of this) Turn that stick regularly, make sure that it must become black fully.And must become 'red 'like coal which we prepare for puttingsambrani. Remove from the fire and keep themin a plate. cover it with a big vessel.

Allow it to cool. After 30 -45 min. take them and powder them. you will get ablack powderwhich we call it asvasambu podi.You can store it in a bottle or plastic container.

For children 1 year and small babies, make VASTRA GAYAMand keep it. For others you can use thepowder as it is.

VASTRA GAYAM = Seive it using muslin cloth.

How to use:

1.When you have indegiestion/gastic problem, Take one spoon of this powder add sugar as per yourtaste and just put it in your mouth. Eat that and have a tumbler of hot water. Like this you can take 3time a day for 3 days continously.

2. When you are suffering from loose motion, Take one spoon of this powder and add one spoon ormore honey in that. Mix well and eat. It will stop the motion. Like this you can take 3 time a day for3 days continously.

For babies, take a pinch and do the same as above.

THE MOTION WILL BLACK IN COLOUR. DONT BE AFRID.

A Minimum List of Vessels to Start Cooking

I am giving the list here and I think this will help you, to add with your ideas.

1. Small rice cooker,with its vessels. If it is with pan means it is too good.

2. 2 Vanalies, (Illupa chatti) different size. Or You can get non stick kadai, with or without lid.


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3. 2 KUZHI KARANDI

4. 1 JALLI KARANDI

5. 1 RICE KARANDI/ ANNA VETTI

6. 1 VESSEL SET (4 -5 ADDKU SET)

7. 1 SMALL SEASONING PAN

8. 12 TEA SPOONS

9. 4 TABLE SPOONS

10. 2 SERVING KUZHI KARRANDI

11. 2-4 EATING PLATES

12. 2 -4 TIFFEN PLATES

13. CUTTING BOARD (VEG.)

14. KINIFE SET

15. 6 TUMBLERS/ CUPS

16. 2, 5KG PLASTIC BOXES FOR RICE AND SUGAR

17. 6 - 8, 1KG PLASTIC BOXES FOR DHALS

18. 6 - 8 200gms PLASTIC BOXES FOR MASALA POWDER, KUZHUMBU MILIGAI PODI etc.,

19. 1 ANJARAI PETTI ( TO KEEP KADUKU, MELAGU etc., for daily use)

Even in pooja room you can keep this to store, kumkum, manjal powder, THRI, karpuram etc., inone box.

20. Idly cooker or just 2 Idly plates

21. One dosa tava + dosai karandi

22. 2 - 4 small cups (kinni)

23. MURUKU ACHU (Sevai nazhi)

24.Coffee Filter.

25.Tea Filter

Note: Here I am not adding things like Electric Rice cooker, Mixer Grinder, Food processer, MW, WetGrinder etc., Those items will reduce our work load and we can get them one by one as per our need.


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Now small rice cooker is available in market. Only 3 lt. It is very easy to cook 1/2 cup or 1 cup rice.To cook a small quantity you can have this.

We dont get seperaters for this cookers. So we can use old tiffen boxes as seperaters and can easilycook rice and dal for one or two persons.

Or instead of small rice cooker you can use your 'milk boiler' to cook rice. Just fill water as usual inthe outer part; and keep rice in the milk cooker. Keep in low flame. In 1 lt. cooker we can cook 1 cuprice easily. You can check the rice in between and can switch off the stove after done.

While keeping rice in the 'milk cooker', you can keep a big potato with rice and it will cook with rice.We can use the cooked potato to make 'curry'.

It is difficult to cook in small quantities. This will help you to cook little and you can avoid 'leftovers'. More over for night you can keep 1/2 cup rice, 1 big potato for curry easily by following this.

Some more tips on 'Food storage'

Check out the following convenient tips on storing specific food items

Dairy:

Most dairy products readily absorb strong odours from certain fruits (peaches),

vegetables (cabbage, onions) and fish. So it is necessary to keep the dairy

foods tightly covered when stored with these strongly flavored products.

Bakery products:

To extend shelf life of bakery products such as cakes and pies, wrap them up

tightly in moisture proof paper and store at 0 degrees

Fruits and nuts:

It is best to keep the fruits in a low temperature. But some fruits like lemons,

limes, mangoes, papayas, honeydew melons, grapefruit, and avocadoes should

be kept in a warm place to store its nutritious value

Vegetables:

Other than beans, ripe tomatoes, summer squash, watermelons, cucumbers,

eggplant, pumpkins, sweet potatoes, the vegetables should be kept under the

low temperature.

Mosquito Repellent

For Moisquitos... you have to use mosiquitos repllent only. Use, red colour


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bulb as night lamp. If you have the skin of 'santhras' you keep them here and

there in the house or keep it one the night lamp that will prevent mosiquitos.

More about storing items

I am keeping pappads for more than a year. Not only pappad also vathal vadam varities. I will keepthem in 'crisper' where we have to keep veg. I will use the full 'crisper' by keeping 'coffee powder' , alldhals, rice flour, besan, dry neem flowers, L.G. Powder, 'kesari powder', 'pachai karpuram', red chilly( it will remain red and fresh, Tamarind (by keeping this in fridge it wont turn black for more than ayear).

In the freezer you can keep coriander leaves, pudina leaves, methi leaves, all cut vegetables, thill etc., You can keep 'cut vegetable in the freezer'. Regarding 'Tamarind paste' you can keep it in the Fridge. and there must be enough oil to submerge

the paste pulp under the oil. You can put 1 tea sp. of tamarind paste for rasam, for 2 people for one time use. This you can adjust

if you prepare rasam or sambar while using tamarind paste. Use less quantity first . Check the taste

and at any time of cooking stage you can add the paste and correct the taste as per your wish. Please go through my 'House Made - Ready Made Powders To Make Cooking Easy( 123 ... Last

Page) And go through this also Basic Paste - To make cooking easy( 123 ... Last Page)

krishnaamma These links will help you in cooking . By using these powders and pastes and cut veg. You can finish

cooking with in 1/2 hour. In Freezer keep 'cut veg.' , not full one. You cannot keep them as it is. You have to wash and cut. Put

them in a cover and then keep them in the freezer. Bell pepper you can keep them by cutting them just like that for sambar. Or if you want them to ues

for noodles or raitha then make small slices. To make slices easily just use 'chips maker' . Use thegrater which we use to make potato chips, so you will get thin slices of capcicum. OK? then store it.

For carrots, peel the skin (otherwise they will become black), grate them and keep for raitha andnoodles. Just keep them as it is for sambar and kuttu. While preparing kuttu, remove from the cover,cook it with out water. That is when you cook rice int he cooker, you will place a llid on that . is itnot? keep this carrots on that and when you open the cooker, you can remove the carrots and cutthem easily. Or you can smash and give for children. ok?

REgarding Lemon, You have to squeeze the lemon and remove the seeds. dont add water. Just pourthe juice inthe ice cube tray or in a small container and keep inside the freezer.

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