Plateful of Heaven

After a fairly harrowing journey, the first main meal at home, presented by my mom, is pictured above: Cabbage+Carrot poduthuval, Avial, Chaenai-Elavan Koottu, Chaenai fry and manga curry! With Muringakka sambar and tomato rasam, of course, and some pappadam, which are a given.

My recipes for these dishes are sort of improvised fusion, not necessarily authentic... maybe one of these days I can add my mom's own recipe here for my favorites.

For now, all I am worried about is how not to gain most of the baby weight back after struggling hard to lose some of it before this visit. My mom has promised that she will make just one dish a day, not this variety that I cannot resist, and will try to keep it light :)