Merry Christmas!

Palappam with Vegetable Stew and Kadala Curry: our breakfast on this wet, cold Christmas morning.

Semiya Upma

under incandescent lamp

under sunlight

Near perfect Semiya Upma, our lunch today. Followed this ingredient list but all cooking was done in a saute pan (unlike the five i might end up with according to the recipe) with two and half cups of water (again, unlike the advised seven!).

From Wikipedia:

about Upma

about Semiya

Palappam and Stew

Palappam (Recipe by Anu Aunty)

malayalam translated to english
Pal is milk (here the reference is to coconut milk)
Appam roughly translates to bread and is also called Hopper(s)

Vegetable Stew