素食好主意 【印度烤奶豆腐串】Oven Baked Tandoori Paneer Tikka

我之前上过印度碳炉烤鸡的食谱。是一款用香料和酸乳酪腌过后在一种直立式圆形烤炉里烤制而成的。这种烤炉也是烤制印度馕的炉子，火力很强，烤出来的食物外酥内嫩，非常好吃。

相同的腌料可以腌制奶豆腐做成素的烤奶豆腐串，味道也特别棒呢！

I made a very yummy Oven Baked Tandoori Chicken couple of weeks ago, with the same marinate I also made these Tandoori Paneer Tikka, these tandoori duos are such a good starter for a party and taste absolutely yummy!

Homemade Garlic Spread 【蒜香黄油】

My mum left the states when baby A was only 1 week shy of 3 months old. NS had to start traveling for his work too, mum's flight was the same day as NS, I had to drop her to the airport that night as NS left a couple of hours before mum. Seeing them go one after another that day was really depressing. My motherhood was relatively manageable before that with mum and NS around, out of a sudden I am left alone with a young baby.That particular night was one of the hardest for me, I left the airport after dropping mum with baby A and cried my way home.

With NS traveling all the time and Baby A not sleeping well at night, I was struggling to do everything alone and was constantly nervous about my baby's well being. NS being a sweet husband had done his research and found a very good daycare near our house, he got us registered and I started sending Baby A two half days a week so that I could run some errands and get some (much needed) rest.

Since baby A was exclusively breastfed (and still is, it's been 18 months and counting.). I used to go to the daycare in between to feed him. Over time I befriend his teacher Miss Loretta, she is a gem of a person and one of the sweetest I have ever met. Her good nature and thorough care for baby A calms a nervous first time mum like me, and in no time I felt at ease leaving baby A with her to go about doing my own stuff.

That was the start of a long term friendship, we have been keeping in touch and exchanging foods ever since! To make a long story short. Miss Loretta sent me a homemade baguette few days ago. I decided to make cream of broccoli soup and some garlic bread from the baguette she sent for dinner.

In return I sent her some homemade garlic spread and soup!

俊宝还差一个星期就三个月整的时候我妈因为不放心我爸，就飞回家乡去了。同一天在家陪产的俊爸也必须出差工作。孩子出生之后一直都有俊爸和妈妈在身边，突然只剩下我和宝宝，对一个新手妈妈来说，压力还是有点大的。

俊爸的飞机比妈妈早几个小时，当天晚上我只好带着宝宝和俊宝的干妈一起送妈妈的机，从机场往回家的路上开的时候我的眼泪没有停止过。

俊爸知道我的不安，出差前就把我们家附近的daycare都给安排好了。妈妈回去后，我就开始一个星期送宝宝到daycare两个半天，主要是让我有点时间休息和做点家务。因为宝宝全母乳又不喝奶瓶，所以我中间会去daycare喂一次奶，渐渐地就和daycare的老师变成了朋友。后来她离开了那家daycare，我们仍然保持联系，我们两家住得很近，所以经常见面聊天，也经常交换美食。

前天她送来一根她自己做的法棍。当天我就做了西兰花浓汤和蒜香酱，把她送的法棍做成蒜蓉面包，很好吃哦！

Tofu Paratha (Tofu Flat Bread) 【豆腐烙饼】

I went shopping with my neighbor S couple of weeks ago, she asked if I know where to buy good silken tofu, so I brought her to an Asian market, I was curious what she wanted the silken tofu for, she told me that she makes tofu paratha and her kids loved it! 

She sends a few parathas to us later and my son A and I finished them all, they are very tasty and soft, not to mention high in protein!

So I wasted no time to ask for the recipe and made these parathas for NS over the weekends, he was also very impressed and had 6 parathas for his lunch!

Whoever created this parathas recipe is really a genius and whoever it might be, I say : " Thank you". 

前阵子和邻居S一起去买菜，她说想要找嫩豆腐，我就好奇了，她一个印度人怎么吃起嫩豆腐来了。原来她拿来做烙饼呢！

说是高蛋白还特别好吃。后来她做了几张送过来，我和俊宝当天晚餐吃了，俊宝很喜欢，吃了两张呢！想出这样中印结合的食谱的人一定是个热爱美食也热爱健康的人啊！

我后来向S要了食谱，周末俊爸出差回来我就做了这个豆腐烙饼。我根据俊爸的口味改了点。结果爷儿俩一个吃了六张一个吃了两张，果然口味相似啊！