The food that I was fed in Navadarshanam every meal, every day was so amazing. 95% of the food was vegan but that never meant the taste was bland or there were cheap substitutes for anything. It was all delicious. 100% of the vegetables and almost all of the grains came from the garden that's on the property.
Here's a mini cucumber thing that was growing in the garden.
Its here that I learned how to eat with my hands, scooping up
the food like a shovel onto my fingers and then feeding myself. It
sounds easy but its hard not to drop anything, especially when I'm
trying to eat soup that is running through my fingers. We're taught in
the U.S. not to play with our food but in India that's how you eat it,
by mushing it around in your hand!
This is a
typical breakfast that I had, with some masala, a millet porridge, and
some bread with guava jam and peanut butter mixed with jaggery
(unprocessed sugar). I'd basically make a layer of porridge in my hand
and then scoop up some of the masala and eat it that way.
The following are three different lunch/dinner dishes with the different types of curry, gourd/green bean salad, red rice, ragi balls, sweet millet paste, spicy mango pickles and chutney, butter milk, and rice ghee. You can see that the ragi balls were my FAVORITE!
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