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The tooth extraction special!

I've been making too many rounds to the dentist lately, and the evening before my first extraction, as I was walking around the grocery store, I was struck with a massive, irrational panic that I won't be able to eat for a long time. So I bought a lot of food, and then the morning of, I spent an hour cooking soups to get through the rest of the day.

Spinach Soup:
Heat some oil (and a small knob of butter), add chopped ginger, garlic and white onion. Saute till soft. Add baby spinach, and saute. Also add one chopped tomato, salt, and lots of pepper. Add some water and let it cook for a bit. Once cool, also add a handful of fresh mint leaves, some milk and a dash of lime. Blend using the hand blender. (The mint gives a great flavor! Thanks to Tarla Dalal)

https://www.tarladalal.com/Palak-Shorba-Punjabi-Spinach-Soup-30869r

White pumpkin and daal soup:

If I have more of this often, I bet I would lose a lot of weight. It was also delicious. In the instant pot, heat oil, add cumin, onions, ginger and garlic (heavy on the garlic). Saute till lightly brown. Add washed green mung daal, and lots of big chunks of white pumpkin (the kind used in making sambhar). Add turmeric, red chilli powder, coriander powder, salt and water, and put on "porridge" mode. After it's cooked, blend with a hand blender. Eat it with some yoghurt. Super hearty (and nutritious, and tasty too!).

Papaya + Orange juice + honey + lime juice. Blend. This tastes good (but I'm not allowed acidic food now, so I'll wait another day or two, or L. will finish it).

Other ideas for days when the teeth are not too happy:
Instant oats
cream of rice
Different kinds of khichdis
khichu
seera
Garmanu
Apple sauce
hallah bread
creamy peanut butter and seedless jam
mashed potatoes
cooked sweet potatoes
Soups: Mashroom, cauliflower, butternut squash, carrot and coconut, peas, almond
Smoothies/milkshakes: banana and protein powder,  banana and peanut butter
Icecream
Smooth guacamole










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