::Vermicelli Biryani::

So I've only cooked a few times with our cooks, but this is one of my favorite recipes for a breakfast food.  I'm going to ask Sailija for all the specific names of the food so maybe the recipes can be found online.  For this specific one it looks like there's a lot of different ways people make it... and this one seems like it would be better.  

Vermicelli Biryani

(Ok, that's not my own picture, so this looks slightly different, but pretty much the same)

Ingredients: a handful of peanuts, cashews, yellow daal and white/idli daal, onions, potatoes, carrot, curry leaves, ginger, salt, green chili, vermicelli noodles, oil.

• Brown the vermicelli noodles (without oil) in a large, deep frying pan and set aside.
• Fill pan with oil and fry peanuts, daal, white daal, and last the cashews (use a generous amount of oil—these things should be swimming)
• Once the nuts and white daal are brown, add chopped onion, carrot, potato (two small or one big potato), sliced chili (if you wanna pick it out after… which I definitely do… because it tastes disgusting if you just eat it) to the oil.  Stir. 
• Add about 4? Cups of water and curry leaves and cook.  Add salt (about a Tablespoon)
• After some time, add the noodles and let sit for about ten minutes, stirring occasionally.
• I don’t know when you’re supposed to add some of that ginger… don’t be too generous because it tastes very strongly… let’s say—add it now!
• Once noodles are cooked let it sit for a while.

This should take about 30-45 minutes to prepare.  And voila!  Comida!!!

A group of the traditional south Indian foods.

This is dosa (the bread) with a cheesy, potatoe kind of sauce.  That is the vermicelli biryani there also.

Rice, potatoes, cooked carrots and cabbage, green banana...

They make this cheesy bread for us with onions and tomatoes which is really good, but I'm not sure whether or not that's traditional.  The white stuff is a coconut chutney.  (My favorite is a tomato chutney they make)

This is my favorite soup.  Sorry, it's not a great picture--I will get another one and the recipe as well.