About This Volume
Volume I gave Annapurna Kitchen a month-by-month menu system: twelve season cards, seven-day rotations and 83 recipes. This companion volume deepens the kitchen's repertoire. It adds 169 further recipes — none repeated from Volume I — organised by course rather than by month, so a cook can open the right section and find a dish that fits the season, the guest and the day.
Before the recipes, Part A summarises what current research and regulation say about feeding people over 55 in India, about texture-modified food, about Ayurveda's classical restorative foods, and about cookware. Part C turns the recipes into twelve monthly menu plans, festival thalis and ingredient profiles; Part D is a complete, categorised list of the ingredients and tools a sattvic kitchen of this size needs, with buying, storage and quantity guidance.
How to read a recipe in this volume
| Element | Meaning |
|---|---|
| Recipe number (e.g. 3.07) | Section 3, recipe 7 — used in the index and nutrition table |
| Best season | When the dish suits the Haridwar season; match it to the Volume I month chapters (table below) |
| Texture | Plain description, or an IDDSI level for the soft & recovery dishes |
| Base qty / Café batch ×5 | Exact grams (ml for liquids) for the stated servings, and five times that for ≈ 20 guests |
| Per serving | Estimated energy, protein, fat, carbohydrate, fibre and salt from standard food-composition tables |
| Care notes & Ayurvedic note | How to adapt for older guests, and why the dish suits the season and doshas |
| Variations | Further dishes built on the same technique |
Pairing with Volume I
| Season tag | Volume I month chapters | Kitchen emphasis |
|---|---|---|
| Winter (Nov–Feb) | November · December · January · February | Nourishing: ghee, sesame, jaggery, roots and greens |
| Spring–summer (Mar–Jun) | March · April · May · June | Light then cooling: barley, bitter greens, gourds, coolers |
| Monsoon (Jul–Sep) | July · August · September | Kindle agni: ginger, pepper, rasams, well-cooked food |
| Autumn (Sep–Nov) | September · October · November | Pitta-cooling: milk, rice, coconut, pomegranate, ghee |
| All year | Any month | House staples and therapeutic dishes |
House rules carried over from Volume I
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