Pradyot's Second Birthday & Weekly Menu Plan

Last week our little boy turned two. Since it was in the middle of the week, we had a quite breakfast celebration at home 

and later in the day we took a big cake for his friends and teachers at the daycare. A simple Vanilla cake with Vanilla Frosting.. all from the store, just as they had specified from the daycare.  The kids loved it and we did too... 

With that in mind I had prepared a simple Vanilla cake with Cool Whip frosting for the party that we had arranged on Saturday. 

The cake did not look brilliant but it tasted good... the M&M and gum balls did a good job of hiding all the icing imperfections.. so it wasn't all that bad :) but what turned out really good were these Whole Wheat Sugar Cookies...

these Whole Wheat Star Cheese Crackers...  

and the Mashed Potato Croquettes which I forgot to photograph... They looked attractive and tasted really good. However there weren't many littles to enjoy them :(  We had invited Pradyot's classmates from the daycare for a play-date... Had hung a few balloons and a birthday banner on the wall to get them a little excited. But unfortunately none of his friends could make it. So it was just us, our family friend, the Nayaks and a table of little treats. I won't lie, at first I was disappointed by the fact that no one turned up.. but looking back i think it wasn't so bad. The Nayaks have two sons and the boys did enjoy themselves choo-chooing the trains, rolling down the bean bag, playing with the balloons and grabbing a snack from the table every now and then. Since all three were constantly on the move, we couldn't take any photographs containing the three in a single frame. Also after a while we stopped bothering about photographs. Everyone simply felt at home and it was nice to spend an afternoon with friends and toddler-approved snacks :)  

All in all we had a nice time and I guess the little one enjoyed the party too...
I intend to update you with all the recipes over the week... for now here is this week's menu at Ma Niche...

	This Week's Menu Plan
Sunday	Moong Dal with Spinach, Carrot Coconut Subzi
Monday	Gozleme with Black Masoor Dal and Briami
Tuesday	Oats Khichudi and Steamed Broccoli and Carrots for toddler's lunch  Moong Dal, Potato-Green Beans Stir Fry and Steamed Rice
Wednesday	Savory Pumpkin Souffle, Apple Escarole Salad and Pumpkin Bread
Thursday	Sabudana Khichudi & Baked Sweet Potato fries for toddler's lunch Leftover Black Masoor Dal, Phulkopir Dalna(Bengali Cauliflower Curry) and Steamed Rice
Friday	Dinner Rolls with Minestrone
Saturday	Leftovers

Sharing this with Meal Plan Monday @ Organizing Junkie

and Meal Plan Monday at The Diary of a Real Housewife.

p.s : For those interested we printed the letters for the birthday banner from here... and bought the subway t-shirts for Pradyot and his Dad's tshirt  from the New York Transit Museum  Store.