Lentil’s Stuffed Indian Flat Bread
- 02
- April
- 2009
Moong dal Paratha: Dhall Roti. Dal Roti. Lentil’s Chappathi. Lentil’s Roti. When I was studying in New Delhi, my hostel cook…Kamalesh Roy cooked this for breakfast!! Some of you guessed it already, yeah…he fixed it with left over dhall!! According to me he is a gifted cook! A real cook doesn’t like to waste food…its […]
Chili Tofu
- 30
- March
- 2009
Chili Tofu: History of Tofu: Tofu was invented in China, about 2000 years ago! Although the exact details is hard to claim, the story goes like this…accidentally cook dropped the seaweed in a pot of soy milk…seen them curdle and throw up into Tofu! Tofu was introduced to Japan, as early as 8th Century, where […]
Tomato Special – Round Up !!
- 28
- March
- 2009
Country Chicken Tomato Curry: Fish in Rich Tomato based Curry:Thakkali Thokku: Araithu Vitta Rasam:Ramzaan Pachadi:Paneer Tomato Curry: Tomato Specials: Lycopene is an open-chain unsaturated carotene that imparts deep red color to the tomatoes! Lycopene is insoluble in water and soluble only in organic solvents and oil. The double bond present in them between 2 carbon […]
Fish Molee
- 26
- March
- 2009
Fish Molee: Kerala Fish Stew. Fish in Coconut Sauce. Meen Thengai-Paal Kuzhambu. Fish Moli. This fish was caught by AK’s friend Davi Doss from his home pond, at Water Valley, Mississippi. Although went for fishing couple of times with my cooking class crew, it really didnt budge any luck to me…only thing I wasted my […]
Hong Kong Table – Dim Sums
- 23
- March
- 2009
Hong Kong Table – Test Drive – Dim Sums!!!My friends chit-chatting!!:)Platter – Dim Sums.Cream buns with lotus seeds filling!Pork BBQ Sums(no idea about the taste)Lotus leaf wrapped Sticky rice(Leaf is not eaten tho’ hee hee) This was bit stinky to me!:(Shrimp Dumplings, everyone’s favourite! I fried these Sesame balls.Daphne & Suzete seriously cooking!Dim Sums: I […]
Keezhanelli Mor
- 21
- March
- 2009
Keezhanelli Mor: Phyllanthus amarus/ Phyllanthus nururui is the Botanical of this fragile plant! It is called Keezhanelli in Tamil. Keezh – Under/Underneath and Nelli – Berry/ goose berry/ amla!! This teeny plant has sesame seed sized leaves and underneath each leaf blade, it posses black mustard sized berries, which looks exactly like microscopic amla/gooseberry…Oh Tamilians […]
Plagiarism – Support my Fellow Blogger
- 20
- March
- 2009
Swapna from www.tiffinroom.blogspot.com has copied and duplicated my friend Usha Nandini’s picture, www.ushanandini.blogspot.com. Swapna has portrayed the picture, to appear has hers! Very talented to copyright the stolen picture! Aaah, what to say, wish she uses the same energy in cooking for herself or doing something productive than stealing! I know all my blogger friends […]
Fish Fries
- 18
- March
- 2009
Fish Fries: As usual I was playing with my food, in my kitchen! I had this bag of salmon lying in the freezer, for pretty long time! Actually, I thought of making finger fish…but didn’t like the fact of skinning the fish!! Aaah…that takes away all the good cholesterol, right! So…just like that, sliced them […]
Paneer Muttar Masala – from Kranthi’s Kitchen
- 17
- March
- 2009
Muttat Paneer Masala: My friend Kranti(from Herndon, Virginia) has generously contributed her recipe to my blog! I feel proud to display her recipe here!:) A few words about my best friend. We were hostel mates, back then at Hyderabad. Also serious Civil Services aspirants. I practically survived with her Mommy’s pickles and podis, at hostel. […]
Sweet Corn Soup – In Praise Of Hitting Repeat
- 16
- March
- 2009
Following random people on social media can quickly convince one that everyone’s life is better than mine! Hmmm, one such adventurous day on Instagram…I came across, friend’s friend’s skiing trip to Canada, trekking in Guatamala…and much more! Impulsively, I started looking for my own flight tickets to all these unknown places and started imagining all […]
