I never thought I would ever get an opportunity to sample working and discovering a new city but thanks to a great boss and husband moving bases, this opportunity landed in my lap. So here I am in Mumbai, trying out new stuff to cook for dinner and trying out new tastes. I am consciously…
Samosas— Yaaaay!!!
I have already conquered the gujiyas... and very close on its heels (like the same day).... was the mighty Samosa!!! So here's the dope on that.... Filling: We made VEG peas and potato filling. Very simple, non-spicy so kids could also have it. But I'll tell you some alternatives. Masalas we used: Salt, garam masala, jeera powder. Use…
Holi is gujiya time… :)
So this Holi I tried Gujiyas at home... with Mom, and maid's help of course... I was a bit scared to try it on my own... Mom gathered up the initial enthu!! Well... to my surprise it quite easy !! (Funny how that comes to you when you have been avoiding it for years)!! So I thought…
Trying out Chicken Saltimbocca…
Ok, here;s a recipe that I improvised from Rouxbe (http://rouxbe.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&type=recipes&q=chicken+saltimbocca) It's much easier to cook recipes from cookbooks and websites now : 1) Ingredients are now more easily available and 2) The authors make sure they provide the Indian name, or a recipe to make something (so there are recipes within recipes)... it still took much longer than I…
Recipe – chicken seekh kebabs
Cooking non vegetarian food at home has been pretty lean for me as I happen to be the only consumer in my vegetarian sasural. Not that I don't cook for myself but somehow one needs quite a bit of drive to go through the process of buying, freezing, thawing, cleaning, cutting, marinating, cooking 200 grams…
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