My Bachelor friends!!

Bachelors.... what a word right? To everyone that would mean an unkempt house, clothes strewn everywhere.. late nights with booze binges and eating at restaurants or calling for tiffins.

Ugh!What an image! But to my surprise when i visited a friend recently who not only had a clean house, was a teetotaler, and love to make food. So keeping in mind the fact that he's new to cooking.. i thought why not give a recipe for a fried pakora that doesnt need a lot of ingredients and can be done in 30 min flat. So here goes..

2 cups of semolina (rava)
2 medium sized onions finely chopped
3-4 green chillies finely chopped
2-3 tbsp curds
Salt to taste and a pinch of sugar.
Oil to fry

Take the semolina in a bowl, add the chillies, onions and the curd and mix thoroughly into a paste. Keep mining it till the semolina and the other ingredients mix completely and form a dough.
Make about 12-15 small balls of the dough. then flatten them on your palm
Now heat about 4-5 tbps of oil
After that fry them golden brown and pat dry with a tissue to soak excess oil.

P.S: This pakora is called Madur vadai, and is usually made by the Southies who so live bhajiya's of all sorts.
if you like this fast pakora.... and want me to write some more just say so in your comment.
Hope you like this and will surely try it out.

My way is to have it with seviyan wali kheer! Um yum...............

Tuesday here I come...!!!

Whew,

Its been a tiring morning what with running after the train , and then getting into work. Just had coffee and was finishing up on mails before I get lost in the days work thought, I'd pen my thoughts for today.
Its been hectic all of last week what with running behind schedule and racing to have everything done by closing... which happens to be today. And ofcourse thinking up new ideas... which i am doing while writing this also doesnt leave time to contemplate how to go about doing other things I love.
However I have decided that come tomorrow I am do something drastic.. and change the way i do things!!!

By the way guys and gurls it's April Fool's tomorrow!! Hope you have an ace up your sleeve to scare up the boss!!
Good luck to you and me too.......

Do write in your comments with how you spent your April Fools day!!

Hey Guys,

Its a Sunday.. a day to relax so i guess i don't have a tip for you but would definitely like to say something.
Sunday a lazy day all round, but we can still do a lot of things can't we like writing up this blog, getting ready to make brunch.. something between the breakfast and the lunch.

This idea of a brunch is fantastic.. when it leaves most of the afternoon free to follow your hobby.
Like picking up a book you wanted to read for a long time but didn't have the energy or the time to do so.

And finally guys ever tried eating steamed Idli's with Mutton curry? If you think its weird... I guarantee you will have your audience smacking their lips if you give them something like that..

May be I can entice you with a recipe for the curry so that you can try making it.. I love food and try to come up with winning combination this is one of those.

For the curry:
1 kg mutton (goat's meat)
4 big onions (two diced finely, and the remaining two just sliced)
6-7 green chillies slit
A small cube of fresh coconut just enough to make the base thick..
4-5 cashews
2-3 tbsp of fresh coriander leaves
1tsp turmeric powder
1tsp chilly powder
1tsp coriander powder
1tsp cumin powder
1/2 tsp of pepper powder
1 tsp of garam masala (5 spices powder that includes cinnamon, cloves, black pepper, star anise and nutmeg)
1 big lime
Salt to taste

Method:
Dry roast the sliced onions, the coconut, coriander leaves, chillies, cashews together while continuously stirring so that they don't burn. Once done, allow them to cool and then grind them together into a fine paste
Wash the mutton thoroughly first and then add the turmeric powder, chilly powder, coriander, cumin and pepper powder to it. Mix the mutton completely so that the spices coat the pieces finely. Squeeze a lime over it and keep it aside for sometime.

In a small wok pour the oil (if the mutton has a lot of fats then use very less refined oil). Heat the oil and then add the diced onions. saute them lightly till pink then add the paste you made earlier to the wok. Mix it thoroughly and keep frying till the paste starts leaving the sides of the wok. Once its done add the mutton to this and mix so that both the mutton and the paste form a sort of a curry , then add a little bit of water to this (depending on the kind of curry you want).
You have an option to put all this in a pressure cooker and pressure cook for 15-20 min. For the ten min cook on high flames and then lower the heat an allow to cook.

Once done let the pressure release before you open the cooker. After that test it to check if completely done.
Serve it with hot steaming idli's.

P.S you can use the same recipe for chicken if you love that more. However take care not to pressure cook chicken as your liable to get just bones as the meat for almost dissolve. Chicken does not take long to cook. If you are a veggie u can always use potatoes,cauliflower and peas or any combination of these three.


I hope everyone love the taste and do leave your comments once you have tried it.

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• Think of an image and tag it on to the most important thing. Imagine this once or twice till it strikes a chord.
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HI

This is the first time i am writing a blog so please do put forth your comments if any on how I can improve my way of writing.
Its just a small effort on my part to put forth some ideas that made my life easier and happier. Some of these tips were given to me by my beloved grandma, so i really do follow them.
If you feel you have a tip for me feel free to tell me.. I would love to know what you think about my tips.

This blog is my connection to the others that may think like me or differently. Hope you enjoy following this as much as I enjoy putting it up.