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Happy Holidays and may the best be yet to come!!!!


Here's to 2011!!!!!!!


Ten Great Tips For 2011


1. Stay out of trouble.


2. Aim for greater heights.


3. Stay focused on your job.


4. Exercise to maintain good health.


5. Practice team work.


6. Rely on your trusted partner to watch your back. Take your time trusting others.


7. Save for rainy days.


8. Rest and relax


9. Always take time to smile.


AND


10.. Realize that nothing is impossible.




THE SENILITY PRAYER :
Grant me the senility to forget the people
I never liked anyway,
The good fortune to run into the ones I do, and
The eyesight to tell the difference.


Now, . .you are supposed to share this with a bunch of your friends.




And remember this:
"You don't stop laughing because you grow old,




You grow old because you stop laughing!!!"

Soya Bean and Methi Paratha

We had a sweet old couple living near us they have now shifted to Mumbai.  I used to make it a point to meet them everyday in the evening after Office. The old gentleman whom my kids used to call Ajoba was my feedback on politics, current affairs etc and the lady whom we called Ajji used to share a lot of tips recipes and general gossip.  

 She told me to how to make Soya bean curd or whatever the lump is called and she told me she had watched paratha made on the TV. I tried it and was very happy that I could get in a whole grain in the form of  a Paratha which is highly appreciated here at my home.

The rest is all how I make parthas at home. I have used methi you can use palak, pumpkin bottle gourd anything.

Ingredients:

10 grms Soya bean, soaked over night

1 cups methi leaves, chopped fine

Coriander leaves chopped

Mint leaves (optional)

1 onion, roughly chopped

2 green chillies (adjust as per taste)

 ½ inch piece of ginger

5 cloves garlic

3 cups Wheat flour

Red chilli powder

Turmeric

2 tsp powdered cumin

1 tsp powdered coriander seeds

A big fat pinch of hing/asafoetida

Sesame seeds

Salt

Method:

1.       Peel the soaked Soya bean seeds. 

2.Then grind them to a fine paste in the mixer use water if you feel the need.

3.       Pour the paste in a kadhai and heat it on low flame till it clumps together. Let it cool.

4.       Grind the mint, coriander, chillies, ginger, garlic and onion in the mixer to a fine paste.

5.       Mix all the ingredients to soft dough.

6.       Make balls and roll out into circular shape.

7.       Roast on hot tava.

8.       Serve with curds, tomato chutney.

Here I have served with curds and stuffed capsicum.

Ghhat Varan

When I was newly married I wondered why my MIL boiled extra Toor daal and kept a big ball of it in the fridge. But being very vague about the quantities needed and totally inexperienced I kept quiet.

The reply to my question was in the evening when guests dropped in and were to have food. The way this ball of daal was transformed was amazing not only is it tasty, high in protein content it is also easily made.

The meaning of Ghhat is thick or hard Varan is daal in Marathi so in English it will translate as hard cereal?

Ingredients:

Boiled toor daal (say about the size of a tennis ball)

 1 or 2 Onions, chopped fine

1 tblspn thick tamarind juice

A marble sized ball of jaggery

2 tblspn oil

Mustard

Hing/asafoetida

Jeera

Turmeric

Red chilli powder

Salt

Coriander

Method:

1.       Soak the jaggery in the tamarind juice.

2.       Mix in the onion and toor daal ball land salt.

3.       Heat the oil add the mustard, jeera, hing/asafoetida, turmeric, lastly red chilli powder. This is the vagarni/phodni/bhagar.

4.       Mix immediately in the bhagar.

5.       Garnish with coriander and serve with chapatti.

Grilled Sandwich

My younger daughter, Akanksha, carries breakfast to school. So everyday is a big problem if I give her something like jam toast she does not like it. Cheese toast is also a no-no but she loves grilled sandwiches.

At home she is willing to eat it as open toast but in school she carries it as grilled sandwich.

Ingredients:

To make the filling

½ cup rava

½ green capsicum

½ red capsicum

1 cup cabbage, grated

¼ cup Cauliflower, grated

1 carrot

1 cube of cheese, grated
1/2  cup cream

Salt

sugar(optional)

 I tblspn tomato sauce

Coriander

Sliced bread

Method:

1.       Mix all the ingredients except the bread slices.

2.       Stand the mixture for at least ½ an hour.

3.       Spread on the bread slice if you are making a sandwich put another slice and grill for a open sandwich put on a lightly greased tava and fry only one side.

4.       Serve hot with tomato ketchup or green chutney.