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Wednesday, 26 December 2012

Kids Delight~ Story Book Special Round up

Stories that is what we listen to as kids first at our parents, grandparents feet, then we were introduced to books.

And then it was an introduction to whole new foods. So When Srivalli and I choose this as our theme for Kids Delight I was thrilled and knew I would get exciting entries.

So let get down to the roundup dears as we are all eager to know what the other person loves in food in books.

So here it is all

1. Stick Toffee Chocolate Blondies Sweet 'n' Savoury

2.Vegetarian Tacos By Foody-Buddy

3. Eggless Chocolate and Nuts Mug Cake with Orange by Cookbookjaleela

4. Cabbage Cheese Moneybags

5.Chinese Spring Roll

6.Palak Pepper Chapatti Ommelete

7.Turkish Delight by Caroline Makes

8.Classic Cup Cakes by Ghar Ka Khana

9. Eggless Chocolate Fudge Brownies by Food-O-Mania

10. Chocolate Griddle Cake by Food-O-Mania

11.Cornmeal Porridge by Chef Mirreille's Global Creations

12.Semiya Laddus from Erivumpuliyumm

13.Pumpkin Pasties from Harry Potter by Kirthi's Kitchen

14.Cupcakes with rose flavored buttercreamfrosting by Laavya's Kitchen

15.Fruit pani puri by Desi Fiesta

16.Masala Cone by Desi Feista

17. T he Very Hungry Caterpillar! by My Kitchen Trials

18.Butterbeer Latte by My Kitchen Trials

19.Wonderland Drink Me Potion by My Kitchen Trials

20.Eggless Blueberry Scone by Nivedhanam

21.Baked Mozzrella Sticks by Home Cook Food

22.Baked Samosa Rolls by Home Cook Food

23.Garlic Bread Sticks by Home Cook Food

24.No Bake Chocolate Chip Oats Bar by Home Cook Food

25.Snow White Pudding By Rani's Gourmet

26.Easy Peasy Pulao Vegan By The Yogi Vegetarian

27.Eggless Vanilla Cake by Seduce your Tastebuds

28.Sukku Kapi by Seduce your Tastebuds

29 Masala Oats Porridge by Seduce your Tatsebuds

30.Paal Payasam by My Cooking Journey

31.Spicy Fried Tofu by My Cooking Journey

32.Rasagulla by My Cooking Journey

33.Cheese Quesadilla by My Cooking Journey

34.Vendakkai/Ladies Finger Curry/ Okra curry(Okra dry curry made the South Indian style) by My Cooking Journey

35. Carrot Tomato Chutney by My Cooking Journey

36.ChickPeas (Garbanzo Beans) Cucumber Salad(Mediterranean Style) by My Cooking Journey

37.Homemade Oven Fries (herbed) by My Cooking Journey

38.Palak Channa (Chickpeas simmered in spinachgravy) by My Cooking Journey

39. Chocolate Hazelnut and Almond cookies By The Turmeric Kitchen

40. Butter Beer by The Mad Scientist's Kitchen.

Thanks all of you. I am sorry that many of your contributions I have not acknowledged personally. Please excuse me as... no more excuses just Sorry. But I appreciate all your entries and Thanks to you thisis an excellent event. I did not expect 40 entries. Thanks to Srivalli for giving me this opportunity and readily agreeing to this theme.

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Sunday, 23 December 2012

Awards

This was an award that I had received ages ago but I never got to posting it. Sorry Sukanya and Thanks.

Here goes

Here is a 7*7 award. This 7*7 tagging is your golden ticket to showcase your good, bad and ugly post along with a secret wish ;-) about your, yourself that you have to share with the world. So here we go …

A secret wish? It’s just that,a secret.

The Most Beautiful Piece: Macaroni Supreme as it’s what my daughter made as Chef and we loved it.

Most Helpful Piece: Soothing Dalia Soup it helped me the most.

Most Popular Piece: Milkmaid Eggless Cake never thought this will still be the most popular piece.

Most Controversial Piece: None as yet

Most Surprisingly Successful Piece: CornDhokla, Chocolate Pudding

Most Underrated Piece: CheeseCrackers

Most Pride-worthy Piece: Egg lessQuiche

And one more Sunshine Award that Pallavi has tagged me with. Thanks Pallavi.

The Rules:

§ If you are nominated you must include the link in a blog, linking to the person/blog that nominated you.

§ You must answer some questions and nominate 10 fellow bloggers and link their blogs in your post. Let the people you have nominated know that you have nominated them!

Here come the questions and answers:

1. Who is your favorite philosopher?

Huh? We do not exist on the same planet.

2. What is your favorite number?

0 ,Zero.

3. What is your favorite animal?

Myself.

4. What are your Facebook and Twitter URLs?

Twitter@ https://twitter.com/APotdar

Facebook @ https://www.facebook.com/themadscientistskitchen

5. What is your favorite time of day?

The time I am fast asleep

6. What was your favourite vacation?

Since I prefer to look forward it’s the next one we plan to take.

7. What is your favorite physical activity?

Heating the chair but hardly get a chance now it’s just work, work & work for now.

8. What is your favorite non-alcoholic drink?

Citrus Blue.

9. What is your favorite flower?

Mogra or jasmine.

10. What is your passion?

To cook better than yesterday

And finally these awards go to:

1. +Swasti

2. + Gauri

3. + Mytheryi

4. + Swati

5. +Priya

6. +Priya

7. +Gayathri

8. + Archana

9. +Jayanthi Lakshmin

10.+Vasishali Sabnani

Thursday, 20 December 2012

Butter Cholay

Birthday are celebrated in a big way in our Office. The birthday boy or girl is expected to throw a treat big or small and we all wait for the treat. Greedy gluts that we all are J . Generally we have something that is quite filling. Like bhaji pav (not pav bhaji mind you but bhaji pav--the Goan style), or chaat, idli vada etc.

The wishing done bouquet handed over and the food devoured at our worktables we are all back to work.

We discuss what have just eaten and the ingredients and how I make it and …. You get the general idea.

This time around when we were served bhaji pav, I was a bit busy so I just looked at the red bhaji and wondered what the stuff was and continued with what was at hand. After I finished my call my neighbour told me to just taste the bhaji and see. Fearing the worst I tasted just the bhaji and was transported to those carefree days when weight was not a problem. Tucking food in was not tucking in sugars, cholesterol and it was sheer pleasure.

The gravy was butter chicken gravy and cholay buried under the gravy!! Something that I had forgotten about!! How can I not make it at home? Then not share it here, my wonderfully supportive family in the Blog World, especially since I can still hear the compliments that came my way.

Well taking into consideration that hubby and FIL need to take care of cholesterol I avoided khoya or mava. I felt that the dish was not exactly butter chicken gravy but came close to it but like I said I had no complaints.

Do not let the long ingredients list put you off. It’s all there in your pantry.

Ingredients:

· 250 grams Cholay, soaked overnight and boiled

· 4 onions, peeled and cut in coarse pieces

· 3 big tomatoes, blanched

· 1 bulb garlic

· 1 inch piece of ginger

· ½ tsp coriander seed

· 1/8 tsp jeera

· 1 inch piece of cinnamon

· 1 Clove

· 2-3 pepper corns

· 1 green cardamom

· 1 tsp red chilli powder

· ¼ tsp pav bhaji masala

· 1 Badi elichi (optional)

· ¼ cup magza seed or melon seeds (substitute with cashew nut say 2 tblsp or 8 -10 seeds)

· 1 cup thick milk ( I used left over milk that had become quite thick with repeated heating)

· 1 tbspn kasuri methi

· Oil

· butter

· Salt

· Sugar to taste

Method:

1. Boil the onions in a little water. Drain and transfer to the mixer jar.

2. In the chutney pot of the mixer grind the magza seeds (toast them first).

3. Grind the onion, garlic, ginger, coriander seeds, jeera, clove, cinnamon, pepper corns, cardamom to a fine paste.

4. In a thick kadhai/wok add the oil and then the butter. Add the badi elichi if using and fry.

5. Add the ground paste to the oil butter mix and stir fry on low flame till the oil separates.

6. As this is frying add the blanched and peeled tomatoes to the mixer jar and puree the tomatoes.

7. Add the pureed tomatoes to the kadhai/wok and fry till oil separates.

8. Add the toasted magza seeds and stir.

9. Add the boiled cholay, kasuri methi, salt and let it boil for a few minutes. When the gravy thickens a bit add the milk and bring to boil again.

10. Adjust the seasoning add the pav bhaji masala and the red chilli powder and let the gravy thicken.

11. Serve hot with rotis, puri or even steamed rice.

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Tuesday, 18 December 2012

Round Up Fast Food not Fat Food The Oil/Butter Challenge

When Priya and I were discussing the Fast Food not Fat Food that I was to host we were looking for Fast Food but Healthy food!
Healthy in the sense we eat a lot of oil/butter so we were trying to see if the oil factor can be controlled in the fast food.
I frankly did not expect many entries. My expectation was 10 max and was pleasantly surprised to see 22 entries.
So here is the round up of the delicious healthy fast food.
from Amrita of Mittu loves Cooking.
1. Asparagus Tossed in Garlic Butter and SesameSeeds.