Feline Musings

Today, I tried making parathas with spicy gram flour fillings and it came out well. The stuffing can also be used to make Kachoris. Here’s the recipe:

I cribbed about cooking in the humidity and the heat. Hubby decided to make life easier for me and brought in a loaf of bread; a rarity in our home. I guiltily served bread and omelets for breakfast and stashed away the remaining loaf into the fridge. It was parathas again for breakfast the next [...]

To prepare both the recipes you first need to boil the colocasia- three whistles on high heat and one on low when using a pressure cooker. Allow the colocasia to cool and then peel off the skin.

When hubby came from office, I added Bacardi white rum, and soda. The mint-leaves floated to the top, and I realized we needed straws. So we quickly walked down to the local juice shops and got two straws. We retrieved the chilling drink from the refrigerator, and sipped our way into many more years of marital bliss.

The cashew-cream-tomato curry can be used as the gravy base for roasted potato, boiled chicken drumsticks, curd-marinated and pressure-cooked mutton pieces and even soaked-boiled gram. I used diced paneer in my dish.

Poha or flattened rice is an easy-to-cook snack or breakfast meal. However, one needs to mix the ingredients right and follow a certain method to get the perfect flavor.

My lunch menu and plan turned upside down at 9:30 am, with a very short notice to cater for piping hot home-made brunch (snacks). The two guests were now scheduled to arrive at 11:30 am. I was anxious and had shaky fingers and an accelerated-Ferrari-like heartbeat for some minutes. But there was no escape and I had to get-set-go with the brunch preparation.

I remember asking for crunchy fried rice in a Chinese restaurant and being served a bowl of onion sautéed puffed rice, for a ridiculously high price.

The hubby is fasting for navratra. He has one full meal in twenty-four hours, intercepted with fruit, tea and juice. On Sunday, the first day of the fast, I planned for his lunch and had a scrumptious meal ready. The only thing missing in the menu was a home-made drink or shake to make it [...]

The simplest of dish becomes significant when it comes to your rescue at a could-have-turned-embarrassing hour. And when the dish is also appreciated by the people to whom it is served, you can give yourself a pat on your back.  
Cheese and eggs have always been my favorites to cook up a quick and tasty meal. [...]

Yes, I am back with more matrimonial settlement issues. Now this is one issue that my mom had warned me about - the striking of the perfect culinary chord between an herbivore and a carnivore. Hubby is a vegetarian (he eats egg – thank God for small mercies); I am a hardcore carnivore.  
In the good [...]