Learning from TV

I like watching cook shows for the simple reason that I get to learn a new dish to cook....I learned a very simple recipe y'day while watching Rhodes to India...a simple chicken wrap...in other words Chicken Roll...its easy to make and good to taste...m planning to make it this weekend..will soon upload the pic.

How abt some biryani........

Chicken Biryani...I've always loved it...esp the chicken Biryani at Lucky's, Bandra, Mumbai....to me chicken briyani is another thing of beauty...like chicken tandoori I feel its another human's best invention....I learned making biryani from Nita Mehta's cookbook....I've tried few ways of cooking a biryani and from all my experiments I feel Nita Mehta's one is the best and easiest....at home everyone loves the biryani I cook... I cooked at che-tra's flat in delhi and at my cousin che-Noucha's place back home...the biryani was yummy and well...I got some good compliments....the most imp. thing about chicken biryani is masala's we use and the correct proportion of all ingredients....but the secret I guess for making anything yummy is the care and attention one pay during cooking

Yummyyy

Hilsh/ Ilish mach

I absoultely love illish mach, I can have ilish for breakfast, lunch, dinner and for tea also . The first ilish mach I had was at Kolkata, at Amrita's grand dad's place.....amrita's granny made the most amazing ilish mach I've ever had in my life...better then the Sankar's here.

This one I cooked few days back...it does cost quit alot these days. I bought for 250 bucks a kilo, sometimes it can go up to 400/500 bucks a kilo but those ilish are the really big ones. This recipe is simple but requires some bit of patience but the result......... too good.

Rajmah curry-One of my fav

As kid I always liked Rajmah curry and looked fwd to meals when mumma cooked rajmah. In manipur we get the fresh rajmah "koli hawai" I like koli hawai and aloo kangsoi thongba, its one of my all time fav. manipuri food. When in college our canteen served really good Rajmah-Chawal for 10 bucks and it almost became a ritual for me to have rajmah-chawal and Rinchen(my very good fren) to have chole bhature every day....I still miss that phase of life. Our MH college canteen really served good food till we were in college after that the caterer was changed and food turned real bad I guess;....abhi pata nahi kya haal hai.

Talking abt Rajmah curry, I learned making good rajmah curry from my fren AD and cracked the secret behind real punjabi yummy rajmah....when you boil rajmah add salt, ginger, garlic,red chili powder, black peppercorn,dalchini,ilichi and long (Cloves).....onion paste, dhania powder and red chilies powder...some curd and the final result....yummy rajmah's you could ever have on the face of this earth...the pic. is above.... I cooked it for my mum and  mum really liked the rajmah  and  whenever m home Mum always insists I cook Rajmah when she invites guests for dinner....

Living alone and loving it

One of the most coolest thing abt living alone is getting to cook/eat watever I want. Whatever I cook I cook depending on my mood...I can have breakfast items at dinner time or vice-versa... I can simply have just soup and some salad for dinner if m in no mood to cook...or have chicken curry for breakfast...koi hai nahi bolne ko...and thats wat I like best abt living alone.

Some of my frens think I'll sure get insane if I continue living alone but unko kaun batayeh ke akele rehne mei jo baat hai woh sayad kahen aur nahi...I don't intend to live alone always once...m hoping next year I'll get to live with my loved ones...cook for them...and make life a lil more sweet with their love and care...till them I continue to enjoy my living alone...cheers

August mei kya hoga..

The first blog of the month...and this month I'll try and make my blog as interesting as possible...alot is expected to happen this month and lets hope I am able to take out time from all the work and keep blogging...