receipes n more

This is a quick and filling sandwich and goes really well as breakfast, evening snack or even   lunch box food for kids. While you will get an authentic version of this outside Santacruz (West) Station in Mumbai, India - a home made version nonetheless suffices the urge to have the sandwich even while you are miles away from that station.  Putting together a few ingredients is more apt than calling this one a receipe. However, just to make things routine, lets stick to the usual format. So here goes. Ingredients: 1 medium loaf of bread for say 8 sandwiches 2 boiled potatoes Butter for applying on the slices as well as for toasting / grilling the sandwich Chaat masala / Sandwich masala (optional) Grated cheese (processed) - quantity could be as follows: 1 cube per sandwich 2 cubes per sandwich ............so on and so forth............(he he he!!) Method: Cut the sides of bread. This is important because only then will you be able to devour the sandwich with

Reading about receipes and visualizing them has a great benefit. I stumbled upon this one when i combined a Thai curry receipe with my limited knowledge of putting ingredients together. Once again its a fairly simple receipe and i hope, you find it similar to a Thai curry,  just like my family did. Vegetarians - please omit the chicken and add potatoes or mushrooms - without marination and frying - add them along with other vegetables. However, do not forget to use some turmeric powder after adding onions - so that you do not miss out on that Thai Yellow Curry like colour :-) Although there is no lemon grass nor thai curry paste and no fish sauce neither kaffir lime leaves in it, just the effect of some plain soy sauce, sugar and coconut milk along with half a chicken stock cube seem to have done the trick here. I am tempted to equate this curry (due to its looks) to the Kerala chicken curry previously posted on this blog. But then the taste of these similar looking c

The summer's in India are getting worse every year. Airconditioning is no more a luxury and most of us look forward to opportunities for visiting the air conditioned malls. At home, glugging down juices made from lime, fresh fruits or concentrates is an hourly activity. Eating has taken a back seat. A cold yoghurt / dahi based raita is a perfect accompaniment and a delightful eat all by itself too. A traditional raita can be made with onions, tomatoes, cucumbers - all chopped finely and added to the yoghurt / dahi along with a pinch of salt, sugar (optional) and chopped green chillies (optional) - and tastes better when the yoghurt/ dahi is watered down a bit. This raita is usually an accompaniment for rice based dishes like pulao's and biryani's. Then there are the boondi (fried bengal gram flour based snack) raita's and the aaloo (potato) raita's and the sweeter version of a pineapple raita too. All in all, a raita is sumptuous (because it is yoghurt - protein