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  Egg Malai Masala  Its fun when things turn out as they should. I pureed the onions and then cooked them well. I added the milk for the egg Malai Masala and made chicken curry with other half of the onion base. I used kasoori methi in both. Many times I have felt the onions grainy, but this time I got it right. Patience.

  cashew and coconut  chole curd in paneer When I looked at the two recipes, I realised that they both had onion and tomato base and once that is cooked, I could fork it off into individual curries, which made the operation easy. Due to the extra addition, each had their own identity. I would have tried the last week's recipes, but its not me to repeat recipes. There is always this divide between wanting it to come out in a known way and then wanting to try some new recipe. I am feeling great about the gravy curries, in terms of maintaining the proportion of the main item like paneer or chole. Isnt it to great to make some adjustments to your cooking style and see great results. 

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  chole curry  with cashew, poppy seeds, tomato and onions. What I learned with this gravy is to not add all the boiled chole and just maintain the ratio such that there is more gravy. It looked exactly like the video. I am getting the hang of gravies.  I made aloo curry with sesame seed paste.

 You might have noticed the big hiatus in my baking like the end of this probably Ted Hughes poem where a room full of toys strewn here and there is about a deserted place. Recently we had a spate of bananas. Didnt want to make banana bread and made somethign referred to as kela rabri without realising it. Made it with boiled milk, condended milk, ripe bananas and bonus coconut. Still there were more ripe bananas to use. Having found this  banana roll  recipe and confirming that we have yeast. I jumped into the preparation and was happy with the yeast doing its job. Later as we revise notes, I was going through the recipe and forgot that milk and butter went into it. Still it turned out great. I am happy to have broken the quiet spell of baking.

 I have made lava cakes in ramekins many times before but this time we have many guests that I want to regale with this  muffin tin chocolate lava cakes . I had  paneer lababdar  in a flight. I found the name fascinating. I will get to try it out this time. I should try this  ginger tea  with mixing the tea often.