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Today I had Rainbow trout  for lunch at elephant Bar. Recently I watched Chopped on food network where one of the ingredients was trout. The judges mentioned that deboning it has to be done skillfully or it could take forever. There's a special fillet knife  to do the Deboning

Today, I will make tomato pappu . My dad made this a lot when we were kids and my mom was away on election duty. My mom hates tomatoes and dad cant have curry without tomato. I tried the way of cooking the dal along with tomato, it didnt quite get there, so I want  to try this recipe where tomatoes are added after the boil.                                                                                                                                                                                                       Plan changed to Sambhar. We had to make another dish watery like rasam, instead we upgraded with the boiled daal we had. My friend made this with shallots an drumsticks.   Looking at the potatoes, beans, carrots, peas, I feel like making a curry with them, but this aloo matar  is working its charms even with fewer vegetables. Day before I tried  beerakaya pappu  . The step about boiling tamarind with dal didnt go well with me, resultant dal didnt get cooked as well. A

On a recent vacation, I realised that for Hyderabadis, chicken Biryani is a quintessential lunch provided to guests. In each house, I have been finding about the recipes. One bakes, another cooks on the stove top. I followed a mishmash of recipes and each time its turning out different. For friday night, I made Orange BBQ Drumsticks  and Hot and Chili Chicken . They turned out good. 450F did it. when I opened the oven, I smelt the doneness. And me thought that chicken wings are fried. I like the spin of using marmalade fo the citrus flavors, I never questioned in what form the orange is used when paired with chicken. One bungling I did, made the drumsticks more spicy. I used 2tbsps of chili powder for 5 while it was for 8. This incosistent cutting down of the recipe gets me. Last time I made cookies I halved a 2 1/4 cup flour to 1 cup, as a result, the cookies got very brotherly and ran all over the pan.