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  Healthy protein cabbage After the onion gravy success, I was excited to find out who is next in the boxring. A cabbage. I have  afound a way to make my family love it - a lentil eg urad or moong (fried initially, adds crunch - learned from a friend's sister visiting then) in copious amounts and mandolin sliced cabbage I wanted to see if there was a different way to make it. I saw this split chickpea addition to it and wondered why I didnt think of it before. I know of a recipe with soaked split chickpea and onion curry (diced onions, but now I am thinking another recipe would be to give the special treatment to onions with a blend and then fried well - elevates any main ingredient even simple one like soaked split chickpea. oh no, now reimaging all the great food could have been if done well - thinking chole curry -- its like once you know a mistake and have tons and tons of papers, to go back and correct). In some months, when for religious reasons, people dont eat onion, t...

  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.

  Garlic butter Chicken tenders  is what I made this time. Usually I make the green bean casserole and my daughter makes cranberry relish but she took up pumpkin pie this time. We had a bountiful pomegranate season.

  Simply Korean: Easy Recipes for Korean Favorites That Anyone Can Make by Aaron Huh We love watching  Maangchi videos. We have had Kimchi and Kimchi pancakes from Costco. Having enjoyed cole slaw, I will try making instant kimchi at home for all its fermented and probiotic goodness. All those neatly cut arrangements in bibimbap are definitely inspiring to make. True to the preface of the book, all the recipes have fewer ingredients and simple steps. One of the balls of rice looked so aesthetic. All the pictures are inviting to try out the recipe. I dont think I have seen a simpler book for someone who is new to Korean cooking and wants to try something easy. If you are wondering about the dish on the cover of the book, its rice cakes and there's royal version of it too. I guess we now have to watch  Aaron's  videos

  On the Curry Trail: Chasing the Flavor That Seduced the World by Raghavan Iyer Chunky potatoes with buttermilk  is quick to make with easily available ingredients. Chef's have such a beautiful way of talking of food. They make us appreciate food in ways rhat are missed by common eaters and cooks. For example in the chunky potatoes video, Chef Raghavan Iyer brings our attention to the color of the just grinded paste. In  Masala chai , Chef Chetna talks about the tea getting an almost caramel color. Thinking this way, we can enjoy cooking and elevate ir from the chore it can get to, if we dont take the effort to infuse novelty into it, either with new recipes or new ingredients. First color change and first aroma change . My younger one thought the curry was too garlicky. I thought it was wonderful to have a gravy curry done so quickly. I scrape the potatoes, cube them and then microwave them for 6 minutes. In that time, you can have rest of the stuff ready. I prepared i...

  How to Catch a Gingerbread Man by Adam Wallace After the season of Christmas and holidays, we are left with tons of thick Gingerbread men, Its one thing to catcch him and another to wipe him off. Maybe we could use Gingerbread as the base for a no bake pumpkin pie.  Maybe tea will help. I learned a new way of making  masala chai . Here Chetna boils the water with spices first and then adds tea powder. Tea is one recipe, where each person can add their twist to it. In the holiday times, I found time to try  methi matar malai  and kaju corn curry. Do you follow the recipe to the word or do you let life happen? I replaced malai with milk. I added peas to the kaju corn. This morning, while making  sindhi cauliflower curry , I didnt have place to add the curd. I added peanuts while making the paste.  I feel like I started off the new year well with already new recipes tried and few under the wings like Paneer Kurchan, Chicken Changezi, Paneer kofta birya...

  Extra creamy scrambled eggs  with carb slurry. I think this refrs to somehting like the water left behind after cooking pasta, some time I use it in a soup. Let me try this out.

  1000 Vegan and Vegetarian Meals: Everyday Recipes to Make Healthy Eating Easy (1000 Meals) Enough pictures. Many variations of a dish. Colorful servings. Creative as well as comforting. covers a wide range of cuisines. I should try soaking the oats overnight. Corn Fritters with banana sounds very interesting. There is a ripe banana waiting just to be used this way. A break from sweet banana bread. Interestingly fritters are made with raw bananas too. Didnt know the tip that the besan needs to rest overnight for chilla or the farinata. Cashew Mayonnaise. Dukkah as a topping on hummus Cashew spread Molletes served on circular breads is so refreshing to look at. Quinoa and black bean tacos. spinach vadai Sweet potato flatbread Avocado arranged as rose Beat and Bean burger Koshari like Kichdi Didnt realise the oven cooked be used for some of the Indian veggie cooking. As well as onions to coconut chutney.

  Cook, Eat, Repeat: Ingredients, Recipes, and Stories by Nigella Lawson What is a Recipe? is such a well written essay. Consider it. Recipes are like  rivers , they choose the least resistance path and keep moving into generations and cross borders with them. Very exotic dishes - Anchovy Elixir, 

  Kansas Kitchen - Imagic Plant-Based Taco Crumbles - Flavored, Textured Vegetable Protein  Why Imagic and Ultra-soy? The first time I heard of soy protein was as a kid. My father attended a marriage and told about this mock meat which wasnt meat. Recently my daughter wanted me to soak some of the soy chunks. She had a plan, I wasnt privy to yet. This was after I told her that I was cooking noodles. She was going to make something she loved at her friend's place. After she was done with adding the soychunks and cooking, supported with extra dash of ketchup, I realised it was supposed to be meatballs for non red meat eaters. How do you braid recipes into your repertoire of cooking? I once saw a friend's sister make cabbage but with an important first step which is loaded with urad daal thats well sauteed. Now thats the only way I make cabbage thats mandolin cut.  Another friends mom sent cauliflower curry as a care package during a tough time. The cauliflower curry had ma...

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  Tables & Spreads: A Go-To Guide for Beautiful Snacks, Intimate Gatherings, and Inviting Feasts Author of  Platter and Boards Design elements like the U shaped double candle holder and another semcircular single candle holder. Contrasting geometric pieces. Even  Fancy toothpicks  or toothpicks with mini honeycomb globes can add luxe to the event. There's a handy checklist to help lan the spread right up to the moment of the party starting from the occasion, number of people, season, ingredients, grocery shopping. If you are serious about this whole spread thing, you can start with  different types of butter knives  - solid sterling master, hollow handle master,  solid handle individual butter spreader, hollow handle individual butter spreader. Wow.. what an indepth look into the Art of Spreads. You will have so much know-how by the end of the book that you will be drawing out ideas for it. Details on many things - cheese knifes, cheese cuts, meat...

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