Warm Greetings to all readers for a lovely year to start.Let’s celebrate life with new hope ,new dreams with a promising spirit.2015 was full of travel for me ,had many new experiences making me even more stronger,more confident at the same time.Hope this year brings a lot of good food to me with new people ,places to interact. Today our showstopper is chicken ,but it’s little rich which goes well with Indian flat-bread ,Lachha Paratha or with dahi-roti.
Learn to make Gajak aka Chikki at home. It’s crispy and super delicious, a perfect winter snack. Sharing the Best
Aloo-dum or dum-aloo , call it as you wish. This particular dish i am sharing today is the Alor dum that a bengali enjoy with loochi or as a spicy chat adding few common things to the dish like chopped fresh red-onion..lemon juice and black-salt etc.The same chat is famous in Orissa too. I remember in my school days , when a person used to sell this made of tiny baby potatoes , but that was cooked with very less spice. This recipe what my granny makes for us when we visit her.Being a bengali , she is a very…
India is a land of great cultural diversity,tradition and at the same time different cuisines each having their own dignity to survive. Each cuisine has a different story to signify the method they follow.Such an unique among them is Kashmiri Cuisine which is heavenly in look and taste.The rich, redolent dishes steeped in traditions are known to be a blend of three different cooking styles – that of Kashmiri Pandits, Muslims and Mughals. I picked Fish and made a classy dish called “Gaad-Nadur” which is Served on festivals and occasions among kashmiri people. Fish is cooked with lotus stems (Nadur…
I am a tea-lover..Let me confess this truth in this valentine season . May be i have tasted around 20-30 variety so far or may be more. The last interesting variety i tried at Sydney which was really soothing with a strong flavor of fresh bamboo-shoot. But when on Indian highways i always enjoy the road-side tea ,cutting-chai . I always keep on adding some flavor to my chai, a bay leaf or a dash of my “Masala-Tea” powder. Don’t you like your tea with some extra kick to sooth your own mood 🙂 I am sure your cuppa will…
People who love to eat are always the best people ~Julia Child~ The wait period when you know something cooking delicious in your kitchen makes you even more hungry !! That’s what i observed in my husband case 🙂 You start drooling literally when you being greeted with the fragrance of golden fried shami kebabs. Shami kebab is a popular snack in Pakistan which is traditionally made with beef.But beef can be replaced by chicken or lamb.I prefer my kebab with yogurt dip , the best condiment for me and very easy to prepare when your mind is in real…
Kheer was derived from the Sanksrit word kshirika (a dish prepared with milk), not as a rice pudding but a
To escape from Delhi heat we planned weekend break to Lansdowne ,a small cleaned town in Uttrakhand .A place to enjoy the nature with delicious food 🙂 The traditional cuisine there are simple to prepare and at the same time appealing to the palate. After the morning delicious breakfast ,I asked the cook to prepare something traditional.It was friday and crowd was little less.As soon as he agreed ,i put another condition.Guess What?? I wanted to cook myself with his help .He agreed to that 🙂 !! It was quite enjoyable for me to cook on holiday and the result…
