Soft and fluffy Spanish style omelette, with beautifully fried potatoes and seasoned perfectly… Last week, I was just looking myself in the mirror. I started this year positively, looking forward to it and in a decent shape that I was really happy about. Slowly as the year passed by and things got wrecked up, I allowed myself to get entangled in the mess. I can conveniently say that the mess got onto me, but no, I would like to take responsibility for it. The lockdown, the work stress, and then Covid, the hot summers, the lonely times and then I don’t know where I let the rope that I was so tightly holding onto slip off my hands. I have conveniently put on a lot of weight, and I have to entirely blame it on myself for leaning onto food when I needed solace. There is one problem…
Nutella Peanut Butter Ice Cream
I think when we say “no cook”, then ice cream is something that comes into our head immediately. With the advent of the whipping cream – condensed milk formulation, making ice cream at home in various variants have becomes such a breeze. However, it has been really long since I have made some at home. It is mainly because I fear I would sit and eat through the whole batch myself – please do not judge! 😉 I had no second doubts about including this double delicious Nutella Peanut Butter Ice Cream while planning my posts for this week’s Blogging Marathon #117 theme “No-cook Recipes” – the other two being Gazpacho and Mortadella Sandwich. Just like the name suggests, this ice cream is totally dominated by the flavor of Nutella, intermittently cut in by the crunchy peanut butter. In fact, I actually made this ice cream to finish…
Mortadella Sandwich
While choosing the theme of “No Cook Recipes” for this week’s Blogging Marathon #117, I was sure that I had to make this Mortadella Sandwich, that was a part of my pregnancy food when I was carrying Rasha. If you are my blog’s stable readers, you would all know how much I love food linked with stories. Hehe… This is one thing that HD used to make for me almost on a regular basis then. He hardly cooks or fixes meals these days, and I really miss it. We used to stay quite close to my office when I was carrying Rasha. We had actually shifted to make it easier for me to go for my MBA classes till I completed it, and then discovered that I was pregnant. 😀 I wouldn’t be exaggerating if I say that that year was the best year of my married life….
Easy Gazpacho | Chilled Tomato Soup
Last month, the Blogging Marathon team had their mega marathon of thalis. I wouldn’t want to talk about it, because it gives me goosebumps. I feel ashamed how lazy I am when compared to them, but secretly I envy and admire them for putting up such beautiful plates of food for their family that then ended up on their blog. The BM marathon happens two times every year, but with too much on my plate, I have never been able to participate. I am hoping maybe I can tick that off my bucket list in 2021, who knows? 😉 For the time being, let me be satisfied with two weeks of Blogging Marathon. This month is edition #117 and for this week, the theme I chose was “No Cook Recipes” and the first recipe that popped up in my mind – the Gazpacho! I have been wanting to…
Palak Murg | Chicken in Spinach Sauce
We are in the blessed month of Muharram. We had a public holiday over here on Sunday and it was quite relaxed. The summers are slowly taming down – I mentioned “slowly”, because sometimes they do act funny! – and it is indeed a relief. Moreover, schools are expected to open next week, starting with online classes. I simply can’t believe that two months of summer vacation got over just like that! At the beginning of last month, I was wondering how the girls are going to spend their time inside, with not much activity. Thankfully, they had madrassa classes and art classes online, which kept them busy. I am just thankful that it wasn’t as bad as expected. Just goes to tell, how much we think too much and spoil everything. Hehe… Over the weekend, the fasts of Muharram will be on. We can either fast 9 and…
Palak Paneer | Cottage Cheese with Spinach {No Cream!}
For the Blogging Marathon #115 for theme “One Vegetable, Three Ways”, I have chosen spinach and after these chapathis, here is the second recipe. I already have a palak paneer recipe on the blog – which was coincidentally shared during a previous BM theme! – but that is a super easy truncated version to say the least. Usually dishes like these are treated like “treats”, something you make when you have guests coming or that you order when you go into a nice vegetarian restaurant. This happens even though the ingredients used are very regular. Haven’t you felt that? 😉 Anyway, coming back to this delicious dish from the vegetarian repertoire of a beautiful state called Punjab, the regular Palak Paneer is indeed a treat. Time is taken to blanch the spinach so that it doesn’t loose its green color. Usually it is cooked in ghee or butter…
Palak Chapathi | Spinach Flatbread
For this week’s Blogging Marathon #115 theme “Three ways with one vegetable”, I chose “palak” or spinach as my vegetable. So you will find three ways to use it up. 🙂 Spinach is always associated with Popeye The Sailor Man, isn’t it? 😀 The way he presses the can, plops in the spinach and then immediately those muscles pop us is always fascinating to watch. But then I never loved eating spinach all this while, thanks to its muddy taste. It is only when I started my quantified diet and had to include more vegetables into my eating, that it became something I love to have. My favorite way of having it is in this easy peasy palak paneer, but yes, there are so many ways to surely include it into your diet! During the quarantine shopping, I had picked up a couple of packs of frozen spinach….
Cheese Samosas
For the final recipe for the Blogging Marathon #115 under the theme “Monsoon Delights”, after the Urulakizhangu Bonda and Brinjal Fritters, here is a samosa that is perfect for lazy heads like me. 😉 As much as I love making samosas, preparing the filling is one that makes me feel really lazy to make them, the other being shaping them. *Please don’t judge me – ahem!* I already have a recipe for make-from-scratch samosas as well as a lazy muffin cup style baked samosas on the blog. If you hate the shaping part, then these chicken cheese pockets are perfect, as they are easy to shape and good looking too. 😉 This recipe uses a filling that only needs a bowl and fork along with the ingredients and your regular samosa wraps to get it done. How easy can that be! Cheese samosas are something that the Arab…
Baingan Bhaji – Bringal Fritters
For the Blogging Marathon #115 theme of “Monsoon Delights”, after the Urulakizhangu Bonda, it is this super simple fritter made with brinjals/ aubergine/ eggplants – call it whatever you want! 😉 We had this huge brinjal sitting in our pantry not knowing what is to be done with it. That is when SIL suggested we make some fritters with it. We have initially thought of cutting it into roundrels and making it like pakodas but then changed the plan to make it a little different. This post is solely her creation and idea of making it. 🙂 The eggplants we usually get here are quite huge. You can cook one for the entire family! This one we used was no different. It was cut into rectangular sticks so that it would feel meaty in each bite. The recipe has no complicated ingredients, so you can just mix up…
Urulakizhangu Bonda | Aloo Bonda ~ Potato Balls
Time for two weeks of the Blogging Marathon this month too! By now, you would have figured out how much I love doing the Blogging Marathon whenever I can. I always tell Valli how much the two weeks makes me feel really energized and looking forward to trying new recipes and doing posts on the blog. I am really thankful that I am finding it easier to do posts and things seem to be in a nice flow now, though I wouldn’t want to get over excited about anything at the moment. 😉 This month’s edition is the BM #115 and this week, the theme I have chosen is “Monsoon Delights”. I have been going home every year for the past six years. Every year, we would think of not travelling, however at the beginning of the year while fitting in the plans, going home comes in automatically. Staying…
Easy Chicken Curry {Using Curry Powder}
I am not a fan of spice blends picked up from the supermarket shelves. I would rather have individual spices in my pantry. Each brand has its own distinctive taste, actually making it difficult to like one. The only masala powder I pick up is the chaat masala and then on and off, a pack of Madras curry powder. I am not sure why I pick it up, but I love that smoky smell the spice mix gives when you open the dabba. Unlike most of the curry powders which are in a plastic pack sealed inside a box pack. the Madras curry powder always comes in a tin. I have read somewhere that they use this curry powder a lot in Emirati cooking, likely due to the influence of South Indian cooking on the local cuisine here. With the current batch I have, I used them in the…
Bull’s Eye Egg Curry | Potticha Mutta Curry
There is a reason why I specifically chose “Bring on the Curry” as the theme for this week’s Blogging Marathon #114. During the lock down period, my SIL and I would break our head thinking what to try for dinner. It is a multi-million dollar question all the time, isn’t it? Like many, a lot of my time goes trying to decide what to cook instead of the actual cooking. It was then I discovered umma’s notebook while rearranging my kitchen shelves. She had noted down some recipes that she had seen on TV and actually had cooked them a couple of times. I have already tried a few recipes from the book, and this is one of them. Many more will come in due course, InShaAllah… I always wish I am a bit more organized with food plans. Umma used to be like that. She had a…
Mixed Vegetable Sagu | Karnataka Style Vegetable Stew
For this week’s Blogging Marathon #114, when Valli published the themes and I saw “Bring on The Curry!”, I picked it up right away. I struggle with making curries especially for dinner. For lunch, we have a standard rice-curry-fish-stir fry combo, that is still manageable, but for dinner, to keep the folk’s interest, it is a tough task. Anything non-veg gets accepted with gusto but when it comes to vegetarian fare, I have a roller coaster ride. I guess anybody with a carnivorous family would agree to this. So you can imagine my excitement, when I made this sagu and it got wiped up from the plate. Such a joyous moment! A sagu is a rich gravy that is very specially made in Karnataka, usually eaten with set dosa or pooris. When you go through the list of ingredients, you may figure out the richness. The coconut and…
Banana Drop Cookies
For this week’s Blogging Marathon #114 theme of “Cookies”, here is the third one after the Nankhatais and the Cocoa Cookies. I had plans to make another type of cookie for this post, however the two dying bananas in my pantry prompted me to try these cookies that I had chanced upon Dhanya’s blog. Have you ever heard about drop cookies? They are basically cookies that are scooped by a tablespoon, plopped onto a mat or tray and then baked. Now the tablespoon has been replaced by an ice-cream scoop. Hehe… However, there are many drop cookies that wouldn’t feel like one despite its appearance. They taste like cakes that have taken a cookie avatar… hehe… And these banana drop cookies come into that category… Before I go to these cookies, tell me one thing – how has this period affected you? Have you felt overwhelmed and anxious?…
Simple Cocoa Cookies
When the Blogging Marathon #114 was declared with the theme of “Cookies”, I had to include this one into the list. Those who read my blog regularly will understand how much I love food with memories. And there aren’t much of food with memories for me, since umma’s cooking repertoire was limited, but I guess that is what makes memories… Limited yet plenty… 🙂 Umma used to have a small OTG. She had got it at a very low price – I am sure you all agree how our parents were when it came to putting in their money on anything. They realized the value of money so much because it came hard for them. Sometimes, I do feel that we don’t appreciate it as much as they did. OK, that is a different discussion all together. Hehe… My sister and I would bake something or the other…
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