I took a break yesterday – from everything, so as to say! 🙂 Apart from my Facebook account that I kept checking (yeah, call me addicted! :T ),  I didn’t do anything on blogger or on Google + or on my emails. My elder one came back after her tiny vacation from India and they arrived early morning, so I had a lot of sleep to catch up, which unfortunately didn’t happen, thanks to the hyper younger one that I have. 🙂 She didn’t sleep and she ensured that she didn’t allow me to sleep. I took things very light, made light lunch and some dinner – yes, worth posting on this blog later! 🙂 But then come back to the office today and I regretted the leave I took yesterday. A leave ensures that at least the first half portion of your day is in a mess and that itself…
Chicken Mushroom Stir Fry
Let me start today with a quote I found online, which is so self-explanatory. Does it sound familiar? It does, isn’t it. I guess that’s the best way to find out where our interest lies in. When things were looking on the downslide, a new thing in the form of this little baby blog of mine came by and I am so overwhelmed with the responses that I get from all of you guys. Seriously, it makes me going. After having mentioned about the interview yesterday, my colleague came to view my blog and he told me that I write exactly the same way I talk, and he named it “the Raf touch”!!! 🙂 Somehow, I do not know to write with a lot of prose. But I love to type what I just feel and simply cannot camouflage it very effectively, I guess! 🙂  Coming to today’s recipe –…
Matar Kheema – Chicken Mince and Peas
Life takes very curvaceous turns. Sometimes you are on a high, and when you feel you have reached the peak, it can drag you down in the most awkward way. When life moves the way it wants (or the way God has destined it to move!), we realize how vulnerable we are, to the uncertainties of life. We do not know what is in store for us, coming up in the very next moment. All I do every time is to pray to the Almighty that He does not grant such surprises that I may not be able to take mentally, in fact, for everybody. Some people are strong, some may look strong but at the back of things, they are brittle. Yesterday was such a day for me  – I was excited in the morning but then in the evening it took a different turn. Alhamdulillah, things came back into place but then it made…
Kerala Style Baked Chicken
This was actually supposed to be my first guest post, but then the post for “Cooking with Thas” just happened without much planning and this post has become my second guest post in less than a week!Whatever said, this post is very close to my heart. I am just a little more than one month old and I am really honored to appear on a very well known and appreciated food blog for a guest posting. I do not think that Love2cook Malaysia – or Sri as is her name – needs any introduction. She cooks some of the most simple, yet amazing meals and her pictures are absolutely drool-worthy. She was one of the first food blogs I used to drool upon before discovering many many more. Her blog makes me feel that she’s somebody living right next door! I am sure all of us would agree to that statement……
Dahi Murg – Yogurt Chicken Curry
Sometimes, you feel things are not going well. But then, when you think a bit more deep, things are not that bad as it looks! That is my case now. Most of the time, I feel very negative about things but then when I ponder on matters on a different perspective, things don’t seem to be that bad. I believe that is a real good sign – the Almighty is with you, watching and guiding, ensuring that you are there doing things right and legal, and making things better. Â OK, philosophy apart – I sometimes like to go on and on, but then I need to put a full stop!!! Oops… that’s an exclamation mark. Hehe… Today it’s a chicken recipe again, that I adapted from a cutout from the Wknd magazine. We are a total non-veg family. That doesn’t mean we have chicken, mutton or beef everyday. But fish,…
Simple Chicken Shorba
I’m seriously excited about so many things happening on blogosphere. I got in with some skepticism but then I am so happy to get a lot of positive feedback and warm welcome from many of them. I really do not know how to jot down my happiness. 🙂 There’s so many events also that are happening, but I feel sad that I am not able to participate. I know that it is through participation that you get your blog to far more people, but then due to my current situation of not getting much time to tinker around the kitchen, I am forced to limit myself to whatever recipes I already have in store with me. But once things will get sorted out (I am sincerely hoping by April!), I should be able to participate in events. Today’s recipe is an easy yet flavor packed curry. I guess shorba is a…
Beef Dal Mash
Seriously, on Fridays, being at home in this part of the world is actually strange. For the last eight Fridays, I’ve been busy with my certification classes and now this Friday, finally when I am relieved to have ended that, my HD gets busy with his set of programmes!!! So here I am stuck at home and doing this post…  I stay in a place which is very multicultural. In fact, Dubai is known to market itself on the basis of multicultural coexistence. You can find the whole world here, literally in one place. Those who are living in Dubai or who have been here would definitely vouch for what I say. We have a Pakistani restaurant downstairs and we have keep ordering take aways whenever possible. Their food is very similar to our north Indian cooking and they have such awesome tikkas and kebabs. This is one such recipe….
Sausage Pasta with Bechamel Sauce
I was wrong yesterday, completely wrong… :T I have two more recipes to go from my previous blog, and  I completely forgot about it. Hmmm…. memory loss seems to be playing a very important role in my life these days. A doctor friend had once hinted that childbirth reduces a lady’s memory power, ie. the more children she has, the more the memory deteriorates. With two, if my memory is like this, I am scared how it would be if I have more!!! Geesh… I think I should be happy with the two I have for the moment and not think about the next child… 😉  Hehe… ok, coming back to the recipe today, this is definitely the best pasta I have ever made. During a desperate attempt to make something different with some near-expiry stocks reeling onto my face (read: bechamel sauce, tomato paste!), I found this recipe…