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Butter Chicken – Murgh Makhani

An ideal world would be one in which all promises are kept, no rules are broken and people truly love and respect each other.
But such a world exists only in Karan Johar movies where the men are more gorgeous than Chris Hemsworth, the women’s legs are longer than the whole of me and they show all of it, and where love happens in London, Paris or San Fracisco with firangis dancing in the background wearing lehengas designed by Manish Malhotra.
It’s all rosy in Mills Boon novels too, where after 100 pages of keeping passions and emotions in check and denying each other’s existence, the lovebirds finally unleash it all and live happily ever after.
The world is a beautiful place in my fantasies too. In it, I am 10 kgs lesser than my actual weight.
But reality is a far cry from all the mush and the slush. In our world, we have politicians who promise to erase poverty, but instead erase the poor. From their view point, it isn’t a grave injustice. They promised to hatao the girib-i and inst

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Sausage Rolls

Hum rahe ya na rahe kal,
pal, yaad aayenge ye pal…
My friends have presented me with some of the most beautiful and craziest moments of my life. As life takes on a quick pace, the memories of laughing together, dividing a tiny piece of chocolate into 9 tiny bits, gossiping about who is with whom, lengthy discussions that wound into the night regarding the facts of life , cussing at each other, failed attempts to get our hands on the ‘Murder’ CD that made its rounds in hostel, shopping for jewellery and clothes, the surprise birthday parties, helping each other find the right shade of lipstick, are some of the few things that bring a smile to my face. Wouldn’t it be just wonderful if we could get together once more, spend a day without anything to worry us, be totally and absolutely happy and carefree?
If there ever be such an occasion, I’ll make these sausage rolls, because whats a get together without lots of food for us food lovers? What will you make?
Spicy Sausage Rolls
To a gr

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Christmas Cake/Fruit Cake

Isn’t Christmas the most beautiful time of the year? It is that time of the year when we buy gifts and send out greeting cards, set up the Christmas tree, put up Christmas decorations and ornaments, hang stockings so that Santa can give us those much awaited gifts, bake cakes and throw parties, and

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Chicken Biryani – My father’s masterpiece dish

Biryani is essentially an assembly of long grained basmati rice flavoured with spices, and curried meat, sea food or vegetables. This rich dish is savoured all over India though the spices, condiments and the method of preparation vary from region to region.
When I was in Hyderabad, my friends and I visited the Paradise restaurant to eat the very popular Hyderabadi biryani, which is a must have for everyone visiting the city. We ended up talking, or rather, bragging about the biryani from our own states. The bengali claimed that their biryani was the best of all, with its subtle masala and distinctive addition of potato, while the keralite asserted that the biryani back home, with liberal amounts of ghee and cashew, and sometimes egg, was unbeatable.
Of course it was difficult to argue with the Hyderabadi, who said that marinated raw meat and rice were cooked together, along with saffron to add to the flavour and aroma of the Hyderabadi biryani. And I thought it would be childish to s