Chicken in Oyster Sauce
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Chicken Fried Rice
Its old news now, but I hope you remember Barack Obama’s remarks about religious intolerance in India towards the end of his historic visit to the county. The next time he makes one of those visits, I request the CIA or whoever decides the president’s itinerary to let him drive through the busy st
Chinese Chicken Spring Rolls
You know what they say about the earth being round and everything that you do coming back to get you? I realized this was true when I saw my son rummage through all his baby toys and ask me the history of each and every piece, and leave everything, including several pieces of jigsaw puzzles, scatter
Schezwan Chicken Noodles
Kaala Vaalu pokumbol ariyam enthinennu. Likewise, when you see the recipe for sichuan sauce on a blog, you can be sure that another schezwan recipe that uses this sauce is on its way soon. And I chose to share the recipe for Schezwan noodles which is a wildly popular dish of the Indo Chinese cuisine
Stir Fried Brown Rice
We all know that brown rice is healthier than it’s white version. But what I didn’t know was that the milling and polishing process that rice goes through to whiten it strips away 90% of vitamin E, 80% of vitamin B1 and magnesium, and significant amount of iron, B3, B6 and fibre. Rice is fattening, and as long as I am eating it, it would be some consolation if I could get some nutritional benefits from it. As per the BBC GoodFood magazine, brown rice is packed with nutrients since it retains its bran layer and its germ and it is linked with lower risks of heart disease, diabetes, obesity and even certain types of cancer.
We do use brown rice at home on an everyday basis but I have never cooked brown basmati rice. I thought it was more aromatic than white rice, but I preferred the white rice in terms of taste. The stir fry I made was quite delicious and comparatively smaller servings of rice were quite filling.
Brown Rice Stir Fry
(Adapted from BBC GoodFood magazine)
Vermicelli Uppuma
After Prithviraj’s good looks, KK’s soulful voice and bottles of Nutella, the Work from Home concept may be the best gift ever given to womankind. Imagine being at home, humming a merry tune and watering your plants as your friends huff and puff to get to their bus stop. A hot cup of fresh tea made just to your liking and the day’s newspaper on your balcony while the others wrinkle their nose at the overly sweet cardamom tea that a mindless machine makes. A clearer mind while you work because you didn’t have to get up at an ungodly hour to prepare the day’s meals and pack them. Instead, you would be doing the cutting, chopping, sauteing and roasting as you attend your calls or wait for the program run to be over. The breaks are not spent in the pantry but reading a book to the little one. The little one, who incidentally doesn’t suffer from nappy rashes anymore because you get to change his diapers on time, unlike the nanny you entrusted him to. The world is at peace and while you may
Fried Rice
When we were children, we always wanted to eat at our favourite restaurant that was called Hassan (in Salalah, Oman). It was not always easy to convince our dad to take us there especially since the food almost always gave him a stomach upset. So he often made stories about the poor hygiene at restaurants, his favourites being that cooks didn’t wash the chicken and they didn’t wash their hands. Not very imaginative, which may be why they always fell on our deaf ears. We slyly roped in our mom to help our case because even then we knew that no man can deny his beautiful Mrs something as simple as a trip to the restaurant.
I can remember the restaurant very well. There were two huge dining rooms and some private booths as well, the doors of which children (the unruly ones, not us) loved to slam shut. We once spied a lone diner lick tomato sauce off the bottle rim and resolved never to use anything from an unsealed bottle. Other diners cooled the soup in large saucers for their kids, but
Tomato Soup
A few weeks back, when I did not have access to home cooked food, I ate more restaurant made North Indian Executive Thalis than I care to remember. FYI: A thali is a meal served on a round, steel plate and it usually includes some kind of flat bread (roti, naan, or puris), rice, pappad, a selection of vegetarian curries, lentils and a sweet to round off the meal. In a normal thali, you can have additional/unlimited servings of rice and curries, but an executive thali is a limited meal. In every restaurant that I went to, the soup that came with my North Indian thali was tomato soup.(North India, is that the only soup you make ?? ;)) While the soup was quite flavourful at one of restaurants I frequented, it tasted like dish water at another (not that I have tasted dish water, but you get the idea, don’t you?). The soup was so tasteless that I satisfied myself with the masala pappad and croutons the soup came with. Anyway, within few days, tomato soup kind of grew on me. While I get to
Tawa Pulao
A lot of people seem to be burdened by domestic help issues these days. Most of us live in two member, or rather, two and a half member households (the half being a kid in the 0 to 10 years age group). With jobs that keep us away from home for most part of the day, we can’t do without a maid to look after the little one(s).
I have not had any difficulty getting a maid considering the large number of domestic help agencies (such as “Solomon’s Land”, “St. Mary’s Agencies”, “Yehova’s Workers” and so on) in Kottayam. All I need to do is call one of them up, be greeted by reassuring Christian devotional caller tunes on their mobile phone, state my requirements, pay the agent’s fees (approximately 1000 Rs per month), agree to a monthly income of Rs 7000 for the maid, and I am assured that she would be reaching Bangalore in a couple of days (I would need to pay the transport charges and some additional charges (no breakup provided) of course). Simple, isn’t it?
A few hours after I call the
Exam Fever and A Chicken Noodles Recipe
Exams, how I hated them! Student life was so much fun with exams being the only blot on an otherwise beautiful picture. In the four years spent in CEC, the college where many of us “studied” engineering, we spent approximately 370 hours writing exams! And that does not include our practical tests! It sounds scary to me now, scarier that it had seemed then, when it was just another part of life.
Mid semester exams were fine because they were conducted by the college, covered fewer topics and only a small percent of the score was considered into the final total. Indeed, our single digit electrical exam scores shocked many people (it was first year, and we were not yet used to getting poor scores), but after sometime (when we realized everyone had scored poorly), 2/25 started sounding funny and people who got 8/25 were immediately termed nerds (and were secretly envied). Just why did computer science students have to study electrical engineering basics anyway?
But the university exams w
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