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Soya Cutlets/Patties

Everyone knows that getting a child to finish his plate of rice and daal is every bit as difficult as building a space shuttle. But even tougher is getting a senior citizen to eat what is good for him. The moment you tell a diabetic patient that whole wheat roti is a healthy alternative to white rice, he obstinately pushes aside his rotis and demands nothing less than a bowl of biriyani. He steals chocolates when he thinks no one is looking, snacks on aloo samosas and jalebis when he goes on his “evening walk”, and eats most of the sugar laden, forbidden refreshments served to his guests, fully aware that his family is not going to lecture to him about his diet in their presence. (God forbid this ever happens, because the poor, well meaning family is NOT going to like what happens after the guests leave.)
Now, if people with, eh, such health issues formed a union in Kerala, their first task would be to ban soya in the state. I mean, have you ever tried telling them that soya was good

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Chicken and Egg Balls

Eid celebrations are colossal in scale in the Arab countries. I remember some of shopping craze I witnessed as a child during this season. For eg, watching an Arab and his considerably large family push several shopping carts loaded with eatables to the billing counter, including a cart that contained only tins and tins of condensed milk! They must have been planning one hell of a party!
I do not normally celebrate Eid; but it bothers me that while many people around the world enjoy some seriously good food on the festival day, I may be trying to down a rather sad and ordinary meal. Eid calls for mean non vegetarian meals, no rabbit food please, thankyou! So, in addition to a chicken biriyani, I decide to make a starter which has chicken, eggs, cheese, herbs and spices in it. Can you beat that?

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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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Chicken Roast for this Easter

I do not have concrete belief in the existence of god, but I cannot deny that during stressful times, messages like the one above have given me a gentle push in the right direction. A person who believes in a super hero who has abundant love and compassion for you, who watches over you every minute of the day, holds you close especially when the going is tough, will have the strength to face each day with hope and optimism. So, a person who has unwavering faith in god is a very lucky person, isn’t he?
For this Easter, I am planning to make chicken roast – a whole chicken marinated with spices and baked in its own juices so that the meat is tender, and the skin is crisp and spicy. There is something immensely satisfying about a whole chicken; my little boy just couldn’t seem to wait for it to cook completely. I had to endure gku’s frowns and little qya’s complaints of “vishakunnu” (not to mention growls from my own stomach) while I hurriedly took some pics. Here is the recipe for you be