http://blinkandmiss.com Wishing you a fun-filled, healthy, happy, peaceful new year. Thu, 31 Dec 2009 07:03:39 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Today's entry to the weekly marathon is going to be a quick one - chana masala which is a staple at our home. 1 cup black chana/desi chana, soaked overnight or for 6-8 hours and pressure cooked 1 onion, finely chopped 1 tomato, finely chopped A few springs of coriander leaves, finely chopped 1 tsp ... http://blinkandmiss.com/2009/12/31/chana-masala/ For me, Calcutta is synonymous with jhaal muri. I had my first jhaal muri there and though the mustard oil taste was a bit strange at first, I fell in love with it. There were jhaal muri walas everywhere - at bus stations, inside local trains, at all cross roads. ... http://blinkandmiss.com/2009/12/30/jhaal-muri/ Yo! Today it's gulab jamun time, my favouritest dessert of all times. One of the best gulab jamuns I've had was from a famous shop in the narrow streets of Jaisalmer, where I had gone on a "study tour" from college. They were huge, and cost a whopping 10 Rs ... http://blinkandmiss.com/2009/12/29/gulab-jamuns/ The 7 day recipe marathon at Nupur's has been great fun so far. Today I'm back to work after the long weekend. So even though I have been thinking about what to cook/blog today, it's been a crazy day and I haven't even ventured into the kitchen yet. Today's entry is ... http://blinkandmiss.com/2009/12/28/gobhi-ki-subzi/ A very dear friend from Coorg who's now a hotshot chef, used to prepare this fragrant lemon rice in a jiffy, especially when we had left over rice. Brings back so many memories from the days when I had just started working and she was still studying. We shared the ... http://blinkandmiss.com/2009/12/27/lemon-rice/ The best part about knowing a little bit of cooking is that you can whip up a dish that you have a sudden craving for at 4 pm. And trust me in spite of there being all kinds of good restaurants in the vicinity, none could provide me with hot ... http://blinkandmiss.com/2009/12/26/corn-bhajia/ I am a dal person. Dal fry makes a quick, humble, homely meal when served piping hot with phulkas or bhaat in a steel plate. When nostalgia hits and I crave something simple and desi to the core, I make dal fry with ghee instead of oil. The ghee makes ... http://blinkandmiss.com/2009/12/25/dal-fry/ What's a Christmas without gorging on rich moist yummy plum cakes! Come December and the husband takes it upon himself to hunt down the perfect Xmas plum cake and picks up plum cakes from all over the town. In Bangalore the only perfect plum cake I've had is that ... http://blinkandmiss.com/2009/12/22/eggless-plumfruit-cake-xmas-special/ When I came across this vegetable biryani recipe at Show me the curry, I had to try it, given the husband's unconditional love for anything biryani. If I may say so myself, the biryani was light, colourful and loaded with all the good stuff. I served the biryani with some onion ... http://blinkandmiss.com/2009/11/28/vegetable-biryani/ ... cause I'm finally driving by myself at the ripe age of 29. So what if takes me 45 minutes to cover 3 kms. Today I even managed to put the AC and the radio on without knocking anyone down and it was fabulous. THIS is women's liberation my friend. Also ... http://blinkandmiss.com/2009/11/03/stay-off-the-roads/