Well.. am back !
Today i thought of making something different from my usual egg curry stuff. So i experimented. The outcome will be known after a few more lines... :-)
Ingredients: Potatoes, tomatoes,green chillies, onions,garlic paste, ginger paste, hot curry masala paste
Process:
Cut onions,tomatoes and chillies.
Boil the potatoes in a cooker(1 whistle only)
Now, what you do is ...... saala yaad nahi aa raha be...
Haan... now you take a large vessel and put some oil in it.
Place the vessel on the stove(electric stove is just awesome yaar..)
Fry the onions,garlic+ginger paste,curry masala and chillies. Upon brownish color, add tomatoes.
Now let the mixture fry till dark brown. Add some water and some more cut tomatoes(well.. i added tomatoes coz the curry became very hot)
Still reading?? Let the whole thing cook now.
Now the bottomline... what actually became was aloo bhajji.. so we had to buy some pav('bread' for the non-Indian users) to have our dinner with this 'thing'...
You ask how did u manage?
Piece of cake ! :-).. *
* Thanks to Nandi :-)
Wednesday, July 21, 2010
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Killed by a 'thousand passes'
Yesterday i was crushed with sorrow and grief to see Germany loosing to Spain in the World Cup semi-finals. The feeling still lingers...
What a tournament it had been for Mannschaft. They had come to the South Africa as an unfancied team. People in Germany had written them off(they always do before any major tournament)
But as it is always said - Never write-off Germany.
But boy-oh-boy ! Did they have a tournament? They turned out to be the most entertaining team annihilating England(read my earlier blog) and Maradona's Argentina en-route to the semi-finals.
The 2nd youngest team of the competition just were unstoppable. Joachim Loew, nicknamed Jogi in Germany changed the German way of playing. They reminded me of the free flowing Dutch side of the 70's. They were absolutely scintillating.
But as it is said consistency is the key to winning. They were killed by a 'thousand passes'.
La Roja played their best game of this World Cup to end Germany's hopes of an eighth final appearance.
Alas! It will be now another 4 years wait for me and for like-minded fans. Am heartbroken.
I am now rooting for Netherlands, not because Spain defeated Spain and i would love to watch Spain loose. It is because the Holland side has been playing scintillating football since years.Legendary (I seldom use this word)
It is the best side never to have won the World Cup. If you have no idea what i am talking about, you are probably reading the wrong blog.
What a tournament it had been for Mannschaft. They had come to the South Africa as an unfancied team. People in Germany had written them off(they always do before any major tournament)
But as it is always said - Never write-off Germany.
But boy-oh-boy ! Did they have a tournament? They turned out to be the most entertaining team annihilating England(read my earlier blog) and Maradona's Argentina en-route to the semi-finals.
The 2nd youngest team of the competition just were unstoppable. Joachim Loew, nicknamed Jogi in Germany changed the German way of playing. They reminded me of the free flowing Dutch side of the 70's. They were absolutely scintillating.
But as it is said consistency is the key to winning. They were killed by a 'thousand passes'.
La Roja played their best game of this World Cup to end Germany's hopes of an eighth final appearance.
Alas! It will be now another 4 years wait for me and for like-minded fans. Am heartbroken.
I am now rooting for Netherlands, not because Spain defeated Spain and i would love to watch Spain loose. It is because the Holland side has been playing scintillating football since years.Legendary (I seldom use this word)
It is the best side never to have won the World Cup. If you have no idea what i am talking about, you are probably reading the wrong blog.
Sunday, July 4, 2010
Egg curry recipe
Well, before I even begin writing anything about cooking, I shall take this forum to acknowledge my roomie cum Big Bro - Anand 'Sufi Fanatic' Vardhan who has taught me step by step and never fussed or made a face when bugged with brilliant queries about cooking :-)
Paraphernalia needed for the recipe :
Onions,Tomatoes,oil,turmeric powder,chilli paste.
Steps:
1st cut onions, boil eggs.
Take a big container that can contain the number of eggs you wanna cook.
Put some oil and cut onions and fry till onions become light brown in color.
Now put some turmeric,some mirchi powder,garlic paste,a couple of other pastes i don't remember now and fry deep. Now put some cut-tomatoes(If you wanna kill the masala flavor and wanna make it less hot, add more tomatoes)
Let the paste fry for a little while. Now add some water. Let the whole mixture now boil for sometime. Till then, make small holes in the boiled eggs. This ensures that the masala taste reaches the inner part of the eggs( Oh ! how brilliant Kartik)
When the mixture become boiling hot, place the eggs one-by-one. Now let the whole thing just boil.
After sometime, the most Legendary-sumptuous dish ever served on this planet is ready to devour.
Paraphernalia needed for the recipe :
Onions,Tomatoes,oil,turmeric powder,chilli paste.
Steps:
1st cut onions, boil eggs.
Take a big container that can contain the number of eggs you wanna cook.
Put some oil and cut onions and fry till onions become light brown in color.
Now put some turmeric,some mirchi powder,garlic paste,a couple of other pastes i don't remember now and fry deep. Now put some cut-tomatoes(If you wanna kill the masala flavor and wanna make it less hot, add more tomatoes)
Let the paste fry for a little while. Now add some water. Let the whole mixture now boil for sometime. Till then, make small holes in the boiled eggs. This ensures that the masala taste reaches the inner part of the eggs( Oh ! how brilliant Kartik)
When the mixture become boiling hot, place the eggs one-by-one. Now let the whole thing just boil.
After sometime, the most Legendary-sumptuous dish ever served on this planet is ready to devour.
Saturday, July 3, 2010
Don't know where this originated from but found it halarious
'' In a bid to prove that he was alive, Osama Bin Laden featured in a video saying that England's performance at the World Cup was appaling.
However, British intelligence has dismissed the video alleging that the video could have been shot anytime in the past 44 years !
However, British intelligence has dismissed the video alleging that the video could have been shot anytime in the past 44 years !
Wednesday, June 30, 2010
Dal Recipe
I finally made dal. For all of those who are not aware, i always used to make egg bhurji(recipe in next log) when my turn came up for cooking :-)
We, in the UK, take turns for cooking at home.
It(making dal) is quite simple.
1st, take some red dal + tuar dal in a cooker, put some water, add salt and close the lid of the cooker and let it cook for 1 whistle. Will take around 15-20 mins.
Meanwhile, cut some onions and green chillies. After the dal is ready,place a frying pan( a big one) on the gas stove and on it some sunflower oil. Put some jeera and the freshly cut chillies in the pan. Fry them till they become dark brown in color. Now add the onions and fry the whole thing till onions become light brown.
Now pour the dal in the frying pan. Add some tomotoes + some salt and keep the gas on sim.
Sumptuous dal is ready :)
And they say cooking is difficult... Uh !!
Piece of cake...
We, in the UK, take turns for cooking at home.
It(making dal) is quite simple.
1st, take some red dal + tuar dal in a cooker, put some water, add salt and close the lid of the cooker and let it cook for 1 whistle. Will take around 15-20 mins.
Meanwhile, cut some onions and green chillies. After the dal is ready,place a frying pan( a big one) on the gas stove and on it some sunflower oil. Put some jeera and the freshly cut chillies in the pan. Fry them till they become dark brown in color. Now add the onions and fry the whole thing till onions become light brown.
Now pour the dal in the frying pan. Add some tomotoes + some salt and keep the gas on sim.
Sumptuous dal is ready :)
And they say cooking is difficult... Uh !!
Piece of cake...
Sunday, June 27, 2010
Die Mannschaft it is
This moment realy called for a blog.
Herr we go again as jelous fans in England start Kraut-baiting :
Germany beat England in a World Cup 4-1. & to add i watched it in England.
Well, before i start, there are a few things i would like to mention which actually made me feel so nice to see Germany stifle the 'stiff upper lip' the so-called 'english lads' have.
During the group stages of the world cup, i used to read the english newspapers about both the England and German teams not performing to their potential(quiet true) and making all kinds of permutations to find who England's next likely opponent be.
They fortelled a possible England - Germany clash in the round of 16.
The reasons: England will finish at the top of their group and Germany might slip to 2nd position respectively. They never came up with the possibility where they might end up 2nd in their group and Germany 1st(which ulitmately did happen)
This wasn't the least.
More to come -
In the run-up to the round of 16 clash, the papers looked beyond this clash and went to the extent of fortelling a possible England-Argentina clash(if Arg beat Mexico)
Never did it occur that England might not able to break the Berlin(German) wall?
What is with the arrogant british that they hate Germany so much?
Why is it, that whenever football throws up an encounter with the Germans, english folk who might have never set foot near a U-boat or stared down the barrel of a Walther P-38, respond to the most idiotic Herr Flick banter and Kraut-baiting?
What did the Bundesrepublic Deutschland ever do to hurt England?
I suppose the answer-in footballing terms - lies in the sort of deep,simmering resentment that only half a century of coming second-best can breed.
As every child in England knows, Eng beat West Germany in the 1966 world cup final.Since then,England's best showing in a world cup has been a semi-final defeat against you-kno-who.
During that time germans have been in 5 world cup finals,2 world cup 3rd place play-offs and 6 European Championship finals.
No wonder wonder the average unthinking English numb nut sees Germany in the draw and starts singing about the war.There's simply nothing else to crow about.
England are jealous of Germany and fear them. In other words, for the small-minded few,inferiority complex time is here. & this is to stay on for-ever. It only take one moron to take umbrage at a penalty defeat and there will be Audis smashed and sausages looted from Lidl. London will be in the grip of a senseless Kristallnacht of its own devising.
As i said - The 'Lads fear Die Mannschaft'
This expression of fear was gallore today. One could easily see in Wayne Rooney's eyes.
This England side is(now 'was') said to be the 'Golden side' with a lot of experience behind them.
Comparatively, the Germans have a very young, in-experienced 'Next Generation' side, but they played with much confidence and authority.
Maybe you don't have to be too strong to beat England.
The English talked about the Germans being average, but they made England look like a bunch of school kids.
Herr we go again as jelous fans in England start Kraut-baiting :
Germany beat England in a World Cup 4-1. & to add i watched it in England.
Well, before i start, there are a few things i would like to mention which actually made me feel so nice to see Germany stifle the 'stiff upper lip' the so-called 'english lads' have.
During the group stages of the world cup, i used to read the english newspapers about both the England and German teams not performing to their potential(quiet true) and making all kinds of permutations to find who England's next likely opponent be.
They fortelled a possible England - Germany clash in the round of 16.
The reasons: England will finish at the top of their group and Germany might slip to 2nd position respectively. They never came up with the possibility where they might end up 2nd in their group and Germany 1st(which ulitmately did happen)
This wasn't the least.
More to come -
In the run-up to the round of 16 clash, the papers looked beyond this clash and went to the extent of fortelling a possible England-Argentina clash(if Arg beat Mexico)
Never did it occur that England might not able to break the Berlin(German) wall?
What is with the arrogant british that they hate Germany so much?
Why is it, that whenever football throws up an encounter with the Germans, english folk who might have never set foot near a U-boat or stared down the barrel of a Walther P-38, respond to the most idiotic Herr Flick banter and Kraut-baiting?
What did the Bundesrepublic Deutschland ever do to hurt England?
I suppose the answer-in footballing terms - lies in the sort of deep,simmering resentment that only half a century of coming second-best can breed.
As every child in England knows, Eng beat West Germany in the 1966 world cup final.Since then,England's best showing in a world cup has been a semi-final defeat against you-kno-who.
During that time germans have been in 5 world cup finals,2 world cup 3rd place play-offs and 6 European Championship finals.
No wonder wonder the average unthinking English numb nut sees Germany in the draw and starts singing about the war.There's simply nothing else to crow about.
England are jealous of Germany and fear them. In other words, for the small-minded few,inferiority complex time is here. & this is to stay on for-ever. It only take one moron to take umbrage at a penalty defeat and there will be Audis smashed and sausages looted from Lidl. London will be in the grip of a senseless Kristallnacht of its own devising.
As i said - The 'Lads fear Die Mannschaft'
This expression of fear was gallore today. One could easily see in Wayne Rooney's eyes.
This England side is(now 'was') said to be the 'Golden side' with a lot of experience behind them.
Comparatively, the Germans have a very young, in-experienced 'Next Generation' side, but they played with much confidence and authority.
Maybe you don't have to be too strong to beat England.
The English talked about the Germans being average, but they made England look like a bunch of school kids.
I hope the juggernaut rolls on...
Monday, June 30, 2008
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