My role model

She was a pampered princess to her father. She was the darling of the household and yet she never let her ego take over her. She did her schooling from a non-english medium school yet she went on to finish her post grad in M.A Economics in english medium.

She got married to a man who was never there for her in every aspect. She was never treated with respect at her in-laws place yet she never lost respect for her elders there. She gave birth to a daughter when she was diagnosed with rheumatic heart disease and yet she went on to have a second baby, a son, and completed her family. She worked despite all the odds to feed her family and also secured her children's future. She faced many storms in her professional life. That didn't stop her form working. She educated many college girls on her own money. She still gives away prize money to whoever tops in the subject she teaches ( Economics ).

She was always there for her kids, was part of their small joys and sorrows. She made her parents proud. She never lost passion for life. She tries to find joy in all the small things and big. She wanted that life for her daughter which she missed.

Wondering who am I talking about? Who else could I know this well than " My Mom " ? Yes, she's my role model and one person I look up to for everything. Today the relationship we share is more like friends than a mother-daughter one.

I always wonder if only I could be 1% of what she is and make her proud of me. I love her and since I'm down with cough and fever now, I miss her so much. Wish she was here, sitting next to me, stroking my hair.

" Miss you Mom, I so wish you were here "

Love

R

Aloo Bhaath

One more rice recipe coming your way...................................

Ingredients :

• Potatoes : 2 medium sized cut into small cubes
• Rice : cooked 1 cup for 1 person
• Ghee / Butter : 3 tablespoons
• Ginger - Green chillies - coriander leaves paste : 3 tablespoons
• Garam masala : 1 tablespoon
• Salt : for taste
• Turmeric : half teaspoon

Procedure :

• Cook rice and keep aside.
• Heat ghee or butter in a wok or kadai and fry potatoes until they turn golden brown ( they should look like potato chips but in the shape of cubes ).
• Now add ginger - green chilly - coriander leaves paste. Along with it add salt and garam masala and mix well.
• Now add rice to the above mixture and sprinkle turmeric powder to get the colour.

Your Aloo Bhath is ready. Have it with raita................... try it and tell me how it turned out.......

Till the next post ............................ Love All and Serve All.............

R

Onion Rice

Hey guys I'm back with another rice recipe........................

Ingredients :

• Rice : cooked 1 cup serves one person
• Onions : 1 medium sized
• Green chillies : 2-3 slit lengthwise
• Curry leaves : 5-6
• Urad dal : 1 teaspoon
• Chana dal : 1 teaspoon
• Cumin seeds : 1 teaspoon
• Mustard seeds : 1 teaspoon
• Asafoetida : a pinch
• Salt : for taste
• Garam masala : 1 teaspoon
• Turmeric powder
• Oil : 2 table spoons
• Coriander : for garnishing
  

Procedure :

• Cook the rice and keep aside.
• Heat oil in a wok or kadai and add urad and chana dals along with cumin and mustard seeds and asfoetida.
• After the dals change colour, add onions, green chillies, surry leaves and let the onions turn soft.
• Then add the cooked rice and mix it well.
• Now add turmeric powder, garam masala and salt and mix well and cook for a minute before taking it off the fire.
• Garnish it wih coriander.
• Serve with raita.

Till the next post ..................... Love All and Serve All.............

R

Potato Curry

YYYYYuuuuuuummmmmmm........ the taste is still in my mouth.......................I made potato curry for dinner tonight. I wanted to make this when I made sambar but since sambar is a heavy stuff, I thought I'll have it with rasam. It is deadly combination with sambar, rasam and you can also have it with roti.

I got this recipe from a site on web. I cannot recollect which site it was but it was something I have been looking for and I found it easy to make. I have added few powders to the recipe, giving it my personal touch but otherwise it is pretty much how I found it on the site.

Ingredients :

• Potatoes : 250 gms ( boiled and peeled and cut into small cubes )
• Onions : 1 large, chopped
• Green chillies : 2-3 optional
• Curry leaves : 6-7
• Garlic : 5-6 pieces
• Oil : 2 tablespoons
• Urad dal : 1 teaspoon
• Cumin seeds / Jeera : 1 teaspoon
• Mustard seeds / Rai : 1 teaspoon
• Asafoetida : a pinch
• Salt : to taste
• Red chilly powder : 1 teaspoon
• Sambar powder : 1 table spoon
• Turmeric powder : 1 teaspoon
• Coriander / Cilantro : for garnishing.

Here are the ingredients I added to the recipe. These are optional but I would recommend using them for that extra taste.

• Jeera / cumin powder : half teaspoon
• Coriander / Dhania powder : hal teaspoon

These ingredients are part of sambar powder but when you add them separately you get an extra taste.

Procedure :

• Boil the potatoes, peel the skin and cut them into small cubes.
• Marinate the potatoes with salt, turmeric powder, red chilly powder, sambar powder, cumin powder and coriander powder by adding little water and mix properly and let it stay for half an hour.
• Heat oil in a pan and add urad dal, cumin seeds, mustard seeds, asafoetida and once the urad dal turns brown, add garlic ( gralic should be smashed so that the taste of comes out ).
• Then add onions, greenchillies, curry leaves.
• Once the onions turn soft and pink, add the marinated potatoes and mix. Cover and cook for a minute or two. Keep mixing so that it doesn't get burnt.
• Granish it with coriander.

Have it with rice or roti / bread. I loved making it and having it. Hope you guys enjoy the dish too. Do let me know how you liked it.

Till the next post...............lots of love..........

R

Khichdi Recipe

It was time for my husband to get back home from work. I make him something tasty to munch on everyday by the time he's back home. Today I was hungry too by that time and I didn't know what to make. I was going through the recipes collection I got and my eyes landed on Khichdi. I didn't have all the ingredients that were mentioned there and thought I would check out an alternate version of the same on the web and started searching and I found two recipes different from each other and also different from the one I got in my collection. So I did this, mixed all the three and made a Khichdi out of it. I used the ingredients I have at home and this came out.

When I tasted, it reminded me of my school days.I had a friend in school who almost always got Khichdi and her mom made an amazing Khichdi. I always told my mom how different it was from the regular one. I didn't know how my friend's mom made it then but I sure know now and I would love to share it with you guys.

Ingradients : ( in the order of using them )

• Rice : 1 cup for one person
• Moong dal : 1/2 cup
• Ghee / Butter : 2 table spoons
• Cumin seeds / Jeera : one table spoon
• Mustard seeds / Rai : one table spoon
• Asafoetida / Hing : half table spoon
• Garlic : 4-5, minced
• Ginger : small piece, minced
• Onions : 1 medium sized, chopped
• Green chillies : 2-3 slit along the length
• Carrots : 2 chopped
• Potatoes : 2 chopped
• Cumin / Jeera powder : half teaspoon
• Coriander / Dhania powder : half teaspoon
• Garam masala powder : 1 teaspoon
• Turmeric powder : half teaspoon
• Salt : 1 teaspoon
• Red chilly powder : half teaspoon
• Coriander leaves : for garnishing

Procedure :

• Soak the rice and moong dal together in water.
• Heat ghee in a vessel used for cooking rice. Once the ghee is heated, add asfoetida, cumin seeds and mustard seeds.
• After the mustard seeds start sputtering, add chopped onions along with green chillies and minced ginger and garlic.
• Once the onions are cooked soft and they change colour to pink, add the vegetables.
• Let the vegetables cook for 2 minutes. Then add the soaked rice and dal and mix well.
• Now add salt, red chilly powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, garam masala powder and turmeric powder and mix well.
• Then add water and cook it closed till it is done.
• Garnish with coriander leaves.

Your Khichdi is done. Serve it with love and achar. I'm sure they would want more and more of it.

Till the next post eat healthy !!!!!!!!!!!

R