Aloo, Palak, Gobi Curry

It was one cold evening and I had to cook. I was having a usual fight with my wife on phone who is back in India. Suddenly I realised that it was 9:30 PM. Ramesh, Antony, and Praveen should have been hungry. Realising that I also found that prasanth is yet to return from office. I asked them whether they were hungry. Fortunately they had not lost their patience and they said they were not.! And praveen had a slight flu due to the sudden climate change. I found that the rice in the rice cooker was ready. now what? I saw that there was some carrot and beans there and I cut them as if for some frid rice. Then I thought "i will make some pulav ?". thinking that I started peeling the potatoes. Then suddenly I felt, Fried rice with potato fry would be a great idea. then when i lookedint the refrigerator,...

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Aviyal.. the great..!

It is supposed to have been invented by Bhima (one of the Pandava brothers) during his Agnaathavaasa. According to the legend, when Ballav (Bhima's name during this time) assumed his duties as the cook in the kitchen of Virata, did not know how to cook. One of the first things he did was to chop up many different vegetables, boil them together and top the dish with grated coconut..! Praveen and Prashanth are adepts in preparing this dish..! Serves  4 Preperation Time  15 Minutes Contents Green Vegetables Ingredients Yam 150 gms Ash gourd150 gms Raw bananas2 nos Drumsticks2 nos Potato1 no Shelled peas1/2 cup Sour curds1 cup Turmeric...

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America..., America

It is a techies dream to reach the land of yankies at least once a life time. I reached here when least expected. Life has to go on and so am here. and as life has to go on..one has to eat. Family being at home, I joined a few bachelors who will once be writing a blog like this. I think the following series of recipes shall all be the ones we do it in here. I might give some tidbits which I learnt here while cooking. the pic above is the new delhi restaurant which we had a lunch on while visiting phill...

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