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Every time we eat this dish it takes us back to the olden golden days when the a puff pastry in the college canteen with friends used to define a good time. Even though now we have the luxury to enjoy a delicious meal at a five restaurant still those days are missed dearly. Vegetable puff with filter coffee defines a perfect evening. Ingredients: Potato: 1 medium cut into small cubes Green Peas: 1/4 cup Onion: 1 small finely chopped Green Chili:: 1-2 finely chopped Red Chilli Powder: 1 tsp Turmeric: 1 tsp  Lime Juice: 1 tsp(optional) Coriander Leaves: 1 tsp finely chopped Puff Sheets: 4 Salt to taste Chat masala: 1 tbsp Chicken/Mutton Curry powder: 1 tbsp oil: 1tsp Procedure: In a pan heat the oil. Add the chopped green chili and chopped onion. Add a pinch of salt and as the onion gets translucent add cubed potato and green peas. Add salt to taste, red chilli powder and turmeric powder and mix well, cover and cook till the potatoes are good through b

When we finalized our house last year, first thing I started doing was preserving pumpkin seeds from the pumpkins that I bought in the hope that once I am settled down I will plant them. I did that and everyday I would wake up and see if the seedling has popped but unfortunately nothing happened so frustrated and desperate I went to home depot and grabbed a pack of pumpkin seeds and wala I have a garden full of pumpkin plant spreading all over.  People plant a vegetable in the hope of fruit but I planted in the hope of loving flowers and greens ;) If you plant pumpkins you would realize that initialing you get only 1-2 flowers a day and that too they die by the mid of the day. So what you can do is, pick flowers early in the morning and store then in a ziplock pack till you collect enough for everybody. Ingredients: Pumpkin Flowers : 20  Rice: 1/3 cup Garlic: 4 pods Cumin seeds: 1 tsp Whole Dry Red Chilli: 2-4 (depending on how spicy the chillies are and how spicy

As I have mentioned in many of my post, I grew up eating a lot of fish and shrimp. My brother always preferred shrimp over fish and his favorite preparation was the one my Mausi made. Its a dry preparation with mustard paste. It is generally prepared with smaller shrimps but as I had only the medium sized one's from the Costco, I used them. But if you can find some small ones it would be perfect. Ingredients: Small Shrimp: 1/2 pound with scale and cleaned. Mustard Paste: 2tbsp ( grind, 2 tsp mustard seeds, 1 tsp cumin seeds and 5-6 cloves of garlic pod) Onion: 1 medium finely chopped Pancha Phutan: 1 tsp Whole Green Chilli: 2-3 Turmeric Powder: 1 tsp Oil: 1 tbsp Salt as per taste Procedure: Marinate the prawns in little salt and pinch of turmeric for 5-10 mind. In a kadhai or frying pan heat oil and fry the shrimp for 2-3 minutes or till it turns slight pink on all sides.  Remove the shrimp and to the same pan add pancha phutan and let it crackle. As

I started cooking during my stay in Delhi, and slowly I graduated from a single stove kitchen to a full fledged kitchen. But there were times when I would run out of gas and the gas guy won't deliver for a day or two. So the alternative would be eating at office cafe, but this option won't help over the weekend, so I would order food delivery from this restaurant that I have never seen in person, but I would always order the same menu, zeera rice, dal fry and chilli chicken. This made the best zeera rice and dal fry, chilli chicken was ok. But the rice and dal was out of the world. So I keep going to zeera rice every time I crave something really decadent  and easy. Ingredients: Basmati Rice: 1 cup cooked Onion: 1 medium thinly sliced Green Chilli: 2-3 sliced Zeera ( cumin): 1 tbsp Oil: 1 tbsp Salt to taste. Procedure: In a kadhai heat oil. As the oil heats up add the cumin seeds and as they stop spluttering add the green chilli and onion slices with a pinch