i hate chocolates..

i am soooooooooo happy. My daughter doesn't seem to like chocolates or sweets. She spits out if i try to give her Munch or Dairy milk. She likes to eat Idili with pickle, Dosa with chicken gravy. she will not take her food if i forget to add ghee in it. 10 months old has already developed taste for food and makes us follow her menu.

good news is that, my daughter gave her first kiss yesterday. :) .

bread jamun

cooking. has become my time pass now a days.

i had prminsed earlier to post on bread jamun. so here is the recipe and picture of it.

ingredients:

6 bread slices
sugar 1 cup
oil for deep fry
water as required
cardamom( optional)

process:






take 6 bread slices in a bowl , add adequate water and make it to a dough. then roll then into small balls.keep them aside.



take a kadai, add oil and deep fry them in oil,t ill it become golden brown. take another bowl add sugar and water , make it to a syrup.then put these balls in sugar syrup. for flavor you can add a cardamom. eat after refrigerating it.

note: the ball will not completely absorb the sugar syrup. it would taste like a mild sweet.

weekend cooking

i made vegetable rava idili and cutlet.. so enjoy seeing the pics :). dont ask me for the recipe.. i just added what i got in my hand and put my creativity in it.. :).

It happens only in my kitchen..

I wanted to make palak paneer. Yes, you heard me right. I am not a great cook. I look into you tube or blogs for recipes and make it. In fact I learnt the basic rasam that way. I am still in my maternity leave na. So, I have lots of time at home, when baby sleeps.

Coming back to where I started palak paneer. When I googled I got sanjeev kapoors link. It was simple. Here is the recipe. The recipe was for 2 bunches’ of palak. But great me, took the proportion for one bunch. It resulted in too much of chilli taste. What did I do?? I looked at the second link. I introduced my own idea of adding potato to it. Oh, I forgot to say that I bought palak 2 days ago, it was half dry. And I forgot to buy paneer. So, I bought liter milk extra to make panner. But what will you get out of milk in water ( ya, my milk man doesn’t put water in milk but he puts milk in water. You understand what I mean na.) so, the quantity of paneer what I got was small. So, need potato to make it taste better.

So, after preparing the curry, I had to take another kadai. Start with oil, jeera again. Added onions this time. Fried the boiled potatoes in it and then added the first made dish to it. And my mom came into kitchen asked me,” you didn’t put kotamalli and karvepilai( coriander and curry leaves)”. So I added that also and made it a south Indian flavor.

Finally, the dish is ready. But in spite all efforts, the chilli taste dominates. But, my darling family is ready to eat my experiment.

Forgot to say, I am cooking a new dish every day. I am sure, all of you wondering why now. I realised that, my daughter is going to ask me, “don’t you know to cook this also?”. So, I am getting ready. What are you thinking now? What did I do all these days till I got my daughter? Ha ha ha.. Lucky me, had my MIL cooking for me and packing Dabba for me..

50kg TAJMAHAL ( me)

I have become 50kgs. Yes, it was my dream to put on weight and touch 50.. I have been trying to put on for past 6 to 7 years..

Efforts by me to put on weight:

1. Eating lots of ghee, kind of finished a bottle a week
2. I used to sleep in afternoon after a heavy lunch
3. I used to have pizza with extra cheese on all weekends
4. I used to eat lots of banana’s
5. I used to eat rice all three times a day
6. I used to eat plain cheese cubes
7. I used to eat sweets, though I prefer spicy food

But nothing worked. Everybody around me were jealous, as I eat a lot but don’t put on weight. Finally one of my friends told,” ondana gudu ava”( if u become pregnant, u will put on weight). Finally the tip worked.. I have put on 5 kgs . hoping to put on another 5 kgs by end of my trimester. J

Note: I hope not to put on anymore than that. Or else it would be difficult reduce later..

Treat!!!

Yesterday was a treat.. I wonder how all good things happen on same day. Few days back, I had casually told my friends that I feel like eating Gulab Jamun. One of them took it serious and had made it specially for me. She had got it to office to give me. She opened a box full of jamun and asked me to have as many as I want... wow it tasted really good.

After having a sweet, its general tendency of anyone to ask for something spicy to eat. Another friend just dropped in with a plate of chilli bajji. I was on cloud nine eating my favourite dishes..

With all happiness, I went home to tell MIL about the jamuns. To my surprise, my neighbours have given “sunuonda” and chicken briyani.

Wow what a day it was. Wish it happens once in a while.

Note: all this happens only if you are pregnant and shamelessly tell people around you about your cravings. And you would be leaving the city soon. J