Wordless Thursday

    These three pics were taken by my father, at my home....he loves photography!

Every year these lil birds are nested on the Araucaria tree in our garden, Mom n me took this pic long way back 

This summer season please help these little birds, by placing a bowl filled with fresh n cool water in your garden, terrace, balcony, backyard.... Summers are hot for them too.They will simply bless you.

It's chocolaty....yummy !

All the chocolate lovers out there, this post is dedicated to you all......

....not this much all the Cadbury Dairymilk Chocolate lovers..

.this post is dedicated to you guys also. 

Here is my special chocolate kulfi for you all.

Ingredients:

Cadbury Dairymilk Chocolate (I used the normal one but you can use your fav one)
Milkmaid Condense milk 1L pack

Toned milk 1 n half L
Kulfi molds

Method:

• First of all boil the toned milk 
• Add the cubes of chocolate in it and stir well, till the chocolate melts thoroughly.
• Add full cane of condensed milk in it
• If you like, can add some dry-fruits too.
• After cooling down, pour it in to kulfi molds and keep it in refrigerator for setting up to 7-8 hrs.

The Chocolate kulfi is ready to eat....................enjoy! and do tel me how you like it.

Favorite track 2

Yeh Mera Deewanapan Hai..............by Susheela Raman

Dil Se Tujhko Bedili Hai Mujhko Hai Dil Ka Guroor Tu Yeh Maane Ya Na Maane Log Maanenge Zaroor Yeh Mera Deewanapan Hai Ya Mohabbat Ka Suroor Tu Na Pehchaane To Hai Yeh Teri Nazron Ka Kusoor Yeh Mera Deewanapan ... Dil Ko Teri Hi Tamanna Dil Ko Hai Tujhse Hi Pyar Chaahe Tu Aaye Na Aaye Hum Karenge Intezaar Yeh Mera Deewanapan... Aise Veerane Mein Ek Din Ghut Ke Mar Jayenge Hum Jitna Ji Chaahe Pukaro Phir Nahin Aayenge Hum Yeh Mera Deewanapan...

And the old version....or the original song by ..Mukesh

Roadiezzzzzz

Yesterday me & my husband saw MTV Roadies-1 episodes on youtube. MTV Roadies, the first reality show which grabs millions of youngster's attention in India, which was started in 2003 and still on. Well the purpose of writing this post is simple, as I haven't watched the very 1st season of it earlier, knew that Ranvijay who is current host of the show was the winner of season -1, so it germinate curiosity in me to see how was the very 1st Roadies season.

Well there is a vast difference in season-1 roadies and Today's roadies seasons.

That time auditions were simple, nothing hype in it.
It was started with only 7 contestant
All the contestant were made to live in OK types hotels/ resorts.
They have to manage their own budget
The full Roadies journey was covered on bikes only, now days bikes can be seen only at the time of vote-out.
and and and, the funniest part was, Raghu the producer was more skinny than today's Raghu.

Here are some videos of it:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HLnM2ItPPhI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_detailpage&v=9O1grmqwV-o
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r63VtdJcsRw&feature=channel&list=UL

Sunday Special !

Today what I had in lunch.....is what I really wanted to have for last 2 days.I finally gave up thinking of it in my brain and bring it out straight on to my plate......'Moong Ki daal ka cheela'

As I have mention this before on this blog that I love snacks n this what anyone can have in breakfast or evening 7 pm snack time.The best part of cooking is that, there nothing any hard n fast rule to cook any dish in a conventional way, you can add some twist, fusion to it at any step.

Moong ki daal ka cheela is very popular authentic north Indian snack....which is usually eaten with chutneys or raita.

Ingredients:

Split moong dal 500gms pre-soaked overnight in 2-3 glass of water.
1 spoon cumin seeds.
Pinch of Asafoetida/hing
Salt as per taste

For filling:

4 boiled potatos or you can take 250 gms of paneer.
1 spoon of finely chopped green chilies.
Half bowl of finely chopped coriander
Salt as per taste
Bowl of namkeen save or bhujia

Method: For chilla filling:

• Take a khadayi pan, heat it add 2 spoons of oil.
• Add mustard seeds,1spoon haldi, spoon of coriander powder and red chilli powder to it.
• Quickly add boiled potatoes slightly mashed in it.
• Saute it well, add salt as per taste.
• Add chopped coriander,green chilies and mix it well.

For Chilla/ pan-cakes

• Take overnight soaked moong dal in a grinder, drain excess of water.
• Add cumin seeds,salt,asafoetida in it and grind it finely.
• Take out the paste in a bowl and adjust the consistency by adding water, keep it medium like dosa.
• Heat the flate pan, grease it with some oil.
• Pour a ladle full of chilla paste over and spread it evenly.
• Let it roast properly, slightly golden brown then toss it to other side.
• Toss it again now, place a spoon full of filling over the chilla, sprinkle some namkeen save on top.
• Now fold the chilla from both side and it's ready to serve.

[Tips] In case you don't have overnight soaked dal then you can soak dal in slightly warm water or microwave it for 2-3 min and keep it for 1-2 hrs.

Chilly Chana

It include frying of chick pea, Honestly, I have never thought of it, I have always cooked chick pea in conventional way (chole chawal), Once my mom had told me about this snack. Though, I have tried falafel from chick pea, which was awesome.

So, here's the Chilly Chana.

Ingredients:

Boiled chick pea 2 cup (soaked overnight, boil in the morning.)

1 large onion, cut in to pieces.

1 Capsicum cut in to pieces.

Salt as per taste.

Soy sauce 2 spoons

Green chili sauce 1 spoon

Tomato sauce, as per your taste.

Cucumber chopped.

Method:   

• First of all deep fry boiled chick pea, keep aside on kitchen towel.
• Now heat a pan, put 2 spoons of oil, fry onion till transparent, add salt.
• Add capsicum, fry it till soften.
• Now add fried chick peas in it and saute it.
• Add 2 spoons of soy sauce, green chili sauce,tomato sauce and again saute it properly.
• Place it in a serving bowl/plate, now garnish with chopped cucumber and serve hot. 

Mango Kulfi

We are blessed by nature with many things, whatever we eat, comes from mother nature.All flavors are inspired us to create our food delicious. Summers are here, The season of Mangoes. Who love mangoes......I do!!!! And Sanjeev Kapoor too, India's one of the top chef, who sprinkle a magic on every recipe he makes in his cookery show 'Khana Khazana'. I admire him a lot, he's my fav chef.

This mango kulfi he made in his show, excites  me to make my own. I tried it and it came out really delicious as he told and showed.

This can be a amazing dessert item you can add to your lunch or dinner menu for this summer. Especially kids will like it, the way it presented, is really interesting.

     
To make it:

Ingredients:

Two Middle size mangoes.

1/2L milk.

2 large spoon of mango puree.

1 cup of condensed milk.

Method:

• Take a pan, boil the milk properly.
• Add 1 cup condensed milk to it, there is no need to add sugar, as condensed milk itself is sweetened, if you are using canned one (I used Milkmaid condensed milk)
• Now add mango puree, if the mango is bit sour , you better add 2 spoons of sugar in it and mix well, so that it won't curdle the milk.
• Now let this mixture of kulfi cools for 10 min.
• Mean while take mango, cut an half inch from above, and scoop out carefully the white seed without destroying the shape of mango.
• Now fill the mango cavity with the kulfi mix (to hold the mango straight in freezer keep it on a small glass) 
• Let is be set for 7-8 hrs.
• while presenting cut the mango in two halves.

    

Here's the delicious mango kulfi......enjoy it!