Lets make these Quarantine days interesting!

M ost of us find brinjals boring so my Aunt has found a recipe to make the brinjal tastier and interesting. So here I bring a recipe from Mrs Mita Mandal 's recipe list who being a modern passionate cook makes every recipe wonderful with her inventions. Stuffed Brinjal: Ingredients: Brinjal Onion Garlic Mustard oil Turmeric Red chilly powder Cumin powder Coriander powder Curd Salt to taste Sugar to taste Recipe: Wash the brinjals thoroughly and then slit from the middle. Cut out the inner part(flesh) of the brinjal make it empty. Keep the flesh of the brinjal aside. Mix the brinjal with salt. Now grind the onion , garlic and the flesh of brinjal which we kept aside earlier into a paste. Now take a cooking pot put two spoons of mustard oil in it. Now pour the paste in it and cook well. Add cumin powder, coriander powder , red chilly powder, sugar and curd. Stir well and keep aside to cool. This is the stuffing. Now take the brinjals and stuff them with the stuffing. Now again put s...

A nother Recipe from my Mom's recipe list which will make your every taste bud sound Umma! I bet. Although the procedure is a little time consuming but the result is really worth it. Not taking much time let me share the recipe for: Special Rajma: Special Rajma Ingredients: (For 4 people) Red Rajma seeds(soaked over night)-100 gm Tomato sauce/Tomatoes(I have used here Maggi hot and spicy tomato sauce) Green Chillies -2  Onion -1 big Ginger- 10 gm Garlic- 10 gm Coriander(Dhania) powder- 1 spoon Cumin(Jeera) powder- 1 spoon Coriander leaves Mustard oil Salt to taste If adding tomato then Sugar is to be added to get a balanced taste. Procedure: In a pressure cooker add the overnight soaked rajma seeds and add water and let it cook until Rajma seeds become soft(If needed open  pressure cooker and check the rajmas because each kind of rajma seeds take different time to cook). In the mean time take ginger ,garlic and chillies and grind it to a paste. Now take the coriander leaves cu...

                    "Cooking is no more tough!"                                                            -Priyanka H ello! Today I have brought a very special recipe  from my mother's cooking diary . A very unique and easy recipe which she has learned in Maharastra from a neighbour long back! From then it has been our one of the favourite food . Most importantly it can go with sauce , chatni and even with Tea !yeah you read it right  with simple Tea it tastes wonders ! SOOJI/RAWA IDLI Ingredients: Idli making vessel Sooji/Rawa- 500gm Curd- 250 gm Baking soda- 1 pinch Salt-1 pinch Mustard Oil Procedure: For the batter: Mix Sooji/Rawa, curd, baking soda and salt. Stir it well until perfect consistency. Leave for 5- 10 mins. Take a pot/handi and fill it 1-2 ...

COVID 19 pandemic not only is taking our lives but is actually changing our whole life style. Effecting not only our manners and habits but also our whole way of living and earning! How? lets dig into it thinking together: Corona Virus It changed our hygiene habits definitely, using sanitizer was not at all a habit for  many. Now we are very much concern of keeping ourselves sanitized. Wearing mask is a must in this COVID 19 period, but this also has some benefits, pollutants entering our lungs will definitely get minimised. It is a plus point for those especially who have dust allergies, knowing unknowingly statistics show about 10-30% of the world population has dust allergy which is the main cause of our bad health .  There are also drawbacks of wearing it, wearing mask for a long time may cause bleeding due to friction with our face , also there may be increase in crime rates i.e criminals may take the advantage of the mask. I being a woman have seen molesters gener...

S ummer has arrived! Sun has already started scorching heat enough to burn our skin. Well summer brings happiness too, it bring with it the sweet juicy tasty fruits!  In this post I am going to share two tasty and unique recipes specially for summer. Yet again this recipe is not mine and all credit goes to little sis Pubali Pal for such an innovative and easy recipe which will definitely bring water to your mouth and you will feel the coolness in this hot summer through your both eyes! Watermelon Slush: Watermelon Slush Ingredients: Watermelon -200g Honey-2 tbsp Mint leaves- 4 to 5 Lemon -1/2 Recipe: Cut watermelon into small cubes. Place them on a plate keeping spaces in between. Freeze them over night.  Take a blender and add the frozen watermelon pieces, mint leaves, honey and lemon juice.  Blend them until it reaches perfect consistency. Pour the watermelon blend in a container and spread it evenly. Freeze it for 1-2 hours. Take the container out. Use a fork to break...

L ockdown has been extended and may be some of us have started feeling worthless staying at home and doing nothing productive. COVID 19 is taking huge turn so its better to follow the lockdown declared by the government and not to go out! Although many are working from home still there is a lot of time to feel bored! Being locked up inside the house for such a long time is degrading our mental health. So in this post I decided to share a way to make these continuously increasing lockdown days productive! How? By going Digital! We all are in a digital era! From a 4 year child to 80 year person every one is using technology! We play games, surf net, click pictures , make videos and so much more! But normally a person only  uses this technology. How many of us think and try to find out like how the videos on YouTube are being made? How the games are made? How the pictures are being clicked? What are the tools being used? Where are the tools coming from? Many of you may be thi...

                         Cooking is like love, it should be entered into with abandon or not at all!                                                                                                                              - Julia Child H ello! Everyone out there! Today I have decided to post a very unique as well as healthy breakfast recipe which you will definitely not find so easily in other cooking blogs and videos.  Quarantine and cooking are more or les...

H ello everybody! Hope your quarantine is going well and you are safe out there! Thinking about quarantine what comes to your mind at first? At home with food? Exactly! So I have decided to share an interesting and easy recipes for you to cook this quarantine. Well I won't lie but I got the recipe from an old friend of mine, an Upcoming advocate and a passionate cook Ritika Kurmy! So Tadaaa....     Paneer Butter Masala! Paneer Butter Masala Ingredients: Paneer 200 gm Refine oil Onions-1 large tomatoes-2 small Milk- 100 ml Butter 2 Teaspoons Dry milk (Khoya or Mawa) Cashew nuts - 10 gm Salt to taste Few coriander leaves. Procedure: Cut paneer into cubes and keep aside. Chop the onion and tomatoes.  In a pan add oil, chopped onions, chopped tomatoes, cashew nuts and salt. Fry till the tomatoes become soft! Cool it down and grind it to a fine paste. Grind some milk and khoya.  Heat the pan, add butter and add the grinded paste. Cook for another 5-7 minutes. Add the milk...

P erhaps this is the first time humans get the feeling of being in a cage! That too for our own security.  Its been around one and half months of Lockdown due to COVID 19 in India. And the lockdown seems never ending. Perhaps once in a lifetime we have faced such a never ending lockdown. Not even our Grandparents or their Grand parents have faced such a situation in their lives in history. Is it true that we were never been caged? Well let me put some points to begin the debate : What about the prisoners?  What about a section of females? Yes, so human have been imprisoned before also. What has not come to our notice is their mental health! This is the first time a mass of people together getting the taste of being locked up . How is it feeling? Let me share some experiences. Perhaps for the first few weeks we all got the long time urging vacation. The PM giving us task to perform from home like applauding for the emergency workers at 5 pm on Sunday, then again on ...