Showing posts with label My Cooking Passion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label My Cooking Passion. Show all posts

Kitchen Mistakes We Often Do!

Some of the common mistakes I have seen we all women commit while cooking,baking or cutting resulting in half cooked veg or cake doesn't comes out soft.So compiled this list, which I often use it myself in kitchen


  1. Cut all veggies of equal size, or else thin ones would get cooked quickly and the thicker ones may be left uncooked,
  2. Don't sprinkle dry spices, in gravy or else they wont be mixed properly leaving lumps in the gravy.
  3. Don't store green chilly with its head, remove the head and then store it. It would remain fresh for days
  4. Don't boil tea leaves for more than three minutes, the taste could be ruined.
  5. Always use boiled water to add to gravy, never add cold water as it reduces its taste
  6. While baking, never use refrigerated butter or milk, always use them on room temperature.
  7. While baking, never fill the mould more than three-fourth of its size, or else the cake wont have space to get puffed.
  8. While baking never use baking powder instead or baking soda and vice-verse
  9. Never overcook paneer, or else it  gets hardened
  10. For any exotic paneer veggie, make sure to put spices just few minutes before putting it down from flame or else spice taste and texture gets ruined , as it is exposed to flame.




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Mango Delicacies

Summers are gone and so now one can devote some good time in kitchen and so after loong gap I tried some mango recipes.

Mango Kesar Rice



Mango Kulfi


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Happy Anniversary to Us!

And so for the special day... I baked ... Milkpowder Eggless Cake and this I made from wheat flour :)
And it came out pretty well :)






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My New Year - Food Love

I know its bit late to post this but still its just nine days old...

My Milkmaid cake and Palak ki neemki :)




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An eventful weekend ended ……..

It was more of a happening type of weekend, I really didn’t wasted it by sleeping till 10, 11…12. And also didn’t waste watching crap on TV.

On Friday evening, the cook inside me was in full form and the desire of baking a banana muffin since last weekend actually ended. I started at around 8:30 and he started giggling all over, as he was quite sure of the result. After about 2 hrs of my hard work and nuisance, something was there lying on plate to serve our taste buds. Some traits of the “thing” (I shouldn't call it as muffin):

  • It wasn’t looking the way it should :(
  • When it was hot it was like a big muffin but as it came to room temperature, it appeared as if the air inside it has disappeared. It was flat :$
  • Who would taste it? That was the next question – and I follow a principle for myself, “One who cooks should not taste it “ now as I gave him one “tukda” and he grabbed it , no comments after that . :O
  • When I took that tukda I found that it has gone sticky, as I did mixed ample amount of banana into it …. :D
Finally the “thing” is still lying in my fridge . Anyone who is interested to taste it .

On Saturday , I made up my mind to prepare “lonjee”(Don’t know what it is called in English, it is made up of raw mango but is sweet in taste due to jaggery.) Now that was easy, but I was cooking it for the first time so was not aware of the proportion , each time I put in some jaggery and ask him to taste it.. “Arrey nahi khatta hain “… this came around twice and thrice, this time I put in ample amount of jaggery and result “ arrey kitna meetha hain “. :@ Now the pending task is to ….. modify it!!! Damn man :(

On Sunday, no no no experiments this time. Had a simple lunch !!! But we did watched Sarkar Raj!!! :z

I liked it, if you liked Sarkar you should go for it, it is a slow movie but the plot is damn good.!!!Aishwarya for the second time after Josh is looking beautiful to me. And really acted very well. May be, I haven’t noticed but Did Abhi smiled in the whole movie? His roles are now appearing monotonous to me. He should try something different now. Tanisha was looking fabulous… isn’t? Really sweet.

Is any comment needed for Mr B… ?? He was in full form

Finally, at the end was French Open final, again Federer lost it. :c Match was quite boring , and wasn’t appearing as “Final”.

And then the day ended …. Monday has just arrived and I m writing this crap!!! :v


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