cabbage thoran

i really wonder how the authentic dishes taste

maybe next time, i better google a lot and compare recipes and learn to imagine whats the difference in taste. hopefully, i find versions of recipes that uses more of the powders. as mustard seeds, cumin seeds etc are not readily available here.

anyway, i was joining orkut communities on food and saw this recipe on cabbage.

good! i have so many leftover cabbages from weekend! so i tried to whip this up (^_^)

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kichadi

was wondering what to do with the rest of the leftover vegetables...

today i have to drink antibiotics after dinner, so decided to cook.

but what?

went to the vegetable khorma recipe. it was too complicated. googled again and found something with simpler instructions.

so decided to buy potatoes and green peas. picked up a potato but saw there where chopped potatoes and carrots. decided on those instead. and grabbed a small pack of peas.

hmm... dessert?

egg tart came to mind.

so cooked what i bought, together with the leftover green beans, cauliflower and baby corn.

it just doesnt have cashews and chillies.

before finishing, a friend volunteered to tell me the hindi term for it.

voila!

looks like those on google images, doesn't it?

kow moo dang

Hmm I had a blooper browning the egg for this one, the marinade was burning already so i stirred in the flour water mixture and remembered too late i havent turned the egg yet. Next time, i better stick to non-stick pans (^_^)

Anyway the recipe says the sauce should be salty and sweet, mine turned to be sour and sweet. Loved it anyway! Haha!

First time for me to grill on stove top. The barbecued pork turned out just fine. It cooked just right and was still tender, as i was worrying i will dry it out.

Overall... i did better on this one than the meal this afternoon.

chinese noodles

I got a recipe of chinese noodles from a indo-chinese website.

I wondered how it would taste. Got to try and make this.

I went to the grocery and as usual buying for a single percon recipe is a challenge. Maybe I'll just buy baby corn, snowpeas and vinegar and thats it. Or so I thought as hoisin sauce I may not use again.

Hmm...

In the grocery i saw a pack of baby corn with probably as much as 20 pieces of it. Oops! I can't buy that, so i went to this vegetable combination pack counter and saw one for chop suey. But the cabbage was a lot!

Then saw that I can buy fewer cabbage so i bought that and went back to settle with only bell pepper and maybe snowpeas. Whoah! The snowpeas where also too much and the bell pepper pack always contained 4 pieces and cost near as much as the chop suey pack. So, I was back to the chop suey pack.

I guess i was not born a chef...
I was wondering towards the end of the cooking why there is no salt. Haha!

I should have known better and googled hoisin sauce first. Anyway good thing this fine Iodized salt has been invented, (I grew up on rock salt my childhhod days) so with this I could easily sprinkle while eating.

So here it is... though id probably study pancit canton filipino style to check the difference (^_^)

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egg bhurji

Finally gotten around to the egg bhurji...


so this is what its called. i have tasted this from food courts in singapore malls. its usually served with combination meals.





hmm... after eating my dinner, i thought i should have dared to buy the green chillies. as i actually forgot to put in chili powder.


still... it was a taste special to itself, as it really became a variation from my dad's favorite scrambled eggs with onions and tomatoes.

hmm... i wonder what too much curry will do to me.

hehe (^_^)

Kerala Chicken Curry

Last night, I thought up of cooking egg bhurji for today's lunch.

Ooops! I found out I didnt have tomatoes. Since, I woke up late and lazy, I ended up showering by 1pm. I had to do grocery anyway, so I bought the ingredients for the curry alongside.

Hmm... coming home, I preferred to cook the curry instead. So I bustled from the laptop to the kitchen to check back and forth on the recipe while cooking. Its just a few steps away (-_^).

Indian cooking is more complicated with pans than Filipino cooking. Anyhow I managed to finish. Turned the left over yoghurt into mango lassi...

And VOILA!

You are looking at my lunch.

Kerala chicken curry with brown rice and mango lassi to end up the meal with sweetness.

I Loved the way the sweetness of the apple contrasted the sour curry sauce and wondered if buying the sweetened yoghurt was better. Anyway, the perfectionist in me wondered how the authentic dish could have tasted. Noone here to criticize either. Haha!

Til the next dish...