Simple is delicious!

Saturday 2 May 2009 | Posted by Kishi | Chutney,Fruits

chutneyOkay weekend is here, I thought I would party or go out but been occupied with this or that. Made few cakes for orders…one of my client’s favourite colours is Purple so made purple flowers. Magnificent it was!!

What’s for dinner….a roti with mango chutney and some dahi (yogurt)…it’s not the most extravagant meal but it’s pleasurable in its own way! Simple is delicious!

Here is the recipe for the mango chutney:

MANGO CHUTNEY

Ingredients Amounts

Onions, small dice 1 no.
Garlic, minced 1 ½ clove
Curry powder 1 ½ tsp.
Turmeric ¾ tsp.
Ground coriander ¾ tsp.
Vinegar (red wine or malt) 1 ½ cup
Sugar ¾ cup
Dried chilies as needed
Cloves 3 ea.
Salt t.t.
Mangoes, 3 ea.

Method
1. Sweat onion and garlic.
2. Add spices and sauté until aromatic.
3. Add vinegar, sugar, chili, cloves, salt, and mangoes. Simmer 30 minutes.

Note: Cut ends from mango. Slice off the skin. Cut next to the pit on both sides producing 2 halves. dice cut in shapes you like…I suggest cut randomly!

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A bowl of strawberries

Sunday 26 April 2009 | Posted by Kishi | Fruits

My mother got some amazing strawberries today. Supposedly they were from Chandigarh.

I was looking around for something different I could do and I came across a website dedicated to strawberry. Fascinating:

 Strawberry

http://www.strawberries.com/

 

Work was busy and reading things online that I just had a bowl of plain strawberries and I enjoyed them a lot!

 

Ps: On that note I made a big strawberry chocolate cake for my friend’s son’s second birthday party.

 

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Mulberry-Fruit composed of smalled fruits…

Friday 10 April 2009 | Posted by Kishi | Fruits

Mulberry

Mulberry

Its quite muggy weather and I was thinking of time I was in Laos and all of a sudden I wanted to drink the tea I got from there. I am not a big coffee aficionado, in fact not at all. But a hard core tea drinker and have a tendency to collect tea from all the places I visit be it Dharamkot, or Vancouver or earthy local shops in San Diego. 

Mulberry is very popular in Laos and so is Mulberry tea/wine etc. It’s primarily grown to raise silk worms. I picked it up from Van Vieng. It had become a local drink there and lots of people had started there own organic farms. Mulberry tea does have a lot of health benefits from controlling cholesterol to weight loss to fix problems in kidneys and it has basic eminence of any tea – antioxidants!!

I quickly boiled some water and added the tea leaves let it steep for a min or two and its ready to drink. The taste is very distinct and nothing in common with the mulberries we eat in India (shehtoot as they say in Hindi).A lot might find the taste as insipid. But the tea has a very delicate fragrance. My recollection of mulberry was to collect the fruit when few friends shook the trees in school at Lodhi road and the berries would break open coz they were so flimsy and get a scolding from mom as the stains wouldn’t wash out.JI reckon it was the funny note on the wall that I read in van Vieng while sipping on the tea and some great food that I had that I still laugh a lot when I drink the tea every once in a while at home:)

 

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