gaeng kiew warn kai/ or thai green curry with chicken

25. May 2009 0 comments

heres one of the first thai curry recipes i learnt when i trained a long while back in baan thai at the oberoi.
Prakob Samnaruen the Thai master chef, taught me this one,after wards we had inputs from Chef Chandok.and over the course of many thai restaurant visits, planting of kaffir lime trees in Pune, Trinidad, [...]

bebinca -chef dilraj, and creative insights from the rasquinhas

14. May 2009 0 comments

Ingredients:
9 egg yolks
150 gms. maida
¼ spoon nutmeg powder
400 gms. sugar
600 ml coconut milk
Butter or ghee for greasing
Method:
Take the coconut milk in a bowl and dissolve sugar in it thoroughly. Now
beat the yolks into this mixture well and then put the flour into this
liquid mixture and blend it will. Don?t let the granules to form from
the [...]

Listerine VS Macleans- and the winner is macleans

14. May 2009 0 comments

in my humble opinion as a consumer, i think that macleans is a better mouth wash than listerine.
why?
cos i used macleans before then went and bought a bottle of  listerine, and 
lo and behold, i found that i preferred the taste of macleans, over listerine which burns ( even though i bought the less burning kinda [...]

Sanju bindras choc cupcake

03. May 2009 0 comments

eggs -2 nos
sugar- 220 gms
flour- 110 gms
dark cocoa pdr-120 gms
baking pdr-10 gms
vanilla essence – little
milk- 160 ml
butter -150 gms
chocolate chips – optional, and depends on you really!!!- but abt 100 gms is good.

process

sieve together the flour, cocoa, and baking pdr.
cream butter and  sugar till light , fluffy and creamy.add  eggs till they are incorporated.
add the [...]

khandvi/or chick pea flour swiss rolls , somehow

26. Apr 2009 0 comments

besan flour/chick peas flour- 100 gms
buttermilk-three times by volume approximately 275 ml
asafoetida/hing- pinch
turmeric-pinch
sugar-5 gms
salt- 3 gms

whisk all the ingredients together. cook over a very low heat till starts to thicken to dropping consistency rather like a pound cake batter. the next part is crucial. you have to use greased flat trays to spread the mixture [...]

the choc brownie from heaven…the day ashwini cooked dessert.

13. Apr 2009 0 comments

deep dark chocolate , the darker the “betterer”-50 % cocoa content ++ is sexier-285 gms

eggs – 3 whole
castor sugar- 270 gms
flour 45 gms
cocoa , bitter, and dark again-85 gms
butter -185 gms
nuts – if u like them then u can add some, of any kind chopped

process of making the thing.

melt the butter and chocolate together.
sift the [...]

gajar gobi aur shalgam ka achar, or punjabi winter pickle,

31. Mar 2009 0 comments

carrots- 500 gms,
cauliflower- 1.2 kgs
turnips/swedes-500 gms

for the tempering, masala

mustard oil-100 ml
fennel seeds- 5 gms
mustard seeds  -3-4 gms little less than 1 tsp.
black pepper crushed-20 gms
jaggery/brown sugar/raw sugar- 200 gms or so, depends on taste
cumin whole- 5 gms
coriander powder- 20 gms
asafoetida- 1 gms
red chilli powder- 25 gms
ginger  peeled and chopped- 20 gms
raisins – sometimes( u add [...]

samak harra-or fish as chef ibrahim hadla used to cook.

26. Mar 2009 0 comments

this recipe owes a lot to le petit fleur de liban, M.ibrahim hadla, from the lush green mountains of lebanon.
yes, came out pretty good, even tho, we used a not so great fish.but this recipe is great for cooking even a not so great fish.the following recipe will serve 4 , if served on [...]

lemongrass creme brulee,

24. Mar 2009 0 comments

500 ml cream heat and add crushed lemongrass stems abt 5 .
mix 6 egg yolks with 60 gms sugar and add the hot cream mix whisking well
Divide into ramekins or oven proof ceramic bowls. then heat in a water bath for abt 25 mins at 300 F, has an amazing refreshing flavour. tastes even [...]