Sunday, March 30, 2014
Chettinad Viral Meen mangai Kuzhambu Chettinad Butterfish murrel Mango gravy
In my last blog, I really disappointed the non-veg lovers by showing a vegetarian fish. That was the case for the people at home too. So when Yesterday when I heard a voice ”Uyir Viral Meen Venumamma”, I ran to open the door and I saw a lady with a big shopper bag in her hand. Seeing her, I thought that I have misheard and asked her again what she was having. She replied that it was the live viral fish. Though I know that live viral fish is available in this part of tamilnadu during this month, I have never seen them live. Sometimes I have heard my husband after returning from the fish market telling that he got live fish. As he brings home the cleaned fish, it was the first time, I am seeing this live. Though it was Saturday and we don’t cook non-veg that day, I was eager to see and get the live ones. I asked for the price and she told that it is 160 Rs per kg. I had no idea of the price and simply told her “Oh, why this much costly”. Hearing me she suddenly got angry and told me,” I will give the whole thing free if you can get cheaper than this” and also that she is giving it for this price just because her husband caught it from a pond and she has no means to store it. I said Ok Ok and she opened the bag. Inside the bag 7 to 8 live fishes were playing inside a plastic bag filled with water. She took 2 big fishes and tried to keep them in the balance several times, and the fish jumped out of it each time. She caught it and kept it again and again. After 5 minutes she lost patience and asked me to bring a plastic bag. She put the fish inside the bag and weighed fast. She asked me” Are you going to cook today”. I said “No”. She asked me to bring a bucket with water, I thought the water was for cleaning but she put the fish inside that and asked for money. Now I understood why she put the fish in the bucket and I told her that, I want the fish to be cleaned and I can store it in the refrigerator. She went on arguing why, I want to refrigerate when I have a chance to have real fresh ones. The whole scene of me catching the live fish next day in my hand and running with it, and trying to kill it and clean it came into my mind and I laughed for myself and leaving my pride told her that, I don’t know to clean that fish. The next fun was seeing her cleaning the fish. The fish was a very slippery one and the lady found it very difficult to catch. She rubbed some mud over it and caught it by its neck so that it can’t move and took out the fins and the side first. Now she cut the head piece and put it inside the vessel. The blood was flowing and she cut the remaining pieces as well. Seeing the blood the real fun I was having till that time went off and I didn’t want to see her cutting the next one. So I went inside and made a cup of tea for her. She washed the fish nicely, had the tea, took the money and went off. I kept the fish inside the kitchen and thought that after sometime I can wash once more, marinate it and keep in the fridge.10 minutes before my husband comes for lunch, I went inside the kitchen to marinate the fish. When I touched the fish, I was shocked. It was slippery as if it is inside a gel. I was worried what to do and called home and asked our Akka what to do now. She told me that the fish should have been scrubbed with a stone or salt before cutting, but now she asked me to take each piece and scrub nicely with big salt spread on the kitchen slab. Oh; it took nearly one hour for me to do this. As I got tired by this itself, I didn’t grind any masala.I just marinated with 2 tablespoon of chili powder and salt and refrigerated it.
Today morning I took it out from the refrigerator and wanted to make an awesome curry with it to overcome the strain of cleaning it.
Viral meen head and tail along with mango is known to be very tasty. I have mangoes in my mango tree now as my tree will bear bruits only in this season. I went to the garden and plucked 2 mangoes and thought that I will take snaps however and if the curry turns good blog the recipe. Believe me, I have never had a fish curry so tasty. It was worth all the strain. The fish pieces inside were like coconut pieces, so fresh. There was a ton of difference between this fish and the frozen fish we get from the market. The procedure for the gravy is the same as for any other fish gravy. Only difference is that, as we are adding mangoes for the sour taste and so only very little tamarind is to be used.
Ingredients
Head and tail pieces of viral-6 pieces
Small onion-20
Garlic pods-20
Tomatoes-2
Mango-2 small ones
Tamarind-1 teaspoon
Chili powder-1 tablespoons
Coriander powder-2 table spoons
Turmeric powder-1 teaspoon
Marinate the fish pieces with ½ teaspoon salt and chili powder for 2 hours.
Cut the onion, garlic and tomatoes into small pieces.
Cut the mangoes into some big pieces. The seed can also be used as such
Keep the kadai in the stove. In two tablespoons of oil season the gravy with a teaspoon of fennel seeds, fenugreek seeds and curry leaf. Sauté the onion, garlic and tomato pieces nicely. Dissolve the tamarind juice in 3 to 4 cups of water. Add the chili powder, coriander powder, turmeric powder and the salt needed to this water. Add this water to the sautéed things in the kadai. Keep the flame in high and let the gravy cook for 5 minutes. Now reduce the flame to low and cook for 10 more minutes. Now add the mango pieces and cook for 3 minutes. Once the mango pieces are cooked slowly add the fish pieces one by one in such a way that they are inside the gravy. Now you can find that the gravy becomes little watery due to the high water content in the gravy. To give room for this extra water only we cook the gravy till it becomes thick before adding the fish. After adding the fish you cannot cook for a long time. The fish will get cooked within 7 minutes .Once you feel that the fish pieces are cooked switch off the stove. If desired a teaspoon of coconut oil can be added on top of the gravy to get extra flavor
Saturday, March 29, 2014
Potato Bajji Urulaikizhangu Bajji
Lemon Curd “Lite” Not Light
Speaking of relative, as I mention in the video, this would make a great holiday gift, so even if you’re not a big fan of lemon, pay attention nonetheless.
Friday, March 28, 2014
Cornmeal Pancakes
Delicious with maple syrup, honey, peanut butter, applesauce, applebutter, jam; all the usual pancake accompaniments in other words. These are a bit more solid and moist than regular pancakes with a nice delicate flavour. As always with pancakes, honestly: buttermilk is so much better than regular milk. It keeps extremely well (generally a couple of weeks past the date on the carton) and is useful in all kinds of baking. It should get used more often.
12 4" pancakes
40 minutes prep time
1 cup cooked cooled cornmeal mush
1 tablespoon sugar
2 eggs
1 cup flour
2 teaspoons baking powder
1/4 teaspoon salt
about 1 cup buttermilk or milk
mild vegetable oil to cook
Preheat the oven to 150° to 200°F. Put your plates in there to get warm.
Mix the sugar into leftover cornmeal mush. Beat in the eggs.
Mix the baking powder and salt into the flour, then beat it in.
Mix in the buttermilk to make a smooth, pourable batter. Start with 1/2 cup and add more as needed; 1 cup will probably be about right, but it depends on how thick your cornmeal turned out and how thick you would like your pancakes to be. You will likely need a bit more buttermilk than you would plain milk.
Cook in an oiled pan at pancake temperature for about 2 minutes on each side, until nicely browned. Keep them warm in the oven on the plates there until they are all cooked.
Last year at this time I made Paprika Soup.
Remove OMA Hystads recipes food cooking stain cleaning tips
This article is no recipes bar blends, but only need information, tips on cooking and hard to patch to remove cleaning tips.
BACK TO COOKING SCHOOL.
The General rules.
TENDER CUTS that can be cooked meat, dry heat, as in frying pan -
Frying or roasting.
TOUGH CUTS can only be made tender moist heat, as in pot roast and
Simmer.
Our main goal is to prevent shrinkage, as far as possible and
produce a tender, juicy, delicious Produkt.In roasting does little searing
Thus remains in juices, leads to less shrinkage at a lower temperature for
a longer time (300 F) .Sengendes however makes the meat look attractive and
the outer layers taste that is better.
A uptick pan with a rack in the lower offers the best results
Roasting. cooking time varies with preference.
For rare meat, 16 minutes per pound.
For medium-sized meat 22 minutes per pound.
Done for good meat, 30 minutes per pound.
Salt add during or after cooking, not vor.Der salt taste not penetrate.
more than 1 Zoll.Wenn meat the color achieved during the roasting,.
increase heat to (500 F) for a few minutes before removing from pan.
The searing methods is subject the meat a high temperature until it
is well browned.
Browing in an uncovered pan in a hot oven (450 F-powerful).
Browing in hot fat in a pan on the surface burner.
By adding boiling water and cook at temperature until the
outside of the meat has lost its red colour.
Why the kitchen meat
Taste to develop.
If any, in large quantities to mitigate the connective tissue.
All living organisms to kill can be present.
LIGHTSIDE
Teachers gave their class a test on birds. decided to test in a different way.
Rather then text you were with only your students images of birds, but with her legs.
The students had to figure out the legs to include the name of the birds.
A male student took a look on the test, grab the paper stormed the
Teachers desk, threw the paper on your desk and started to leave the room.
The teacher heard him and asked his Namen.Der student enabled
his pant leg raised and answered, find "you there".
One soup
When you buy a roast from the bone was trimmed, remember you pay
sue for the Knochen.Machen ask for it and use it to make broth or soup
Lager.Wann is cooked bones in water for a long time, a substance within.
It turns into gelatine.This dissolves in hot water and to the soup stock is available.
Soup stock is improved hinzufügen.Die are some meat hardest as sections such as the
economy, which are rich in gustative are best.Very little food is dissolved in water out
Use the soup meat in Left-Over Gerichte.Zur improve the taste add onions or Oxon cubes.
Brown the meat, improves the Geschmack.Bei Brown third-soup
the meat in bone marrow or fat.Add cold water to the bone to decken.Bis to the heat
Simmering temperature and cooking slowly for about 3 hours. vegetables can
in the last hour werden.Sellerie added sheets for added taste.
Reasons for the kitchen meat.
Taste to develop.
Mitigate the connective tissue.
From killing living beings.
OVEN ROAST.
Prepare meat in General cooking rules above.
Place on a rack in dripping pan and dig out meat.
Follow the General rules for roast you serve with Brown gravy.
Brown sauce.
Appreciate grease in the pan.
Add the same amount of flour with spice to taste.
Add boiling water to make the consistency of the medium white sauce.
Cook taste of raw starch to none.
Season with salt and pepper.
REMOVE STAINS
Before washing it is important that all stains removed werden.manchmal
SOAP or hot water determines a spot and make it impossible.
Berry stain, place the colored part about a pot and casting you of boiling water
about it from a height of 2 metres to the stain with strike
Kraft.Den dyed part above and down in the hot water up to overthrow the
Stain away do spot persistent is, use Javelle water.
Peach stains, you are not easy to entfernen.Achten wipe hands with
Peach spots on a good napkin, a towel or Schürze.Stretch stain on a pot
warm water and apply Javelle water with a medicine Dropper.Lassen you it is not
Water keep in touch with the fibres to lang.Javelle rots even cotton
and Bettwäsche.anwenden oxalic acid solution for the alkaline and rinse naturalize
thoroughly in hot Wasser.Mehrere applications may be necessary.
Tea and coffee stains.
Pass up the same procedures as for Berry stains.
Blood and meat juice.
Never put in hot water like the stain festlegt.Auf once cold soak
Wasser.Reiben with SOAP and waschen.Eine paste from raw strength mixed with cold
Water will remove these spots to flannel blankets and heavy goods.
Repeat until the stain disappears.
Wash egg spot in cold water, then warm water and SOAP.
Have a party? weight makes A difference.
If you have a party, provide food with drinks.
Provide non-alcoholic alternative materials such as such as fruit, soft drinks.
2 Drinks taken within one hour of a person 100 pounds produces a
Drink is equal to about 1.5 ounces of whisky or 2 075 lesen.Ein
Bottles Bier.Die rate reducing for every hour after
Stopped drinking 015.Eine is 200 pound person 1 drink
produced a reading of 019 so you can see, there is a big difference
due to weight.
It is your duty to ensure that nobody leaves your party hosts
beeinträchtigt.Haben some one way.
Disclaimer: The author of this article is not responsible for the accuracy or completeness, yet he shall be liable for any damage or loss of it arising from or in any way relating to the information or use.
BPW My postcard Sorry Im late
Ill be sending this to....
Would you believe it if I told you how difficult it is to find picture post-cards in Bombay? Half the shop-keepers didnt understand what it meant, and the others looked at me as if I had gone mad !
One guy asked me if i wanted a Picture of a postcard and the other said, you are the first person who has asked me for this since Ive opened my shop. I had almost given up hope when my dad went looking around for this one, he finally got me two cards that depict Bombays important landmarks.
The other hurdle I faced was due to my own forgetfulness. I was at my moms place whole of last week ( celebrating Varalakshmi nombu and devouring kozhakattais and vadais ), i had forgotten to carry the cord that connects the cam to the laptop. Hence couldnt post a pic of my card...Boo..hooo
Meeta told me I could post it when i reached my own place. And heres it..Im sending to A...friend hahaha
Its a picture of Flora Fountain. Completed in 1864, the Flora Fountain was erected by the Agri-Horticultural society of Western India out of a donation by Cursetjee Fardoonjee Parekh. Built in imported Portland stone, but now defaced with white oil paint, it was originally meant to be named after Sir Bartle Frere, then governor of Bombay. However, the name was changed before the fountain was unveiled. It stood in the center of the town as it then was. Now this area is the heart of the business district of the town.
This is what Mumbainet has to say about this structure-
"This is the very heart of Mumbai, circumscribed by stately colonial buildings that stand like proud old sentinels of a bygone era. Flora is the Roman Goddess of Flowers, her pretty alabaster face continually assaulted by grime and pollution. Next to her are a pair of torch bearing stone patriots that rise from the Martyrs Memorial nearby. Flora Fountain is now called Hutatma Chowk or Martyrs Square to honour those who died in the tumultuous birth of Maharashtra State. All around the square sit Mumbais infamous vendors selling just about everything under the blazing tropical sun -- from cheap nylon saris and ballpoint pens to herbal remedies and sexshop gewgaws. Tooting horns and traffic complete the chaotic picture, but through it all Flora manages to retain her serene composure."
Thursday, March 27, 2014
Healthy Date and Wheat Snacks
1 tbsp Set Honey
2 tbsp Healthy Margarine
1 Heaped tsp Almond Paste
1 Teaspoon Rice Flour
3 tbs Wholewheat Flour
Tiny Pinch Cinnamon
1 More tbsp Set Honey mix
4 tbsp Wholewheat
Hand Full Dates
Splash of Water and Honey
Melted Margarine
Mix 1 tbs of honey with the margarine and cream together, add the almond nut paste and mix well. Add the rice flour and sieve in 3 tbs of wholewheat flour with a tiny pinch of Cinnamon(you will be left with some wheat bits in the sieve, keep it to the side as it is added later) then add the other tbs of honey. It should form a doughy ball.
Then add 3 heaped tbs of whole wheat flour and the wheat bits from earlier. Rub together with your hands as thought to make (short crust pastry) a crumb like texture.
Then warm a little water with a little honey and mix in the dates, then pour the whole cup into one of the mixes and make into a biscuit dough. To make the plain dough just add a little water.
Roll the date mix flat and put onto your greased tray then spread with a little melted margarine(you can sprinkle on some grated coconut at this point if you wish) then roll the plain mix and put it on top of the date mix.
Cut into whichever shape you wish and enjoy! :)