Yummy in the Tummy

2006-09-06T23:00:00.000-07:00

Culinary Mishaps (or What to do when you mess up the dinner!)

1) Too Spicy - adding cream/ghee/butter, milk/curd, lemon/vinegar helps.
Or serve yogurt/curd based salads with it.
2) Too Hot - adding salt, cream/butter, milk/curd, lemon/vinegar helps.
Or serve yogurt/curd based salads with it.
3) Too Oily - add piece of bread, a boiled potato After draining the oil with a spoon. You can even reuse the oil for some other dish. Drain with tissue paper for absorbing surface oil off fried solids.
4) Too Salty - boiled potato absorbs salt like anything.
5) Too Sour - milk will neutralise the acid. So will cheese.
A dash of sugar and salt might actually enhance the flavour.
6) Too Bitter -
7) Too Sweet - dilute with milk, water maybe a dash of lemon/salt.
8) Too watery - add thickening agents like corn starch solution, things which soak up a lot of water like Soya Chunks, wheat flour etc.
9) Burnt - Remove the burnt bits. Place baking powder in a bowl near the food. It will absorb the fumes.
10) Bland - use sauces like Worchestshire, Vinegar, Chilli (Green/Red), SoyaSauce in combination with Sambar powder, Chicken masala, Garlic/Ginger paste. Try to balance out All the tastes. Put in a pinch of sugar, a bit of lemon while not dominating they will give more variety in the taste.
11) Use the natural texture variation for keeping the experience interesting.
12) Have a backup plan - order from the restaurant or keep a pack of instant noodles handy with a bucket of ice-cream, chocolate to keep the guests feeling satiated after a "not-so-bad" meal.

2006-07-28T06:10:00.000-07:00

Delicious Macaroni
Soup packets
Cheese(spread)
Tomato Sauce.

Boil the soups with Macaroni in it.
Mix in Pudina leaves (Mint).
Add Tomato Sauce and mix in dollops of Cheese (spread).
Ultra Delicious macaroni in 15-20 minutes.

2006-06-02T05:31:00.000-07:00

A delicious Gujarati Dish :
Tomato curry with papad.
Just the normal diced tomatoes, tadka with Heeng.
Cut up Lijjat papad into thin strips and mix into the boiling curry.
The strips becomes moist and slightly chewy. Delicious, fast-to-cook and easy to eat ;-)

2006-06-02T05:30:00.000-07:00

How to make sprouts
Soak grains of different types (peas, groundnut etc) overnight.
In the morning drain and wrap in moist cloth.
In a day they'll sprout into healthy sprouts.

Lightly stir-fry sprouts Or microwave with bit of oil, salt and pepper.
This reduces the side-effect of raw-sprouts - gas.
Low calorie, delicious, healthy food.

2006-06-02T04:06:00.000-07:00

Soya (nuggets) 65:
Golden brown onion, finely chopped chillies, ginger garlic paste, soya sauce, chilli-sauce, salt.
Make corn-starch solution.
Boil soya nuggets.
Mix in the nuggets with onion etc.
Add corn starch to get a creamy, delicious, finger-lickin' sauce.
Heat for 1 minute.

Soya contains no fat and is really useful in reducing cholesterol.

2006-06-02T04:04:00.000-07:00

Sauted Sweet Corn/Mushroom
Cut mushroom into easy-to-eat pieces. Add a Spot of salted-butter.
Microwave for 3 minutes. Delicious and healthy stuff waiting to be eaten.