Wednesday, November 20, 2013

Bread square


I was in the mood to cook some lip smacking snacks for evening tea. However, I couldn’t think about anything apart from bread. Actually, I had some boiled potatoes in fridge, and I wanted to use them in the evening snacks. First I was hesitating to use bread in deep fry, because of oil. Then for a moment I just forgot about “health”, and went to cooking bread square. The bread squares turned out extremely delicious.


Friday, November 15, 2013

The magic of Halloween



Visit to pumpkin patch

The pumpkin patch is a field where pumpkins are grown and sold during the fall for decoration.
Since long my son had been constantly asking his father to take him to pumpkin patch. He wanted to buy a pumpkin. However, his time didn’t permit his father to do the same. Anyway, at last he got the chance to visit the pumpkin patch with his classmates. It was a great fun. We visited there and took a pumpkin from there; it was a part of the field trip. All children got a pumpkin each. The next day they did some math with those pumpkins. The pumpkin my son picked up weighed 6 lb. 



Wednesday, November 13, 2013

Pasta with mushroom gravy




Ingredients for pasta

Two cup pasta according to your choice (I used shell pasta)

One tsp. of dried oregano

One tsp. dried cilantro

Two-three cloves of garlicOne small tomatoOne cup shredded cheese (mozzarella or cheddar)

Two tbsp. of oil

Salt to taste

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Monday, November 11, 2013

Basil pasta and meat ball gravy



Off late I wanted make some variation in cooking pasta. Usually I cook pasta in very simple way. Yet I to do any experiment with pasta. I usually cook with typical tomato-pasta sauce. However, everybody at home was already bored with that kind of pasta. Anyway, few days back I wanted to cook pasta for dinner. I thought that after coming back from market I would cook. 


Tuesday, November 5, 2013

Stuffed baked tomatoes

Long back I cooked this very dish. However, I forgot the recipe. Few days back I was going through my recipe smash book and found the recipe there. I got this recipe from newspaper. It is very easy to cook, yet it is very tasty.  


Two large tomatoes
One cup small curd cottage cheese
Half cup finely chopped fresh basil, spinach or arugula (I used spinach)
Two crushed garlic cloves
Half grated Parmesan cheese
Preheat the oven to 400 degree F. Cut tomatoes in half horizontally. Combine remaining ingredients; stir gently. Divide among four tomatoes. Bake for fifteen minutes or until hot and brown. 

 

P.S. I carved out the seeds from each of the halves, and put the stuffing.