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Wednesday, January 27, 2016
Simple potato curry
Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Baked chicken with vegetables
Two skinless boneless chicken halves
Two carrots (I used few baby carrots)
Five-six button mushrooms
Five-six cloves of garlic
One tomato
One fourth tsp. of dried oregano
Half tsp. of dried basil
Salt to taste
One tbsp. of olive oil
One-two cup salted hot water( if needed )
Shredded cheese
Cut the chicken breast into medium sized cubes. Thickly slice the carrots. If you are using baby carrots, then no need to do anything. Thickly slice the mushrooms. Peel the cloves. Cut the tomato into halves. Take an oven proof dish. Put everything in the dish. Mix well, and marinate for an hour. Preheat the oven at 350 degree F. Cover the dish with aluminum foil, and bake for half an hour. Take out the dish from oven, and check the tenderness of the chicken pieces. Don’t forget to use oven mittens. If the chicken pieces are not tender , then bake for another 10-15 minutes, and check again. Bake until the chicken pieces until tender, check every 10 minutes.
Take the dish our from the oven. Take out the chicken pieces using tong. Divide the pieces into two plate.
Pour everything else in a mixer, and make a paste. If the paste is thick, then and one-fourth cup of hot one at a time and mix well until the soup reaches a desired consistency. Divide the soup into two bowls. Sprinkle cheese on the top. Serve hot along with baked chicken.
Friday, January 22, 2016
Green pasta
My son wanted to eat spaghetti for dinner one night. When I opened my refrigerator, I found out that I didn't have any tomato, or any garlic in my storage. However, I had a bagful of spinach. So, I decided to use the spinach instead of tomato. It was just an experiment, but the dish turned out delicious.
Here is the recipe:
One bag spinach (Which will be approximate two cups of boiled spinach)
One tsp. garlic powder
One green capsicum
Dry Spaghetti for three
One-fourth tsp. dried oregano
One-fourth tsp. dried basil
One-fourth tsp. dried cilantro
Salt to taste
One tbsp. olive oil
Boil Spinach with little salt in a heavy bottomed wok covering. If you need, add a little water. Make a paste of the boiled spinach with garlic powder.Don’t add too much water, otherwise the paste will be runny. Cut the capsicum into small slices, discarding the seed part. Boiled the spaghetti, according to the instruction, written on the package.
Heat oil in a frying pan on medium. Add basil, oregano, and cilantro in oil. When fine aroma starts coming, add the capsicum slices, and fry for few minutes. Add little bit salt into the capsicum. Cook capsicum for few minutes, until a little bit tender , but crunchy. Add the spinach paste, and mix well. When the spinach start spluttering, add the boiled spaghetti, and mix very well. Serve hot.
Sunday, January 10, 2016
Cumin flavored chicken with sticky rice, and broccoli
Three skinless, boneless chicken breast halves
Two big carrot
Handful of mushrooms
One big onion
Two tsp garlic powder
One small tomato
One broccoli head
Two tsp cumin powder
One tbsp dark soy sauce
One tbsp oil
Salt to taste
One and half cup of water
One tsp lime zest (outer skin)
One cup brown rice
Three to four cups water to boil chicken
Wednesday, January 6, 2016
Last week of Holidays, 2015
Last week of Holidays were just flew by. Surprisingly, this was the first time I didn’t start missing the sweet lazy yearend Holidays. The very next morning, after come back from Los Angeles, for a moment I felt a little sadness as the holidays were soon to be over.
Time always slips from hands, no matter how you are, how you are feeling, whether you are happy or sad. Time never has the “time” to think of that. It is always flowing like a river. It never feels to stop and look back for a wink. It never left you fully satisfied, rather always makes you think about the future time. It gives you hope. It heals your wound. It teaches you to think in new ways.Time did the same thing to me also. By the end of the Holidays, I was really done with it. I started eagerly waiting for the old everyday routine. When on the last day , my husband told me that, how sad he was as the holidays were going to be over. I told that my feelings was the just opposite.
Anyway, the very next day after our LA trip, almost all the day we ran errands. Then we went hiking on 30th. Though, it was cold,foggy, and drizzly, but nothing could do hold us back. We were over enthusiast to go hiking. After hiking, all of were so hungry that we couldn’t think of going home, and having lunch. Actually, everyone was hungry for biryani. The smart phone helped us to find an Indian restaurant, where we could satisfy our tongue and stomach as well. It was all we did on 30th.
Clouds cover the top of the mountain |
Monday, January 4, 2016
Lima bean soup and Chicken sandwich
Three chicken leg pieces (or equivalent boneless chicken)
One big fat carrot
One small onionOne big tomato
Three-four cloves of garlic (or two taps garlic powder)
Pinch of garlic powder
Extra virgin olive oil
One fourth cup black eyed beans
One fourth cup Lima beans
Salt to taste
Half green bell pepper
One small onion
Six slices of sandwich breadGrated cheese(I used mozzarella cheese)
Butter to coat on bread slices
Freshly ground black pepper
Seattle trip
The hassles started as soon as we reached the Sea Tac airport. We reached at 9:00 in the night, after waiting few minutes we got the shuttle bus to the car rental office. The car was booked prior to our journey. So, we thought that, we would get the car very soon. The queue was huge, and only two persons were at the customer service desk. We had been waiting almost an hour when my husband realized that, there should be different queue for those, who already booked their cars, and he was right. He asked me to find out, and when I went downstairs, and I found he was true. Anyway, when we got our car it was 10:30 at night, and our stomachs were rumbling. However, as soon as we started our journey towards the hotel, we lost the road. The road we took ,led us to the car rental office again. We were very confused, and the GPS was also telling something beyond our understanding. Luckily , one person, who was working on the road, told us the route. It was high time to put something in our stomach.
Friday, January 1, 2016
Joaquin Miller Park hiking
Happy new year !!!
First job after waking up in the morning in the winter is to check the outside temperature. Every morning in this winter I see the snow clad rooftop of every house. Every morning I check whether three is frost or not. The pervious night Mr.Man told about going hiking next day late morning. When I saw the temperature at 8 o’clock in morning which showed 32 degree Fahrenheit.
At 8 o'clock in the morning |