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Tips of Creative cooking

2012-02-27T03:52:00.000+05:30

What inspires you to be creative in your kitchen?

There are many reasons why we hate going in the kitchen to cook dinner or even to prepare a snack. Here are five tips to get you on your way to being creative in the kitchen!
1. Clean Kitchen: This is the most important thing to remember. Having a clean kitchen will motivate you to actually want to cook.

2. The Decorative Kitchen: Adding some personality to your kitchen space really can effect how creative and inspired you are in the kitchen. This can be done inexpensively with magazine tear-outs, tea towels, decorative aprons, and so on. You will also want to stock your kitchen with creative and pretty cookbooks. Also, disguising all of your kitchen cleaning products such as sponges and dish detergent by using decorative bottles & containers can make the tasks of cleaning a bit more pleasurable.

3. The Refrigerator: When you go to cook, there is nothing worse than having to dig around plastic zip-lock bags and tons of tupper-ware to find all of your ingredients. Don’t forget that making the inside of your fridge pretty is just as important as making your entire kitchen pleasing to the eye.

4. Fresh & New Ingredients: We all have our basic items that we need to pick up from the market, but try buying just a few items if you can that has a packaging design that you love. Something that makes you feel special, such as: specialty teas in pretty tin cans, unique bottles soda or fresh juice. Also, make sure that your ingredients are fresh and beautiful!

5. Tools That Works: Last but most definitely not least, make sure you invest in quality kitchen utensils, cookware, bakeware, and storage containers. In the long run it will save you a lot more money if you buy quality first! Good tools will result in good food, and that alone will motivate you to want to experiment more in the kitchen!

Sev Tamatar ki Sabji

2011-09-30T19:26:00.000+05:30

A sabji when no sabji is at home :)
This sabji is the one when you can prepare when u dont have any vegetable in house . You need to have just onion and tomatoes for the vegetables

Ingredients:
Onions 1 Tomatoes(big) 2
Mustard 1/2 tea spn
Cumin seeds(jeera) 1/2 tea spn
Chilli powder 1 tea spn
Turmeric a pinch
Curry leaves 3-4
Jaggery 1 tbl spn
Oil 1 tea spn
Sev
Salt

Method:
Cut onions in length wise Cut the tomatoes into cubes (not very small). Heat oil and make add mustard, jeera. When they start popping, add curry leaves. Add the tomatoes, chilli powder and turmeric powder. Add 3/4 cup water and jaggery . Cook till the tomatoes become tender.
Add sev and serve immediately. (Just mix the sev at the time of serving else it will loose its crispiness).
For variations use different namkeen/sev in it every time .. for me laung sev tastes amazing in this sabji ... try it out

Serves : 2
Preparation time : 10 mins

Banana raita

2011-08-31T12:46:00.000+05:30

This could be a fast recipe used to eat in the fast time , Take a look

List of ingredients: Red chilies, turmeric, cumin seeds, mustard seeds .rock salt, milk, curd, fruits, nuts and vegetables except onion and garlic

Banana Raita For Vasant Navratri -

Ingredients:
1. 1 cup thick curds (or yogurt)
2. 2 ripe bananas (mashed and soaked in lemon juice)
3. 1 tsp roasted peanuts (optional)
4. 2 tbsp roasted almonds or cashews (chopped)
5. 1 green chili (chopped)
6. Salt according to taste
7. 1 tsp oil

Spices -
1. ½ tsp mustard seeds
2. Pinch of chilli powder
3. ½ tsp garam masala /chat masala (miss this one in case of fast)
4. ½ tsp cumin seeds

Garnish -
1. coriander leaves (chopped)

Banana Raita Preparation:

1. In a bowl, add all the above ingredients (except oil, spices and garnish) and mix well.
2. Garnish with chopped coriander leaves and sprinkle chili powder, garam masala.
3. Season with fried mustard seeds and cumin seeds. Tasty banana raita is ready
Enjoy the tasty banana raita with hot rotis and ghee.

Pudina dahi ki chatni

2011-08-07T01:09:00.002+05:30

In the world loaded with cooking blog Iam trying by bit to lighten the weight by making some lazy dishes to add flavor to mundane life for especially those who are staying/cooking alone and don't cook as a hobby but like to eat good/healthy food.

Green Mint Leaves(chopped )- 50 Gm
Green Coriander (chopped)-50 Gm
Curd Whisked -70 Gm/ or take Some branded fresh curd
Green Chilli 4-5
ginger garlic paste 1 tea spoon
Lemon juice 10 ml
Sugar ,Salt, Black Salt

Tip 1: To make it quick just wash the leaves well and break them into possible small pieces and rest let the blender do if you want to maintain ur laziness.
Tip 2 : To make it usable in fast use salt used in fast and ginger garlic need to be absent in chatni.

Put all the ingredients except yogurt in a mixi/blender add chilled water and make a thick grinded paste . Add curd to it after taking it out
Time taken is 2 Minutes
How to have it : Roti/Bread / Nan / Steamed rice/Any starter infact u can have it with frames too/Fresh Indian Cucumber salled ... Ok now i have already told you how to be lazy with this one hope you will like trying it out some time.
Till then have a tangy time out.
Best Wishes from lazy cooker ~ Kriti

Banana Sandwich

2011-07-11T01:19:00.000+05:30

This is a great lunch sandwich or a healthy rich morning breakfast that tastes even better with a glass of milk or soy milk.

Prep time: 5 minutes maximum with all garnishing etc

Ingredients:

· 2 slices whole-wheat bread

· ¼ or 1/2 banana, sliced neatly or mashed

· 2 tbsp. peanut butter

· 2 tbsp. cereal (natural wheat and barley cereal flakes)

Now what to do:

1. Spread peanut butter one side of each slice of bread.

2. Spread banana pieces on the peanut butter on one slice of bread.

3. On the other slice of bread, sprinkle cereal so that it sticks to the peanut butter and covers the bread.

4. Place the slices together

5. a) Put in a sandwich maker

b) You can use already toasted bread (on toaster/ pan)

c) You may even like to fry it ( I some how dont prefer this idea)

d) feeling lazy dont even toast it just press it

6. Cut diagonally & serve

7. Now what eat it and share the reviews

Variance TIP:

If you dont have peanut butter or dont want to use it then dont miss toasting the bread

to add on then u can add honey to it to add taste

try adding chocolate sos to it

try using different breads with it

Health Factor : This is rich in banana carbs , peanut butter - protein,
Most important than all its stomach filling works when THE daily cooker (wife/mom/cook) is not with you :)

Guava Salsa

2011-05-30T21:32:00.001+05:30

Hey since this blog is dedicated to lazy recopies so here is the first one even faster than 1 minute so here it goes for u U can even make it in Hostel to add taste to the boring food of hostel

Guava Salsa

Ingredients

· 1 Small Onion finely chopped

· 1 or ½ Guava peeled and or Semi ripe mango finely chopped

· Black salt

· Salt

· Red Chili powder

· Mint leaves (2-4 leaves)

· Tamarind paste ( ½ tea spoon )

· Guava juice ( ½ cup or 3-4 table spoon)

Process

· Take Guava Juice and mix it with tamarind paste well

· Add salt + black salt + red chili powder

· Add the finely chopped onion and guava / ripe mango

· Mix well

· Add mint leaves for fragrance and taste and garnishing

· In case you feel it’s too liquid to serve then put in mixi /mixer it will be a thick paste

Preparation time 1 minute

Now you can have it with Chapati / Paratha / Bread /Chips

Taste : Sweet Sour salty ripe and spicy all in one quick to make and added taste .It is one of the least hassled chatni/salsa

A Quick Q/A session on My cooking skills :)

2011-05-18T16:49:00.003+05:30

Hi All Welcome to my new start up
Well yes as the the name suggests its all about cooking now a question might arise in your head what the hell is the need to have it when the net is over flooded with a cooking blog .
Some things you should know about me cooking and blogs

FOODIE/ YOU:> Now the question is are u a good cook ?

COOKER/ ME:> My straight forward answer will be NO . NO iam not at all a good cook.

A simple question then

FOODIE/ YOU:> Do you know cooking at all $%^*#@ ?

COOKER/ ME:> Yes i do know cooking :)

FOODIE/ YOU:> R U a safe cook? (Million $ Question)

COOKER/ ME:> Yes by all means iam a safe cook. Yes all people who ate dishes i made are still alive and healthy. No one died of my cooking yet. But yes once in 5th class i tried gulab jamuns a sweet dish and my beloved brother has left eating gulabjamun for next 10 years .Iam glad he resumed back to it now :)

FOODIE/ YOU:> Do U cook Tasty things ?

COOKER/ ME:> Hmm thats a tricky question because like beauty the taste is also matter of subject . I mean it totally depends on you.

FOODIE/ YOU:> Do U do disasters ?

COOKER/ ME:> Yes I do and thats why if you are not expert you should read my blog because i learnt through experiments and experts both. And i intend to share them as well as some times its better to learn from others mistake ;)

FOODIE/ YOU:> Do we have to read only what KRITI u can cook ?

COOKER/ ME:> No i dont intend to bore you with all what i can cook but also about the good food available in different area as well and basically all about the food and since i keep travelling i come across different joints of all types .But if u want things tasted by me those will be Vegetarian only ...Or to be precise Caketerian (Becoz i take egg in cake and cookies)

FOODIE/ YOU:> Ok leave all that whats the story behind the name ? Why are you cooker ?

COOKER/ ME:> One who cooks is cooker ;) well cooker never sees what goes inside it it just cooks and its creative cooker because it has my imprints in it.

To add on there was a time when I have cooked almost every veg dish in electric rice cooker except Puri/roti or those things needed to be fried .

So cooker is there to tell you about the survival cooking

Welcome to the creative cooker Land :)