pasta 1

this is one kind of pasta.. lots more to come

ingredients:
macroni
tomato ketchup/ tomato puree
beans
capsicum
carrots.
salt to taste
oregano seasoning
cheese to garnish and serve
cornstarch with milk

method:
cook the macaroni and drain the water and cool.
chop all the vegetables of same size, and dip them in hot boiling water for two minutes.
in a pan, with little oil, add the tomato puree/ketchup and cook it with the vegetables. but make sure the vegetables are crisp.
add the macaroni and salt and saute together.
now add the cornstarch saute till corn starch cooks
serve with oregano seasoning and cheese

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salad 1

this is a little rich salad. richness is due to the dressing.
ingredients:
chopped olives 15gms
chopped cabbage 15gms
chopped onions 15gms
chopped tomatoes 15 gms
chopped babycorn15 gms
cubed panner 15 gms
shredded cheese to garnish
mayonnaise as dressing (you can also use eggless mayonnaise)
salt to taste
method:
microwave the babycorn and capsicum together. you can microwave it with some chilly powder if u like.
mix them all and garnish with shredded cheese and serve


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snack

this is one of my favorite, rich yet not too rich snack.

lays/pringles chips 1 packet or as many as u want.
mayonnaise/tartare dip
cheese-shredded
chopped vegetables including three capsicum, onion, tomato, olives.

method:
arrange the chips on the serving plate.
coat them with mayonnaise
add the vegetables
garnish with cheese


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commercial tomato soup

this is the way to make tomato soup on a commercial scale. either for guests or for parties.
this has very less pulp and not suitable if you are trying this as a remedy for health purpose.
to make about 5 cups of soup,
ingredients:
tomato puree 5 tbsps
cornflour 1 tbsp
red chilli powder 1/2 tsp
butter-1/2 tsp
salt to taste
bread crumbs/ cream/ shredded cheese and coriander for garnishing

method:
in a pan, add one small portion of the little butter and add the chilli powder. now add the tomato puree and cook for a few minutes. now add about 350ml of water and cook. now mix the cornflour in a small cup of water and add this cornstarch to the mixture. cook for a minute with salt to taste.
while serving, serve with bread crumbs/cream/shredded cheese and coriander
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besan ka laddoo

this is dedicated to hariniand shrimathy akka and many more who have liked the besan ka laddoo that i make. this is one of my favourite desserts. there are tow ways of making it one is the traditional the other is my way. my way is the one where i use 1/4th the ghee used in the traditional version of the laddoo.
to make about 12 laddoos, you will need:
150 gms besan.
4 tbsps ghee
50gms sugar
almonds and cashew to garnish

procedure:
in a hot frying pan roast the besan till it gives out its unique aroma. it ll be almost golden colour by then. this will take about 5 minutes if cooked on high. now mix it with ghee and half the chopped dry fruits. remove from flame and add the crystal sugar. in this dessert, you should not use powdered sugar. the crystal sugar gives a crunchy taste. now shape them into balls and serve with the rest of the dry fruits or with foil. if u find the ghee too less to bring these to shape, add some melted ghee to shape them.

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KALYAANA SAPADU-The wedding feast

I had once been to a wedding where there were different counters for different cuisines. This is a common thing in the present generation though. There were men sitting at wearing turbans at the chat counter serving chat. Believe me, invariably in all the weddings, the pani puri is a sure flop. But in this reception, the caterer had appointed servers of all the counters with the dresses that match the cuisine they served, for the Chinese section, there were people with chingy eyes. And all the counters had a lavish background setup. The whole ambience was an impressive waste of money. Why do I say this? Because there were barely 200 people to attend the reception.
My mom had once read out an article from mangayar malar,a tamil magazine that in some wedding apparently there was a “PAPPU MAMMU STALL” that served food for infants and kids. I then happened to attend another wedding where they had a stall serving popcorns and cotton candies and stuff like that for toddlers and kids. I then happened to encounter a hot discussion among the elders with my mother also participating in it, and it kindled in me a silly, weird and whacky idea.
This discussion happened in my cousin’s wedding where the elders were discussing about their pre and post lunch medicines, and sharing some with the people who dint carry theirs’. Their talk included their reasons for starting to have those medicines, and how their health gets affected on having a wedding feast. Each of them had separate medicines of different potencies for different problems. This sure didn’t impress me. Because whenever elders gather, they keep talking about supplements, or medicines or restrictions.
After this discussion, is when I began to think of a new stall. I was first thinking of a new display beside the salad –platter section. And then I thought of a stall with a doctor wearing a lab coat, giving away medicines. (Got to get professional in this counter you see.)like how the pappu mammu stall impressed the kids, the doctor stall would impress these elders, by giving away medicines for BP, diabetes, allergy, cholesterol, so that you don’t actually start supplying oil in retail for what would have accumulated in the “feast”.
Believe me; this thing will surely come sometime soon. In someone’s wedding or the other. I will definitely not have this kind of pomp in my wedding which is a really long way to go from now.
All certain done, none of the caterers care to cook well using les oil, ghee, unnecessary added flavors /colors. We were having breakfast together in my cousin’s wedding before the muhurtham, and the guy served us something after idlis. It was hot, oily, and looked exactly like molaga podi (a condiment had mixed in oil with idlis.) wondering what it was, suspiciously I tasted it singly. It was not oil, but was ghee; not molaga podi, but almond halwa!!!! The guy had added red-orange colour to it that made it look exactly like molaga podi. After everyone had ruined their taste buds of having idli with halwa, another man comes serving the actual molaga podi.
It counts on how you serve food. My mom always tells me that serving is an art.

WHAT I AM MADE OF

A ridlle, a puzzle, a waste of time is what people feel when they've got to know about themselves. but when it comes to me its a billion dollar discussion
An ordinary teenager with extra ordinary thinking. And an immense love for the way i am. i am a mixed bag.
i am a biotechnology student, a fun lover, an artist, a chef, and an immense lover of snow, rain, mountains, nature, thrills, adventures and traveling.
i play quite a few games, sing well, play the veena, dance, and drive the car at high speed.
i love to cook, , eat desserts, surf the net, write down the thoughts in my head, make friends and make people laugh with the good sense of humor that i have. i often change the interiors of my room. and i make my decisions about these things when i am in class. (). i m not bad in drilling holes in the wall using a drilling machine to hang photo frames. and yeah, i love making collages and have a good flair and interest in photography, and gardening. i like learning new languages. i presently know hindi, telugu, english (obviously), tamil, french and german. i m a half boiled when it comes to marathi, gujrati, bengali, malyalam and konkani.
besides living a fun filled life like this i also spend some time in serious occult science. i am a clairvoyant, a tarot card reader, and a Reiki master. i ve done research on many occult things. i am also a practitioner of Silva, and Mana force. i also do crystal healing.
besides this, i am a stubburn girl. and do things that i like, and like the things i am made to do. so i call my life to be great!
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