whiff whiff sip
The tight, dry buds unrolled
And the dregs were blossoms.
Seaweed down the porcelain cup.
Jasmine tea.
Phir bowla
Quoting from http://ravana.blog.co.in/
After The Endeavors
Of The Chemical Blot
You Take A Walk
To Find A Suitable Spot
To Open Up Your Stash
Lash Out At The World
Filled With Gas
…
It’s Evening Time
Ball Of Fire In The Sky
As I Walk By Graves (
To The Otherside
夏
Turn up the pleasure of vanilla ice-cream by sprinkling cinnamon powder over it.
Making Brinjal Bharta
Burn it
The fucker
Sizzles and hisses
Spewing saliva
But burning alright
Softening like ugly old age
I think this isn’t cooking
It’s therapeutic evil
It’s sweating now
Mangled beyond its fresh purple shine
And I turn it
To see that the pig is well roasted
On its butt, on its belly
It has been forked
Incisions have been made deep
So that the flames lick it from inside
I am beginning to feel sorry now
For the soggy sod
Is it done?
I have no idea
Like a first time killer
Who doesn’t know if
He should shoot again
Just to make sure.
Blink. Blink. A lil Think.
The next menu attack
Did you know these are things to eat? What's tasty and what does it mean?
Santorini
Miso
Procini mushrooms
Portobello
Veloute
Pineapple Upside Down cake
Upside down part
¼ cup butter
¼ cup dark sugar
7 pineapple slices
Melt butter and sugar in a pan to bubbling levels.
Pour into the baking dish.
Lay the pineapple slices in it.
Cake Part
½ cup butter
2/3 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 2/3 all purpose flour/ maida
1 teaspoon vanilla essence
1 tablespoon baking powder
¼ teaspoon salt
2/3 cup milk
Whisk butter, sugar, eggs together.
Add flour, baking powder, salt, vanilla essence, milk. Whisk.
Always whisk in one direction to trap air.
Pour the batter into the baking dish, over the pineapple rings.
Bake at 325 degrees F for 80 mins.
Poke a knife into the cake. If it comes out clean, it's done from inside.
Turn the cake upside down and serve.
Banana Walnut cake
After the success of the quick apple pie, here is banana cake.
3 large eggs
1 cup sugar
3/4 cup butter
2 cups all-purpose flour/ maida
1 tbsp baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
I/3 teaspoon vanilla essence
3 large bananas – chopped
1/2 cup chopped walnuts
Beat the eggs, sugar and butter in a bowl. Whisk in one direction to trap air in the mix.
Add flour, baking soda and vanilla essence. Whisk.
Add the banana and walnuts. Whisk.
Add milk if the batter is too thick. At the correct consistency the batter should pour from the spatula in folding ribbons.
Grease the baking pan. Pour the batter into it.
Put it in a preheated oven at 325 degrees F (165 degrees C). It will take about 80 mins to get baked but I would rather you trust your instincts. You can always poke a knife into the cake to see whether it’s cooked inside.
Dilli to Mexico
Today, we enjoyed a super healthy and super popular fajita lunch at office.
Tomato salsa (home-made)
Capsicum
Red n yellow bell peppers
Baby corn
Lettuce
Onion
Olives
Jalapenos
Sour cream
Grated cheese
Baked beans
Oregano and chilli flakes for seasoning
Basically, Subway sandwich ka maal, tortilla wrap mein daal.
(Corn tortilla wraps recommended over flour ones.)
Pick your ingredients. Roll/Fold and eat.
Yummy..scrummy..
All day long Tanavi and I keep turning around at office to share the thought of some tasty morsel. You can’t blame us! We are doing restaurant branding half the time.
So, here is a list of the good stuff of life. Drool baby droooll….
Cajun vegetable and rice thing on 2nd floor @ Stone Shack, Defence Colony market, New Delhi
Chiki Choco fudge found in Matheran
Kamasutra chocolates (Dunno the taste but looks really attractive)
Raw mango slices topped with spices, Chennai beach snack
Murukku (Orange crackers in greasy glass jars in roadside shops,
Pillowy tandoori roti at Karim’s, Old Delhi. It’s like a cloud to eat.
Kachi dabeli, roadside snack in Pune
Dal Baati, Rajasthan
Sarson ka saag with gud n mooli (raddish),
Will add to the list. You can add through a comment too .
So that others may not suffer
I ate the worstestestest pasta of my life and I just have to regurgitate the stuff somewhere in writing. ‘Twas at the pasta counter at the
And then I got my Paprika Cream Veg Fusilli with hard fusilli, a blob of unflavoured, unspiced cream and loads, LOADS of salt. Can you imagine a white gooey salty blob to eat with some unchewable pasta to go with it? Pure ughitty ughness…