Cooking with My Baby

                     Neil my BABY is now almost 4 years old. He has some activity happening every week in school where in parents need to do, make or send something creative. His school celebrated Mother's day and had requested the moms to make and bring along a healthy snack dish for kids.... Here's what I made ....                          Creamy veggie toast is simple way of sneaking in nutrients of vegetables in smooth cheesy milky goodness full of vitamin D served on whole-wheat brown toast. It’s easy to prepare and full packed with nutrition and taste. Serves : 2 Ingredients:   8 slices brown bread   2 slices of cheese slices   250 ml whole milk   2 tbsp. whole-wheat flour   2 tbsp. olive oil   1 tbsp....

                       My mamma loves to cook recipes which she sees in television. If she likes some recipe, she is very prompt to make it immediately for dinner. She has had her quota of failures and successes. Me and my dad used to still do tease her a lot, if her recipe didnt turn out great. Poor mamma.. She's one adorable cute lady who is always smiling. She never scolded me or was angry at me EXCEPT during studies.. She was very strict when it came to education. I was a tomboy as a kid, always wanted to play, climb trees and bruise my knees. I wasn't interested in studies   but then who is. ... Mamma made sure I studied regularly and I used to read novels inside my books....Did I mention, I am completely crazy about books. I stay up late at nights till 3am just go to sleep without knowing the end of the story and if I am forced to sleep leaving my book incomplete, I...

                        During college days, it used to be very very tight schedule in the morning, getting ready and running to catch the train. If we used to miss first train it would be late for the second connecting train.If you have traveled frequently in Mumbai by local trains you will know what I am talking about. Its a big accomplishment, starting from climbing in the completely jammed packed first class compartment of fast train. cross over to the other side to get down at Kurla.. Start running on the overbridge to reach the harbor line. Catch the train to nerul.. Again run to catch the autorickshaw. Reach the college elevator to realise that there are 20 people before you in queue to board the elevator.. run across the four floors and reach the classroom...              You tell me, wont you be hungry a...

    Ahan, finally I made tarts. I have been planning to make them since so long but was always afraid of the tart pastry not being flaky and being undercooked or multiple of things that can go wrong. I was very very apprehensive of trying them. But I did it, made my first ever tarts filled with spinach and paneer. They turned out pretty good for the first attempt. The crust was nice flaky and crumbly. But I have tough time rolling out pastry in afternoon heat. So next time, evening is going to be my tart time. I remember me and Abhi sharing fruit filled tartlets in farmer's market in Sunnyvale. They were so crisp and just melted in mouths with fresh fruits topped on them. I so wanna make them, but with due respect to my ever increasing waistline, have decided to cut down fats n sugars from our diet..... So healthy food coming up..... I hope I will be able to stick to my new year's resolution atleast this year,,Getting back in shape.....          ...

Bangalore is cool and it drizzles almost every evening,,, it feels like monsoon has already arrived. And if there is something which everyone associates with monsoon in India, its garma garam pakodas.. So one such cool evening, I decided to surprise my hubby with pakodas,,, paneer pakodas,, sounds interesting, wait for the next part, stuffed paneer pakodas (stuffed cottage cheese fritters) They are adapted from cook called as pure and simple by Viddu Mittal. Its a nice simple vegetarian cook book which explains step by step procedures for normal Indian cooking, its great help for someone learning to make Indian cuisine for the first time. Ingredients: 500 gm paneer oil (for deep frying) Stuffing: 1 ½ tsp ginger paste 1 ½ tsp garlic paste 1 ½ tsp green chilli paste 3 tsp coriander paste ½ tsp chaat powder ½ tsp salt ½ tsp jeera powder Batter 1 cup besan (gram flour) ½ tsp baking powder ½ tsp salt ½ tsp chilli pow...

                        Red, Yellow and Green bell peppers along with paneer form the basis of this quick and simple entree which goes well with rice as well as roti.                      Red bell pepper is sweeter in taste as compared to green one which is little on spicier side. I have used all three kinds of bell peppers to make the dish look colorful as well as I like the taste of red bell pepper.            Its simple quick dish which looks attractive and tastes great. Its more like an Indianized version of Thai red curry.. Ingredients: 1 red capsicum 1 yellow capsicum 1 green capsicum 1 large onion 2 garlic 1 cup paneer cubes 2 tbsp oil 500 ml coconut milk 2 tsp corian...

Today is Saturday. My mind associates weekends with getting up late in morning, making & eating good food and visiting new places and pataoing my hubby to let me shop… I wanted to make something special. Opened my fridge and saw had nice ripe tomatoes, capsicum and fresh paneer. I wanted to bake something in the oven and decided to make bread with the stuff  in my pantry. Ingredients A)     For the Dough ·          1 cup warm water ·          1 tsp sugar ·          1 ½ tsp active dry yeast ·          1 tsp salt ·          2 tbsp + 1 tbsp olive oil .         1 tbsp kasoori methi    .         3 cups all purpose flour (maida)  B)     For the stuffing ·...