Graduated !!

YAY !!

Finally I graduated..... I was sooooo DONE !! :) But look at the irony... I have all the time in the world to cook and post recipes n stuff like that, but I have become super lazy :( BUT soon, I will get out of this phase, I am sure of that.

So wait for the yummy recipes :)

- So

77 days later !!

Looks like a caption in a movie :) not really.... just counted the number of days since my last post. My God !! Have I been busy or lazy ?? Actually, lots of things happening in my life which makes it quite difficult to sit down and post a few things here, let alone having no time to cook :(

I have a list of recipe titles on me. I plan to finish writing the recipes and post them asap, especially for my dear friend Aashu, whom I promised some recipes. Sorry to make you wait Aashu... will definitely do it in the coming month. I am hoping to graduate soon. So, I will have loads of time after that for blogging and ofcourse for cooking :)

- So

I am BACKKKKKKKKKK !!!!!!

Hey All !!

I am back to blogging now.... I might as well, because I had to postpone my graduation by another semester. So y deprive myself of something that I love to do.... no no not blogging... I am talking about showing off my cooking skills :)

Just wanted to post some recent pics of my cooking here. Recently captioned the photos :) !!!

Mexican-Indian Medley (Onion Pakodas and Guacamole - I did not make the veggie crispy chips)

Breakfast Strata (egg-based)

Prepping for White pasta sauce

White pasta sauce cooking

Mixing cooked pasta and the creamy pasta sauce

Creamy white pasta

Pasta and garlic bread

Garlic butter used for the garlic bread (above and below)

Garlic bread (fresh out of the oven)

Not-from-scratch pasta (used canned pasta sauce)

From-scratch Lasagna (sauces were from scratch)

Cooked lasagna

Lasagna topped with extra sauce

Masala Omlet !!

Omlet with toast !!

Prepping pizza base (readymade dough)

Added toppings to pizza base

Topped with cheeses

Pizza fresh out of the oven

Vegetable sevai upma

Corn and Onion Fritters (pakodas)

Prepping breaded eggplant

Baked (healthy) breaded eggplant

Masala and plain dosas with garlic chutney and sambar

Indianized hashbrowns

Seriously do not remember the name of this sweet anymore :P

Sabudana khichdi :)

Aloo wada with spicy garlic sauce

Maddur Vada

I hope to get free enough to post the recipes soon !!

Until then...

Ciao... So

Busy Days

Sorry haven't been blogging in a while now.... I have been pretttttty busy with my thesis and research and coding and what not.... Ah !!! The woes of graduate life.

Thankfully my professor decided that I can graduate this semester. So I have been overly busy writing my thesis and completing the project, tweaking the performance.... etc., etc.,

Also the job search is not going that great. So, there it is.

However, I haven't stopped cooking. So I have a bunch of photos to put up.

Hopefully I should be back to frequent blogging soon.

'til then.....

- So

Bread / Garlic Bread Pizza

On request from my close friend, here is the recipe for garlic bread pizza or simply bread pizza....

Ingredients

Serves 2 ( 3 slices each)
Preparation Time (5 -10 mins -- depends on your vegetable cutting speed :) ) 
Cooking Time - 20 mins 

Bread / Garlic bread - 6 slices
Onions - 1 small
Tomatoes - 1 large
Capsicum - 1 medium
Red Pepper - 1 medium


Coriander leaves - few twigs (optional) (finely chopped)
Pepper powder - 1 tsp
Salt - as per taste
Chat Masala and / or Amchur powder - 1 tsp each (optional)


Mozzarella Cheese (shredded) - as per taste
(Remember that different kinds of cheese have different melting times - Mozzarella I think melts the fastest)
Butter - to apply on the bread (not needed if using garlic bread)
Aluminium Foil / Cookie Sheet (for arranging bread slices in the oven)

Method
Pre-heat the oven to 350 / 400 F. When the oven is getting heated, cut all vegetables into thin long slices. 

Prepping for garlic bread pizza

Arrange 6 buttered slices of bread onto a cookie sheet / aluminium foil. Top them with all the sliced vegetables. Sprinkle with coriander leaves and the other powdered ingredients. Sprinkle generously with cheese (for a cheese lover), else as per your taste.


Oven will be pre-heated by this time. Pop the cookie sheet / foil into the oven. Set the timer to 20 mins if the oven setting was 350 or 15 mins if it was set to 400. 

Into the oven it goes !!

Keep an eye on the bread. If the cheese starts to melt, then it signifies that the pizza is almost done. So once more than 3/4 th of the cheese has melted, then you can go ahead and switch off the oven (doesnt matter what the timer shows). Leave the bread in the oven for another 2 mins, for it to fully cook inside out.


Bread / Garlic bread pizza is now ready !!! ENJOY with tomato ketchup!!!

Yumm !!! Baked bread pizza pieces....

Yummy Days !!

Prepping for garlic bread pizza

Into the oven it goes !!

Yumm !!! Baked bread pizza pieces....

Tostones !!! Mexican - Cuban dish.... Really yummy *slurp slurp*

Egg Masala Curry.... prepared it, but never tasted it :(

Aloo Wada !!

Masala Dosa !!! *drool drool*

Sambar !!! :P

Dabeli......

Parathas..... !!

Aloo Bhajiyas -- bhajiyas and chai on a windy rainy day :P Awesome combo :)

Besan ke laddoo --- every grandmom's nightmare :P

Gobi Masala !!

Pan Polo / Neer dosa --- my ever favorite dish :D

Peas Pulao and Masala boiled eggs

SLURRRRRRRRRRRPY !!! Paneer Tikkas....

Can you ever refuse Gobi Manchurians !! ?

Kachoris !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Aaah ....

Walnut brownie --- just warm out of the oven :)