Sunday, August 28, 2011

The Soup Is Out!

Hi Culinary-Enthusiasts!

I once quipped, "A Beggar and A Person with no kitchen in possession have one thing in common: They both don't know where their next meal is coming from!". It made me infamous among many but that is O.K. One had to say it anyway!!

My attitude towards cooking is inclined towards, efficiency, innovation, nutrition and adequacy! My motto is not to compromise nutrition just for the looks and maintain logic in all aspects of cooking.

As promised to myself, I let myself take a leap into the world of Soups! I painted it Red! With Tomatoes!

Here is how I did it! But first, let me tell you, if you want to enter the world of Soups and you are also entangled in the Office-Home Cycle, then planning is one of the key aspects of it! Without planning one may drop out of it with the same speed, one leaped into it!

Ingredients:

Red Ripe Tomatoes -- 1 kg.
Garlic -- 8 pieces.
Ginger -- 20 gm.
Onion -- 1 large sized.
Green Chillies -- 4 long and strong ones.
Bread Rusks -- 2 pieces.

Method:

1. While slicing the tomatoes into small pieces, stir-fry the chopped ginger, garlic, onions and green chillies in a non-stick pan until golden brown colour.
2. Add the sliced tomatoes into the pan and mix well and heat it for 5 minutes.
3. Transfer the contents into a bowl and pressure cook until 5 whistles.
4. Strain the cooked content with a cotton cloth and preserve the remnants to use it as an additive for future cooking.
5. Add Salt to the strained liquid and heat it to a boil.
6. Serve it to yourself with a bit of black-pepper power and pieces of broken rusks on the top! Store the rest in refrigeration for future use!

I enjoyed a lot while sipping the soup out of the Soup-spoon and inhaling the vapours through the nostrils. I felt a new vigour and heat in the body!! I am gonna love it in the coming days! Now every day would be a celebration!!

Saturday, August 27, 2011

The Soup Coup!

Hi Cooks-out-there,

Usually I follow a 3-item cycle for the Breakfast(BF) comprising of French-toast coupled with Filter-coffee, Corn-flakes with Milk and then the swift and swirly Whole-Wheat-Noodles!! And what can I say I was happy in this cyclic affair, Until....

Whenever we used to go for a celebration in a fancy restaurant, everybody orders for some sort of Soup, for veggies it would be a tomato, spinach or a sweet corn soup and for the non-veggies it would be a kind of mutton or chicken soup. So Soups were a part of the celebrations, Until...

One fine day, while having my favourite and copyrighted Filter Coffee, one innovative idea electrified my mind! What about celebrating each day? What if Soups are created out of my crafty hands and in the pious platform of my Kitchen? I could not sleep that night!

I decided to do something about it! Did I do? Watch out for another blog article!!

Happy Cooking!! Today is Saturday!! A Holiday!! What are you cooking today?