something fishy for a saturday ;)

i had started hating weekends and myself...yeah..weekends are boring for me... with nothing to do other than watching movie online and chatting with friends... and now a day its restricted to movies alone as my best buddy has hardly time for chatting with me...how many movies can one watch in a day??? i was really fed up...i put down my computer specs(which i forcefully wear, as i spend even my weekends on this new age smart(idiot) box) and started thinking how to spend the remaining time..with the tennis court dampened by yesterdays rain and with no one for company to venture out, i was almost imprisoned in my own apartment..a self imposed imprisonment(as i didn't lookout for an opportunity to go out), aggravated by nature..

i said to myself..if things go at this rate, i ll lose my self and my jovial nature..felt like moving to darkness...its really horrible to spend time all alone, with nothing to do which interests u. One of my good friend used to complain abt being alone and feeling bored..she used to call me whenever she was feeling bored and i used to get bugged up with her calls..me being born and brought up in a nuclear family and with my parents always busy with their work, i was used to staying alone and minding own business..so i could never understand her, who was brought in a joint family...but now i realized how bad she would have felt on being alone..

but i was not to spend time brooding over the loneliness.. i was looking out for something exciting within the limitation of the four walls..and finally this idea struck me...cooking...i decided..am going to make fish curry...i know am not that good in cooking and its just 3rd time am entering in kitchen to make something on my own..but i was cool..and confident of finishing the entire dish myself in case my roomies find it hard to taste...

i really enjoyed cooking this time..was fun and there goes my special recipe...
1. coat fish pieces with lil turmeric powder, chilli powder and salt and keep it for some time.may be 10-15 mins.
2. fry these pieces in limited oil in a non stick pan. fry only till its color changes. keep in mind that u r making fish curry n not fry.
3. after taking out fish, saute thinly sliced onion till it turns brownish, then add ginger garlic paste, green chilli and mix well.add salt to taste. Then add turmeric powder, chilli powder, and garam masala and mix it well.
4. Add tomato and heat for some time, pouring 1/4 glass water and making it a paste.
5. Add the slightly fried fish and enough water so that the fish is dipped in the masala.
6. Keep the pan closed for 5-8 mins. then keep watching till the curry becomes slightly thick. turn off the cooking range and keep it closed for sometime.



the curry turned out to be far far better than i expected. it tasted good and was aromatic.. am still waiting for my roomies to arrive and comment on it..but for me..its an awesome dish..and am happy to have done something innovative and interesting in this otherwise boring day of mine...this has really given me the confidence to try out more in kitchen..but only after my roomies testifies it..i do care for their health and taste buds.. :D

102th way to make egg curry

its been 4 weeks...and i haven't done anything other than washing plates and cooking rice...
but now one of my roomie has left and now pressure was building up..
cooking..a field which i have never ventured in...the mere thought of trying out something in kitchen gave me shivers...after all am experimenting with FOOD...and i ll be putting others also in trouble along with me....i gave a deep sigh and sat down..
i was feeling damn sleepy because of yesterdays production move...the tension was too much...
i got up, cleaned the room and then later got to bed..and now with the thought of preparing something for dinner.....i dozed off....
was a sound sleep for 2hrs...then i got up..washed my face and went to main room..all roomies were sitting in main room...i asked...what u guys want for dinner....i still don't know what made me ask that question...may be the water really didn't wash off the sleep...
roomies said...just make anything...that will do.. i went straight to fridge, took out egg and put that for boiling..
yeeks...what i have done?? egg curry?? that too my 1st cooking experiment...i should have settled for some onion curry..i looked at the guinea pigs sitting across the room...poor souls...
but now it was time for action..

i looked around...what all do i need...yeah...some onion, tomato...and there goes my recipe for egg curry..

1. Take out enough egg and boil for 15mins
2. cut a full onion into small round pieces and fry it in vegetable oil, till it turn brownish
3. slice tomato and add wen the onion is brownish enough
4. Add some salt and look out to ur shelf...make sure u put all the powders that is within an arms distance from u. I tried chilli powder, turmeric powder and masala powder.( you can add few more at ur own risk and depending on what all u can reach out to)
5. Add some water to make it a paste. once the paste is set, add more water and make it watery
6. Slice the boiled shell less egg into two and place it in a decorative manner so that it atleast looks good...
7. Put on the lid and keep it for sometime, till the water gets dried up and you get a semi gravy.

This is 102th way to make egg curry...

But to my surprise it tasted good... one of the best i ever tasted i must say..a simplified version of preapring egg curry....
so thats a proof for my culinary skill... man am good in that too...felt good..

hope to post more of Ajay's recipe's in coming weeks..