A Palace of Illusions - Book Review

My understanding of Mahabaratha was quite different UNTIL I read this book. Of course I liked Arjuna, the born warrior for  his charming nature and Karna for his loyalty. Then I started this book. Page 5, and I already know its time to forget all the straightforward telling of this epic and get to know the untold, forgotten, crumbled perspectives of the unsung heroes. No wonder Divakurani’s re-telling paints the characters more human than they are and makes you run the  scenes on ...

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Garlic butter rice and Lemon chicken

Recently, I have been drooling and dreaming about all those butter recipes I surf online. I blame the harmones :P I was checking out garlic bread and guess what popped out? Why not try something similar with rice? And here is the delicious result! :) Garlic butter rice  Ingredients: (Serves 1, cook time - 15 minutes) Garlic - chopped 1 1/2 tablespoon Salted butter - 1 tablespoon Scallions/ Spring Onion leaves - 1 tablespoon chopped Chicken broth - 400 ml OR Maggi Chicken broth powder - ...

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Tangy Chicken Curry

What makes you more happy than a perfectly cooked dish? Well, mostly there isn’t any but at times repairing a messed up dish and finally getting an awesome new dish out of it! Especially when you want to get the best of two recipes and end up with a kitchen disaster at 2 PM, all you are left with is the option to resurrect the leftover. But all those who wander are not lost right? :) I wanted to try Punjabi  dhabba style chicken curry but didn’t like the tomatoes in the recipe so ...

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South Indian Rasam (The one served at weddings)

That’s one weird title I agree 😄! Hey but guess who loves slurping the rasam at south Indian weddings? Me! I am that person who skips sambar to directly have rasam. No wonder I tried learning what magic spices do thay add that it tastes this heavenly!! After a hell lot of surfing multiple cookery books and websites I finally came across that secret recipe from Anitha Pushpavanam Kuppuswamy’s youtube video. Believe me, that was it! I tried it right away and to my surprise it came out extraordinarily ...

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Chicken Pasta

This recipe actually goes in four parts -  the chicken stock, the pasta, the vegetables and the white sauce. We'll go one by one. Following recipe serves 2. 1st part - Chicken Stock Ingredients: Chicken breasts - 150 gm Carrot - 1 (Peeled and sliced) Garlic - 12 cloves chopped Maggi Chicken stock powder - 1 cube Water - 750 ml Heat a pressure cooker and let the water boil. Add the chicken breasts pieces, Maggi stock powder, garlic, carrot and pressure cook it for 10 minutes. Once the ...

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Crab Masala

I generally don't touch crabs and manage from cleaning to cooking with a serving tong. Reason? Its the moving limbs that freak me out :P But I don't mind eating it later. Reason again? Food or fear - food forever :P Ingredients  Crab - 1 Kg Pearl Onions - 15 Pepper - 10 to 15 corns Turmeric - 1 teaspoon Salt - to taste Green chilly - 4 to 5 Cumin seeds - 1 tablespoon Garlic - 10 cloves Ginger - 1 inch peeled Gingelly oil - 4 table spoon Clean the crabs and cut into half so that the flesh ...

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Rosa's Pizza

On Jan 2016, we waited on a pizza shop's corridor in Philadelphia to escape the spine chilling wind. Thanks to the guy who went in before us, the aroma urged to me to peep through the half open glassdoor. The first thing that got my attention is the color blocks on the wall. I ll never remember the color of the walls but not the smiles in the vibrant sticky notes. At least, thats how I recall Rosa’s Pizza. (http://www.rosasfreshpizza.com/). Their one dollar pizza slices are highly ...

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