Recipes..

Tamarind Based Seer Fish Curry

Ingredients

1. Tamarind Pulp (of a lemon size ball)
2. Cumin seeds (2 tsp)
3. Fenugreek seeds (1/4 tsp)
4. Black pepper (4-5 corns)
5. Coriander seeds (1 tsp)
6. Red Chill (3)
7. Curry Leaves
8. Green Chilli (2)
9. Big onions (2)
10. Small onions (10)
11. Garlic pods (4)
12. Tomatoes (2)
13. Seer fish 200g

Preparation

• Grind small onions and garlic pods into a smooth paste
• Grind ingredients in red into a dry powder
• Fry fish pieces in little oil for 2-3 mins on each side and keep aside
• Heat oil, add mustard and cumin
• After mustard splutters, add chopped big onions along with chopped green chillies and curry leaves
• After onion becomes translucent, add onion+garlic paste
• Once the paste gets fried, add chopped tomatoes
• After tomatoes cook well add tamarind pulp and dry powder
• Bring to boil and add semi-fried fish pieces
• Add salt and let the curry cook till fish pieces get completely cooked and raw smell of ingredients vanish

Cauliflower Curry

Ingredients

1. Cumin Seeds
2. Coriander Seeds
3. Sompf
4. Cloves
5. Cinnamon (Pattai)
6. Cardamom
7. Coconut grated (1 cup)
8. Cauliflower pieces (cleaned in salt water and semi-fried in oil)
9. Tomatoes (2)
10. Water (2 cups)

Preparation

• Roast and Grind all the ingredients in red along with grated coconut
• Add fried cauliflowers, ground masala and chopped tomatoes into a pan along with water
• Cook till done

Places

the list of places I've traversed in the past...

Books

List of books I've parsed..

In Progress..
"The World is Flat" by Thomas L. FriedMan
an eye-opener - so far..

Paulo coelho's
The devil and miss prym (Just finished...)
Now that I've completed reading two of his works, I realise that Paulo Coelho himself is not my kinda person. I generally don't judge an author taking one or two of his works into consideration; so after "The Alchemist", I decided to pick Paulo's second popular book "The Devil and Miss Prym". By the time I was half way through, I could see a clear pattern among his books. He picks a simple story-line and does complex analysis on it. If the reader is someone who likes to personify (him/her)self in the protagonist's position and actually live through the story, then this book will have some life-enhancing effects on the reader. But for ppl like me, who think of books as exposure to out-side world and not as self-improvement aid, this book would be very much like a english non-detail story with a moral.

The alchemist

This one is not really my kind of book. In certain ways it did spell out some of my desires. I felt happy to find someone live my kind of desires; but the crux of the story is very much based on the infamous belief that we are all just puppets in the hands of almighty - i personally don't believe in this. I'm not an atheist neither a believer in fate or destiny. The plot, which revolves around the protagonist following his dream, is definitely a happy-ending one, because the boy was destined to see his dreams come true. Had the boy been destined to be a loser he would have been one irrespective what he did and didn't. After reading the climax, for few moments I was excited with the feeling that i too will be able to give shape to my dreams if I sincerely followed them, but then it crossed my mind, if the author was penning my fate then I should definitely ask myself a question - "what if I was not destined to?"..

Non-fictions
iCon - Steve Jobs' bio

Robert Ludlum's
The Scarlatti Inheritance
The Bourne Identity
The Bourne Supremacy
The Road to Omaha (Most favorite.. Reading for forth time)
The Apocalypse Watch

Alistair McLean's
The Guns of Navarone
South by Java Head
Fear is the Key
The Dark Crusader
The Golden Rendezvous
Ice Station Zebra
When Eight Bells Toll
Where Eagles Dare
Force 10 From Navarone
Puppet on a Chain
Bear Island
The Way to Dusty Death
Breakheart Pass
Circus
The Golden Gate
Seawitch
Athabasca
River of Death
Floodgate

Michael Crichton's
Jurassic Park
Lost World
The Andromeda strain

Robin Cook's
Coma
Brain
Fever
Godplayer
Outbreak
Mortal Fear
Mutation
Harmful Intent
Fatal Cure
Contagion
Chromosome 6
Invasion
Toxin
Vector
Abduction
Seizure

Miscellaneous.. Nancy drews, Perry masons, Homes, PG wodehouse, Daniel steel..