Wednesday 28 May 2008

Baked Eggs

Zlamushka is hosting a new event, which is called Tried and Tested

Her words - It is a monthly of appreciation of other blogs - an opportunity to thank your fellow bloggers for sharing their recipes by re-creating them.Starting the very first edition of T&T, I have kindly asked Cynthia of Tastes Like Home to be the first “laboratory rat”.

Most of you, I am sure are very familiar with Cynthia's blog as she have delicious dishes and photography is beautiful.She have lots of delicious recipes in her blog. Of course she have delicious recipe, she is busy with her First Cookbook.
It will be out soon. I am sure we all are waiting to have a glimpse of her book.I made this Baked Eggs from her place.

I made one for me and one for my daughter.Mine I only added one egg, but for my daughter i added two eggs.Next time I am sure going to make them with two eggs.
My daughter doesn't eat onions and tomato so for her i just addded a bit of cream and half slice of cheese.Cynthia sauteed her vegetablesI didn't (was lazy) . I added them fresh.

It is the first time I am making baked eggs and I was telling my daughter what we were going to have and she was really curious, she loved it she was even scapping her last bit.

Mine was a bit over done so i will less the time for one egg next time. I know I should have thought about it before.
So thankyou Zlamushka for the event and cynthia for the idea of baking eggs.




Monday 26 May 2008

Beans and Legumes


This is my entry

I ddin't think I will be able to send something to this months click event , the reason beeing the whole month of break I had.
While i was on the break I have been thinking what to send, so yesterday while my daughter was doing her school work I though why not take few wine glasses and fill them with different beans and legumes and take pictures.

Any thing better than doing the ironing. I hate to do ironing. For the last week it has been piling up as there is not end to the pile.............. I know i know can't put it off. I will have to start doing today (maybe)
So this is what i sending to this months which is hosted by Jai & Bee of Jugalbandi

Friday 23 May 2008

Asparagus Soup


I (we) had a wonderful time with my sister, weeks just flew while she was here. Eating, gossiping, sightseeing, shopping etc....did i say gossiping :-) actually it wa not gossiping, it was catching up with all the stories which happened to family back at home.

One would have thought after a month of all these one is fully relaxed and ready to blog, but then my daughters final exams starts in the middle of june.......so have to keep a eye on her.

While I was away I received few awards to my delight.Got a yummy Blog award from Ranji of Ranjis Kitchen Corner
Recieved the same award from Meera too of Enjoy Indian Food
Added later: Pravs of Simply Spicy gave ma also a yummy Bolg award, which I missed to mention when i wrote the post. Thankyou Pravs
Thankyou girls for this lovely award.
I have been also tagged by Divya of Easy Cooking for a Meme, which i will do in due tim :-))) Meme's are so difficult to write as I have no clue how to answer some of these ?

Also got this wonderful You make my award from Easy Crafts of Simple Indian Food-An Easy Cooking Blog Actually I should giver her this award as i always go and check her place to see what delicious food she has made.

Now lets go to the delicious soup I made :-))
The season of Aparagus is here and now at the moment they are the best, so I made this delicious soup.Here we love this soup as I only make them in this season when they are at their best and also price is low.


Mixing butter and flour


Almost done

Ingridients.
1 bunch of Asparagus
40 gm butter
40 gm flour
2 litre vegetable broth
250 ml cream
Peper and salt to taste
Parsley for garnishing.

Method:
Peel the asparagus and wash them can cut them into small chunks.
Keep the tips seperate as you can add them in the last minute.

Heat a large pan, add the butter and flour and stir for 1 or 2 minute and then add the vegetable broth a little by little and stir continusly so that no lump is there.

Add the asparagus, salt and peper and cook for 10 minutes till they are soft.Blend the soup in a mixer ( I used a hand mixer).
Pour it back into the pan and add the tips of the asparagus cook for futher few minutes and then add the cream.
Stir weel and serve garnished with the parsley.

I am sending this to Martha of An Italian in US for her event Fresh Produce of the Month. She have choosen Asparagus.