Bread Channa

This one goes to Sunshinemom's FIC Brown event.

Ingredients:
Channa-3/4 cup
Onion chopped-2 cups
Tomato-4 small
Jeera-1 tsp
Oil-2 tbsp
Ginger Garlic paste-1 tsp
Salt
Coriander leaves-a handful
Bread-3-4 slices

Spice powders(you can vary the measurement according to your taste):
Channa masala-2 tsp
Turmeric powder-1/2 tsp
Red chilli powder-as per taste
Badshah kitchen king masala-1/2 tsp(optional)

Method:
Soak channa overnight and pressure cook(5 to 6 whistles) until it is cooked. Drain the water and set aside.
Heat oil in a pan, tamper with jeera. Fry onions and ginger garlic paste till the raw smell goes and onions turn brown. Sprinkling little salt to onions makes them cook faster.
Add chopped tomatoes, spice powders, salt and fry till tomatoes are cooked. If the gravy is too dry, add water and simmer for 30 minutes. Add cooked channa and boil on medium heat for another 5 to 8 minutes. Garnish with coriander leaves.

Cut the edges of bread slices, toast them lightly with butter or ghee. Top it off with channa gravy and enjoy!

Cashew Nut Mix

I bought a packet of raw cashew nut from a cashew nut factory in Phuket and this recipe for people who always craving madly like me :P Enjoy!!

• Preheat the oven to 170 degrees C. Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
  In a bowl, toss 1 cup raw cashews, 1 tablespoon maple syrup, 2 pinch of cinnamon and curry powder and pinch of sea salt until well mixed.
• Spread the mixture onto the baking sheet. Bake until golden brown, stirring half way through, about 10 minutes. Remove from the oven and scrape the nuts onto a plate to cool.
• When the nuts are cool, put them into a bowl and toss together with 1/3 cup of halved dried apricots and raisins.
• Store in an airtight container or follow the serving suggestion. I bet you will finish it within two days :P

Serving suggestions: Divide the mix into small individual containers for snacking. Spoon a few tablespoons over a serving of yogurt or frozen yogurt. Add a few tablespoons to a bowl of fruit salad

HomeStyleChoices.com

I came across a new (to me) blog today, called HomeStyleChoices.com.

Its editor, Robert, is quite a good researcher, and I highly recommend a trip over there....Well, I'll just let him tell you himself:

Peggy


A Note From the Editor

The concept of this website was born out of two things; my passion for home design, with a bent toward the products that flesh out a home, and a desire to share the information I collected about those products with others.


Maybe it’s best that I introduce myself first – my name is Robert Levesque and I founded this site for the reasons just mentioned, among a few others. Not far down that list of reasons was the fact that when I researched the remodeling of my own home, I found the information too scattered, and it took a lot of time to pull it all together and make useful sense out of it.


It is true that there are lots of choices that need to be made when you’re remodeling a home or building a new one. But help is available and hopefully I can provide some of that to you.


Sprinkled throughout this website you’ll find “editor’s notes” and “editor’s comments”. That’s me doing the talking. What I hope to do with these bits of information is provide you with my own opinion, insight and observations on a particular product or subject, as a balance to the factual information presented here.


It’s always helpful for me to hear someone’s own impression or experience with regard to some topic I’m interested in. It’s sort of a ‘real life’ opinion that allows me to make better judgements. My hope is that these bits of information provide similar help to you.


HomeStyleChoices was created to help people in the process of improving their homes. As our header line states, it’s about “presenting choices and helping you choose”.