Friday, December 05, 2008

Oatmeal porridge with fruits and nuts



Oats are great for breakfast. They are healthy, filling and delicious.

Ingredients:
Instant quick cooking oats(I used maple and brown sugar flavor)-1 packet
Milk-1 cup
Banana-a few thinly sliced pieces
Apple finely chopped-a few pieces or any fruits
Walnuts-2

Method:
Boil milk. Turn off the heat. Add quick cooking oats. Transfer the mixture to a bowl.
Add sugar if needed. Add sliced fruits and nuts.

I am sending this to FIC white event hosted by Kitchen Flaovours and Sunshinemom.
Next comes Recipes for the rest of us event hosted by Ramki who wants us to send any simple and quick recipe. So this dish goes to his event as well.
Also sending this to Eat healthy-during pregnancy event hosted by Sangeeth.

Note:Tastes best when served immediately after preparing it.

Notes from The Sisterhood


Events on our Radar
Kitchen Sisters Interviewing & Recording Workshop in San Francisco.
Tuesday, December 16th. Contact us if you'd like to hear about future workshops.

Hidden Kitchens Works in Progress:
  • Inauguration Night potluck meals across the nation.
    Tell us about your's
    Call 202-408-9576.
  • Atomic Wine: Testing the age of wine through nuclear fallout residue.
Radio We’re hearing:
Brian Eno's essay for This I Believe on NPR's Weekend Edition, Sunday, November 23. Recorded by The Kitchen Sisters in Brian Eno’s studio in London. Brian's essay is based on his article, Freestyling.

Books We're reading:

Edges of Bounty by William Emery and Scott Squire.
Edges of Bounty is...a kind of road map. An invitation, a set of possibilities. It beckons. Find a friend, grab your camera and notebook. Hit the road and look for something.
More information available at Heyday Books.

From the Bottom of the Heap by Robert H. King.
We chronicled King's story in our Hidden Kitchens piece, King's Candy. Babylon Falling, an independent bookstore in San Francisco, recently hosted a reading with King. Visit their site to see more. You can order his book published by PM press here. Or visit Babylon Falling.

Websites & Blogs We're Viewing:

Kiss the Paper by Kate & Molly Prentiss


The Girl Project

Music We're Listening to:
Les Amazones De Guinee, an all-police-woman band from the
Republic of Guinea.
Albert Kuvezin & Yat-Kha, the "Tuvan throat-singing punk band"
Cimarrón, a Llanero band from Colombia.

Thursday, December 04, 2008

Tomato and Corn Curry

Tomato and Corn Curry

Even as we were yakking away on Skype, we remembered that we had told Mansi we will take part, in the Vegan Thanks Giving event! We just realized that there is less than 3 hours left (in the West Coast US!) for the deadline! And so ...Amma rushed off to prepare this delicious dish for a Bangalore breakfast, while I wrote out this recipe in Sydney. Even as I completed writing, my dad, the ever enthusiastic photographer mailed me a click. So here is our recipe for the Vegan Thanks Giving Event at the Fun and Food Blog! Yummy dish in a flash!


Ingredients

Oil – 1 Tbs
Jeera – ½ tsp
Onion – 1 chopped as finely as possible
Grated Ginger – ½ tsp
Tomato – 2 chopped as finely as possible
Salt – 1 tsp
Sambhar Powder as shown here – 1 Tsp
Corn – 2 cups (Deep frozen corn is easy to cook)
Water – 1 cup
Maida – 1tsp
Corriander leaves – few

Method
1. Heat oil, and add jeera.
2. Next add onion, and ginger.
3. Reduce the flame and fry until onion is caramelized.
4. Now add the tomato, salt and Sambhar powder, and stir well.
5. Cover the pan tightly with a lid.
5. Keep opening the pan time and again to stir, and ensure the mixture does not burn.
6. Once its cooked well, you will have a brilliant red tomato paste, and the oil will come out of the masala.
7. Mix maida with a little bit of water, and add to the pan and fry.
8. Now add the corn, and sautee.
9. Next add a cup of water and stir.
10. In a minute the corn will cook. Switch off once you have the consistency desired.
9. Garnish with fresh coriander leaves before serving.

Instead of Sambhar powder, you can use chillie powder and garam masala. However, Sambhar powder makes it a different and tasty adaptation. The sambhar powder we use, is a simple recipe, and we use it as a 'universal powder' for not only Sambhars, but also Rasam, Currys, Sabjis and Poriyals!

This curry is a favourite dish with bread, chappatis, dosas, even palav and fried rice!