Tuesday, September 16, 2008

My first self-cooked dinner!

Today my roommate and I moved our lazy asses and cooked some dinner. And we completed it in a record time of 1 hour 15 minutes on our small electric stove. The menu included jeera rice, dal, mashed potatoes and panner butter masala (PBM) :D And mind you, we even made the paneer from the milk ourselves.

Here is the pic:-

And it was quite tasty given that it was our first time. Actually, I have helped my mother several times in making rice and dal, but that was more of a mechanical process where my mom would keep guiding me with the amounts of rice, waters, etc. that I needed to add and the number of whistles of the pressure cooker I needed to wait for. Today we were on our own :)

We read the recipe for PBM on net and then found out we didn't have tomoatoes and a few spices. We added some tomato sauce to compensate for the tomotaoes :P A nice looking gravy came out of that. And it tasted just fine!

10 comments:

Anonymous said...

This calls for a party! :D My congratulations.

Anonymous said...

Tomato sauce in place of tomatoes :O wooohhh myieeeee gaaaadddddd!

I should also start learning how to cook once I figure out how to fix that damn lid of the cooker!

Anonymous said...

you know what zulu sir say if he sees this ... "dude ... you need a wife" :P
btw tomato sauce recipe rocks!!!

Anonymous said...

Ya man.. using tomato sauce for tomatoes.. Nice innovation!! :)

hellboy said...

thts gr8 !! .. now we need to hav a new caption .. "did u smell when turbo is cookin" :P ..

Anonymous said...

haha ..good good ! Now we have your eatables and the tomoato break through :P , IV's stinking food stuffs and my chicken omelette ...

Now I guess we can have a cooking chapter from among the IIITian bloggers ;)

mythalez said...

hearty welcome to the club of IIIT-bre(a?)d-chefs :D

Anonymous said...

@Aniket : Don't you want the recipe for the "MAG" :P u can prolly ask iv for more recipes !

Anonymous said...

Not bad ....

Now perhaps start some experimentation ;)

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