Mo's Rainy Sunday Receipe

Red Kidney Beans (Rajma) Curry

Grind to a paste - 1 Onion, 2 Chillis (I added one red and one green so as its not very spicy), big chunk of ginger, 4 Garlic cloves and mint leaves. Add oil to a pan, before you add the paste, add cumin, and coriander seeds until light brown. And then add the paste. Fresh spices smell awesome :)

Keep stirring until the oil separates from the spice paste as seen below

Cut 2 Tomatoes, 4-5 potatoes and 1 can of kidney beans

Before you add tomatoes, add little bit of garam masala (mix of indian spicies), salt to taste and pinch of Turmeric.
And then add tomatoes and stirr until they mix properly

Seen like this

Add Potatoes and Kidney Beans and Add 2 Cups of Water and cook (slow heat) until potatoes are cooked

Trust me :) .. u won't be disappointed if you like Indian food

Dessert (am no expert in this now) - Most times, they end in disaster. So this time I went for something very very simple (thanks to lil for suggesting it)

Got 1 sliced mango with skin, plain yoghurt, saffron and tiny bit of milk to mix saffron

Grill the mango with brown sugar or plain sugar sprinkled on top

Mix the saffron in warm milk and add to yoghurt and mix throughly

Final product: Topped with pecan

Mo's Mint Thai Red Curry

Coconut Milk + Mo's Special Mint Paste

Saute Vegetables + Chicken

Final Product with Yop

Eat Better

Interesting TED talk about "What's wrong with what we eat". Its not about vegetarianism, vegan, meat eaters, etc etc, but its about what we are eating & how we are putting entire planet at risk and how we can have better diet by improving our food - "The Real Food". 

Eat Better. We have to choose now!

Back in Dublin

Yesterday, I arrived back to Dublin, after a 3 weeks stint in Delhi. There was so much to write about while I was there, about the city itself, changes happening in Delhi (flyovers everywhere, metro, roads), rising cost of living (inflation, Malls), awesome food (street food, new joints, home-made), traffic (didn't try to drive my bro's new car), so n so. But offcourse, I didn't feel like writing anything, my laziness had taken over.

I am already missing the good food

Back to pasta now :))

Woh Woh

its been so so long since I wrote something. I feel bad now :))
I do have somethings to tell all, but it has to wait a bit more, so in the mean time, I will say something about Italy.

During xmas, we made a road trip across Austria, Italy and Swiss. Italy was a welcome surprise, I just loved the place, architecture of the cities, culture, more so FOOD, COFFEE and SWEETS & ice cream (best i had). We visited Verona (of the Romeo Juliet fame), Venice (everything I say for this city would be less, Amazing, loved every moment I spent there, def. once again), Milan (highlight was the Leonardo DaVinci's original painting "The Last Supper", the feeling of being in the same room as DaVinci was ...), heading over to Lake Como and Belagio (beautiful settings of the alps and lake, a must visit in summer).

Not to leave, Interlaken and Zurich in Swiss (but no snow) and Innsbruck in Austria were great fun too.