Stop Being Lazy!

Day 30 of 100 Happy Days:

Usually I don’t do anything the day after the weekly meeting of my research work. For last two weeks I was so busy with the work, I barely had the time and energy to do some other work. Yesterday was the meeting day, but I couldn’t just sit and do nothing today. I didn’t get the chance to apply any job for last two weeks, so there is a lot on my list. Also, I am on diet but for last few days I didn’t cook properly and my husband was just eating this and that (like nan bread with spreads!). I was feeling guilty about it, so cooked his favorite beef curry, egg curry and beef biryani today! 

 GM Diet day 4: Milk and Banana day

My diet is going alright. Drank three glasses of milk and 5 bananas. Cheated a little, ate a piece of beef while cooking 😦

Tomorrow is beef day! Yea! Already marinated some thin beef stakes! 

Coconut Barfi (jelly type pudding)

One of the easy-peasy recipe of a dessert! Anyone who loves coconut will fall in love with this pudding or barfi! (You can call it whatever you want)

Ingredients:

Coconut water (without sugar): 1 can
Coconut milk: 1 can
Sugar: 4 ts
Agar-agar:2 ts

Direction:

1. Boil coconut water with 2 ts of sugar and 1 ts of agar agar
2. Pour it in a serving dish
3. Let it cool ( you can refrigerate it after it comes down to the room temperature)
4. Boil the coconut milk with some water, 2 ts of sugar, 1 ts of agar agar
5. Pour it to the serving dish on top of the coconut water mixture. You have to make sure that the coconut water mixture has been solidified by then, or it can get mixed.
6. Let it cool and refrigerate it.
7. Cut in smaller pieces and serve!

Next time I’m going to try this with different types of colorful juice!

Tips:
1. If you want to buy coconut water with sugar, just adjust the sweet according to your taste.
2. There are different types of coconut milk, some are in a form of thick cream and some are liquid. We want liquid type of thickness for this dessert, so if you have bought cream type coconut milk, you have to thin it with some water!

Day 21 of 100 Happy Days

Love to be the Host!

Yes, I love to cook, and the intensity multiplies many times when I cook for friends, family and others. Off course I get tired, but never get exhausted when I invite people! I totally love when people come to our house for dinner or only to hang out. It feels great be the host and it is very relaxing to chill out with friends with lots of foods, right? So, it doesn’t matter how tired I get, I feel extremely happy and satisfied when I host a party. So, here goes my happiness project post!

Day 19 of 100 Happy Days:

I invited some friends today for dinner. As I always cook Indian rich foods when I invite someone, this time my husband said, let’s try something different, why not cook some Chinese and Thai food?  I was concerned at first because I cook oriental foods occasionally only for home eating, I never cooked oriental for parties. But, then I thought, let’s do this! Sometime different is good. It took me around 8-10 hours to cook all items, but everyone said foods were delicious. 😄 These are the items I cooked today.

• Chicken fried rice 
• Broccoli with chicken
• Hot wings
• Tilapia fillet in coconut milk
• Thai red curry shrimp
• Fried chicken
• Sizzling sriracha chicken
• Salad
• Coconut jelly type pudding (dessert)
• Caramel custard (dessert)

Dessert Mania

I will post the recipes in next few days! 💞

Tuna Fish Cake or Tuna Kebob

Day 16 of 100 Happy Days:

Today for the happiness project I am posting one of my favorite recipe ( as I don’t have anything significant to share). This is called Tuna Kabob or Tuna-Fish Cake. In my category, it is one of my easy long recipe. It is great as a side-dish at dinner or lunch, also great for snack in case your friends are coming over! All my friends love my tuna fish cake!

Ingredients:
Tuna: 2 cans, water drained completely
Potato: 1 large, boiled till soft enough to mash easily
Onions: 1 large, chopped and fried till golden brown
Egg: 1
Garam masala: 0.5 ts (Kabob masala or normal garam masala or cumin and coriander powder will also work)
Salt: taste wise
Red chili powder: 0.5 ts or less
Coriander: Chopped
Green Chili: 1 chopped, you can skip this as it makes the kabobs really hot
Bread crumbs
Oil: 250 ml

Direction:
1. Mix everything, other than the bread crumbs and oil
2. Mash with hand or masher
3. Wet hands with small amount of oil and make medium-sized balls. Gently squeeze the balls and it will give you nice circular shaped cakes.
4. Roll the cakes on the bread crumbs
5. Heat the oil on medium heat and fry the fish cakes/tuna kabobs
6. Serve with ketch up or some other sauce

Tips:
1. Make sure that the mash is sticky but not too runny. If not too sticky or too dry to make a ball, give another egg yolk (another full egg can make it too runny) and if it is too runny add some more potato.
2. If you want to make the dish healthy, just bake the fish cakes instead of frying it (350F, 30-40 minutes, turning once). In my photo, the cakes are baked.
3. If your tuna already contains some salt, you just need to add small amount of salt. I would suggest to taste it before making the balls to make sure the amount of salt is right.
4. Tuna is very light, only small amount of masala will give right amount of taste, while too much masala can make it bitter in taste.