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What happened?Take nice rest kuganka.
Happy Birthday Aarthi! May all God's blessing be showered upon you on your blessed day!
K :- Praying for your health. Don't stress yourself with recipes. Just rest.
Wish u a very happy Bday Aarthii...:)
Take care K... Wish things getter better 4 u soon...
Happy Birthday; Aarthii,
Thanks friends for all your concerns and wishes.
It was nothing you know, it's just sometimes, your body will refuse to co operate with you.
I was feeling very tired and exhausted , just felt like sleeping the whole day.
Did not want to be disturbed, even for food or anything.
You get irritated even if someone wants to talk to you. That sort of feeling.
Well I was a bit better, and yesterday was a hectic day again.
I had to cook for about 50 people as it was my F-I-Law's thithi.
Of course my maid helped me. I was so tired even to take pictures.
Here is the list:
Ponni rice
Paruppu kadayal
Nei
Paruppu sambar with drumsticks and brinjals
Seeraga rasam
Vatral kulambu
Talicha tayir
Urad dal vadai
Semiya payasam
Kesari
Appalam
Mint thogyal
Lime pickle
Motchai+avarakkai subji
Cabbage channa dal kuto
Keerai kadayal
Plantain podi mas
Long beans prettal
karunai kilangu masiyal
Pineapple goju
Cucumber + tomato padchadi
All in 21 items. Thanks friends. Kugan
Dear Suvai, thanks for your nice posts.
Will post soon your Puli upma recipe.
I do not remember posting it, Yet another forgotten recipe.
I only remember moor kali, that is another name for Amirtha Palam.
Thanks Suvai, Take care, Kugan
Thanks Dev for all your nice posts.
Dev, I heard my relatives are all going back to attukal and ammi.
They cannot stand the current cut anymore.
Pity you Dev, how to stand the heat, I just cannot imagine the heat.
Thanks and take care Dev, Kugan
Thank you Lakme for your nice post.
Lakme, try out the simple recipes slowly, one by one.
Give us the feed back if you like them.
Thanks and take care, Kugan
NM thanks for your prayers.
Actually I am kicking alive, is because of good souls like you NM.
All your prayers means a lot to me. Thanks again. Kugan
Thanks Aarthii, I am glad you liked our cake, dinner and present.
Hope you had a blasting birthday celebration with your family.
Thanks and take care, Kugan
Thank you Madhu Sree, for dropping into Kugan's Kitchen.Quote:
Originally Posted by Madhu Sree
Thanks also for inquiring about me.
I am so much better now, Ahnaa apa apa eththavuthu konjam varum.
Otherwise I am better now. Thanks and take care, Kugan.
Dear Dev, a cooling salad for you. Kugan
CUCUMBER AND MINT SALAD
Ingredients:
3 ripe red tomatoes
1 cucumber (medium sized)
1 onion - (small)
2 tbs fresh lime juice to taste
2 tbs Virgin olive oil
1 small bunch fresh mint or to taste
Salt - to taste
Black pepper - to taste
Method:
Wash and peel cucumbers & onion.Wash tomatoes and mint. Chop cucumbers, tomatoes, and onion very finely, and mix.
Now add the finely chopped mint.Add fresh lime juice,salt,and black pepper. Dribble in olive oil.
Cut a lime and put at the side
Serve chilled
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Kugan,Quote:
Originally Posted by kugan98
How are u?
I am amazed. How do you actually do this kind of task - 21 dishes.
Please ask someone to sutthi podaran for you. Naan kannu vachiten.
rdgs
Kugan thanks for all the nice recipes.
We are all very happy with your recipes. At the same time take care of your health.
Health is very important. Rose
K, super salad recipe... apt for the weather here... veyilai samalikka- I use a hair oil from an ayurveda hospi which helps cool down the body... adhai potitu dailyum hair wash pannitaale podhum... veyil avalo kodumaiya theriyuradhillai...atleast maththavanga complain pannura alavukku enakku kashttama theriyuradhillai... aprom UPS iruke... adhu varum konjam neram...atleast night time thaakku pidikudhu... day timela irukkave irukku namma veppam maramum visiriyum...:lol:
Udambu sari illenuttu ivalo samacheengala!!!...ungalai ennanu solradhune enakku theriyalai!!!...
Thanks a lot NM.Quote:
Originally Posted by NM
Thanks dev.Quote:
Originally Posted by dev
Thank you AanaaQuote:
Originally Posted by aanaa
Correcta soneenga dev!Quote:
Originally Posted by dev
Eppadi thaan ippadi samikareenganu theiryala kuganka
U r great !!!!
Welcome to Kugan's Kitchen Rachudevi:pink::pink:
Hope your stay will be a pleasant one here.
Please post your views on the recipes, also any feed back if you have tried.
Please come to the forum, only when you are free.
I have always emphasised that our family comes first.
Thanks Rachudevi for your wishes.
Kavalai padatheengga, a loving sister's eyes will not do anything.
Thanks and take care. Kugan
Thanks Rose for your nice posts.
Thanks to for your wishes.
Hope you will give us more feed back on dishes tried.
Thanks and take care. Kugan
Thanks Dev for your nice post.
Just cannot imagine living without current:confused2:
Well Dev as a D-I-Law it is our duty to cook when there is an occasion.
My family does not like catering, that too if it happens to be a prayer.
I am used to all these things.
Thanks. Kugan
Dear Aarthi, thanks for your nice post.
Well everything comes with practice, when I first came to Malaysia,
I did not know how to cook even a simple dish.
This is all my M-I-Law's training. Let me explain how I go about it.
My dear friends cooking for thithi for 50 people is nothing great.
My maid will wash the kitchen , stove and everything by 10 p.m.
I will have my head bath and prayers by midnight.
First we will start cutting all the veges and put them in seperate containers.
The next will be cutting of onions, ginger green chillies garlic and things.
Followed by roasting ingredients for making into powders, roasting things,
for payasam and so on. Then grinding of urad dal for vadai.
By 3.30 a.m dal will be boiling for sambar. Once the dal is cooked,
we will begin our other cookings.
by 8.00 a.m I have to finish the cooking, since the priest will come
about 9.am in the morning. Usually vadai, appalam and rice will be the last items,
to be cooked. I will have to bathe again, my prayers and be ready for the priest
by 9.a.m. I will usually be exhausted by 3.pm when all the guests leave.
Thats it friends. Kugan
I love this Chinese vegetable called Bok Choy.
Today I will post a simple recipe, as to how to stir fry the vegetable.
Tomorrow will be an Indianised version:-D Kugan.
STIR FRIED BOK CHOY
Ingredients:
300 grms fresh bok choy
3 pips garlic smashed
1 small piece of ginger finely chopped
1 small onion sliced
1 green chillie chopped
1 tsp sesame oil
Little pepper powder
A tiny pinch of sugar
Salt to taste
Method:
Wash the bok choy and cut the leafy portion and stems seperately.
The stems should be about ½ an inch thick.
Heat oil in a pan, add in the smashed garlic and saute well.
There should be a nice aroma, add in the ginger, onions and the chillie.
Stir fry well, add in cut stems and fry for a few seconds.
Now add in the green part of the vege, saute for few seconds.
Add in the salt, tiny pinch of sugar and the pepper powder.
Saute well and remove. Serve still warm with rice or roti.
NOTE: If you want little sauce, add in 1 tsp of corn flour mixed with little water.
Add in the pan, stir fry and remove.
This is how the Bok Choy looks:
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The Stir Fried Bok Choy:
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:mrgreen::mrgreen::mrgreen:.......K....onga "Tiger Salt Flour" padichi nalla sirichen ngo.....:noteeth:.....
hope u r feeling better.....semma velaiya kitchen la thithiku???? but u know what....all that effort brings us tremendous joy to see that our family enjoys the spread...:-)
aarthi...........hope you had a wonderfullll birthdayy!!!! belated wishes to u..:-)
dev......current cut for so many hours everyday???? how are ppl managing especially during summer....:-(
what is ups...is it like a generator??
adengappaaaa.....menu seems like two pages to me....:noteeth: but for 50 ppl one would need a lot of items....i bet everyone enjoyed it a lot....for you make it with such devotion...;-) :clap::clap: to u....
Achocho Suvai, I thought you always come on weekends only.
That's the reason I did not post your "tiger salt flour" recipe.
I will post it soon. Thanks come often to Kugan's Kitchen.
Vanthu oru kalaku kalakunga. We really enjoy your posts.
Thanks, Kugan
Kugan's Kitchen takes the opportunity to wish
All our telugu brothers, sisters, and other people a happy ugathi.
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K, salad supera irundhichu... just had it...:)
Unga cooking sessionai padikum podhe enakku thalaiyay suththudhu... we are so used to caterers that we just couldn't imagine someone cooking so many dishes for so many people!!!... even for prayers, we just cook for padayal and caterers for guests... But I have to agree with u that it all comes with practice... Younger daysla I've seen the ladies in our house cook for small functions(like for 100-150 ppl) with the help of friends n relatives... enga generation aalungalukku thaan 10 perukku melaina alavu kuda theriyaradhu illai...:oops:
UPS-enakku exactaa solla theriyalai...but it's something like this... an electrical device with batteries(1 or more) conencted to it... when there is power, the batteries gets charged and where there is a power-cut, there will be near-instantaneous power supply from these batteries...UPS-uninterrupted power supply...they also call it an inverter... It is not a generator...we also have a small household generator for those power shut-down days...;)
Solar based UPS is also in the market these days...
:bow::clap:K :-
neenga ivvlo senjittu, 3pm thaan tired-a aayittengga, naanu intha maathirir vidiya vidiya samaicha, 9 am priest varumbOthu, naanu collapse thaan!:rotfl2:
Dev :- neenga right sonneengga! For Ananthiy's birthday, 30 ppl-ku naan samaichat60 ppl-ku thErum:banghead:. had to pack for everyone to take home until i ran out of containers! :roll::rotfl:now, my pantry is filled with new containers ... maybe to be used up in the next function!
Hats-off to K!
enakku konjam anuppi vainga! :lol: Aunty is in India!Quote:
Originally Posted by NM
exactly!!!...Quote:
Originally Posted by NM
:lol: I have done the same many times...vaazhkaila idhellam sagajamappa(goundamani style)...;) :lol:Quote:
Originally Posted by NM
Dev, I am so glad that you liked the salad.
Very refreshing on a hot day.
You are right Dev it all comes from practise.
Now I can cook for about 100 people the maximum, without help.
More than that I need more hands to help me around with the preparations.
Thanks for your pm Dev, our friend was very happy and grateful.
I have posted the pm to you.
Thanks and take care, Kugan
Thanks NM for your nice post and encouragements.
I was moulded into this by my in-law.
Thanks to her.
NOTE: Apadiyeh, ennakum konjam parcel pannungga.
Take care, Kugan
Rajraj uncle, how are you getting on?
How are your grandchildren?
Oh! aunty India va, apa what do you do for food?
Athuthaan namma NM kitta kekureengala.:-D
Enjoy the food uncle. Thanks and take care. Kugan
Dev, you all are very lucky in India.
Remainder food can be given to an orphanage or old folks home.
I asked an orphanage manager, that I would like to contribute one day's lunch
to the children there. You know what he told me, madam the children are fed up
of eating sambar daily, can you contribute few buckets of kentucky fried chicken?:roll:
I just walked away from the place.
Thanks and take care. Kugan
Well I promised to post the Indianised version of the bok choy.
Dev, do you get this vege in India? If you get try it.
Kugan.
INDIAN STYLE BOK CHOY
Ingredients:
2 tbs oil
6 shallots sliced
To Grind Into Smooth Paste:
1 tbs grated coconut
1 inch ginger
4 pips garlic
1 tsp kas- kas seeds, (soaked in water for 10 minutes)
6 cashew nuts
2 tsp chillie powder
¼ tsp tumeric powder
300 grms bok choy cut into ½ inch in length
1 tbs lime juice
Salt to taste
Method:
Heat oil in a pan, add in the sliced shallots.
Saute for a minute, add in the ground paste.
Fry till fragrant and oil seperates.
Add in the chillie and tumeric powder.
Stir fry for a minute, add in the cut bok choy,
Stir fry for a second, add in the salt and lime juice.
The bok choy will ooze out some liquid and will soften.
Stir to coat the bok choy with all the ingredients.
Remove and serve with rice.
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