Goanese potatoes

Preparation time : 15- mins                        Cooking time : 20-mins

  

Ingredients

Boiled potatoes—2 to 3

Tomato-4

Oil-4 tablespoon

Peas-1 cup

Salt- to taste

For Gravy 

Coconut- ¾ cup

Red chilies-12

Coriander leaves- 1 tablespoon

Onion-2

Poppy seeds(khaskhas)- 2 tablespoon

Black pepper-3

Cinnamon-3 sticks

Cloves-3

Garlic-10

Method

1. Take a  pan and put two teaspoon oil. Add cinnamon, black pepper, cloves, poppy seeds, red chilies and coriander leaves to it.
2. Saute for 1.5 min on a medium flame
3. On an open flame roast onions. Once onions are roasted remove the blackened part and chop the remaining.
4. Take another pan add 2 teaspoon oil followed by grated coconut sauté for one minute.
5. Once this is done combine all the above saluted ingredients with roasted onion and garlic and form a paste.
6. Blanch tomatoes and form a puree.
7. Add oil in a pan put boiled potatoes, boiled peas ,tomato puree and paste made before.
8. Add water to improve consistency of gravy if required.
9. Cook on medium flame for 5 minutes.

Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

I hope you will enjoy this recipe .Do let us know your experience.

Chutney

Chutney is basically a side dish .Indian food is incomplete without chutney. In this post I will talk tell you recipes of three chutney which you can try at your homes.

Mint chutney

Ingredients:  Curd-1 cup

                     Mint-1/4 cup

                     Garlic-5 cloves

                     Green chilies-3

                     Salt- to taste

Method: Put mint, garlic, green chilies, salt in mixer and make a paste  to this paste add curd and  run mixer once more. Apart From Chapatti this chutney can also be eaten with pakodas etc.

Roasted Chickpea chutney (Bhuney chane ki chutney as referred in hindi)

Ingredients:    roasted chickpea-100 gm

                       Dry mango powder (amchoor)-1/2 teaspoon

                       Pepper-1/2 teaspoon

                       Salt to taste

Method: Soak chickpea for approximately 8 hours. Roast the soaked chickpeas. Form a paste of the roasted chickpeas. Add mango powder, chili powder and salt followed by some water. Mix thoroughly. You can keep grinded roasted chickpeas beforehand and use it whenever required to make chutney.

Potato chutney

Ingredients: Potato-1/2 cup (boiled)

                    Curd-3/4 cup

                    Ginger garlic paste-2 tablespoon

                    Green chilies-3

                     Salt to taste

Method: Put potatoes, garlic, green chilies, salt in mixer and make a paste .To this paste add curd and run mixer one more time.(You could optionally include chopped fresh coriander leaves to the chutney.

In all the above chutneys you can replace green chilies for pepper and vice versa as per your choice. one can add ingredients to the chutney as per ones taste. Further experiment is the key to new recipes.

Big Yellow Door cafe

Big Yellow Door

If you have been to this place your mouth will start watering just by listening its name

If  Big Yellow door is something you have never heard before. Let me refresh your knowledge. It is a café with two branches one at Satya Niketan and other at Vijay Nagar. It is one of the most popular places among college Students.

Branches

1. ·         H-8, Opposite Venkateswara College,Satyaniketan, New Delhi
2. ·         H-8 B, Near GTB Nagar Metro Station, Opposite Hudson Lane's NDPL Office ,Vijay Nagar

Glimpse of menu

Food: The presentation as well as taste live up to expectations. It is a cafe offering mouth-watering food. It is a heaven of food . Their baked pasta, nachos and Bomb burger are my personal favourites. My friend and her mother are a huge fan of BYD they travel all the way from West Delhi to North Delhi just for BYD.

Baked Tom Pasta

Juicy Burger and Indian burger

Table Reservation: There is a huge waiting for this outlet as it’s always jammed so it’s better if one get a booking beforehand. Or you can wait the food will be worth the wait.

Interior :It is a small place. Although ambience is good. What I like most is they have a place in their café where they put notes from their customers reviews

Price: Reasonable you can order a number of dishes and yet nothing goes off the budget .It won’t make a hole in your pocket.

Timings:  8 a.m. to 11 p.m.

BYD is a complete package delicious food, amazing service and no hole in the pocket. What else can we can ask for?

Decoding Deepika Padukone looks at IIFA

No doubt Deepika Padukone is a style icon. She always stuns everyone with her green carpet appearances. Recently she stole the show with her gorgeous outfit at iifa so we decided to decode her iifa looks from last four years.

IIFA 2016

For the big Awards night, Deepika wore Sabyasachi with stunning emeralds from Tanishq and rings from Anmol.

IIFA 2015

                       Deepika Padukone  walked the green carpet draped in a Sabyasachi saree.

IIFA 2014

Deepika Padukone  wore a Zuhair Sheath Scoop Appliques Beaded Design Dress .What I absolutely loved was Sabyasachi dress with amarpali earings she wore at IIFA magic of the moments

IIFA 2013

Deepika wore Naeem Khan gown at iifa although she skipped the green carpet. She paired the gown with nude pumps.

Out of these looks of deepika Padukone at IIFA which one is favourite Do comment below.

My Hair Smoothening Experience

If you are one of those who crave for straight hair and thinking about getting rebonding or smoothening. You have come to right place this post is for you .Whenever one think about treating hair chemically a whole lot of questions pop up in our minds  whether I should go for it or not?, will the chemicals damage my hair, what all products will be used etc etc. So this post will be all about my experience of getting smoothening the pros and cons so lets get started.

I still remember when I was in school I used to always crave for straight hair. Whenever I used to see girls with straight hair I used to feel how blessed they are. It was only later I realised they are not so blessed they have got their hair chemically treated. During college I thought of getting rebonding but I was a bit  sceptical as my friends told me I will end up getting my hair damaged.  So instead I ended up getting a hair straightener. Somehow I managed to survive a year with straightener but one day I was fed up. it  was a lot of hassle to straigten my hair given the amount of volume of my hair and frigginess. I Decided no matter the amount of damage it will cost to my hair I want straight hair. I went to a salon to get a idea about the type of products used in rebonding . The lady at the salon told me to go for smoothening instead looking at the type of my hair and what I was expecting from the treatment . Smoothening will give you more manageable hair by reducing the frizz and making your hair smoother and softer. It gives you a more natural look. Whereas rebonding is good for people with very curly hair or frizzy hair. If your aim perfectly straight hair go for rebonding.So guys always consult at the salon which will work best for you rebonding,smoothening .

My experience

I had three choice in smoothening whether to go for matrix,loreal or Schwarzkopf. I ended up going for matrix as I have been using matrix products for quite some time and was satisfied with it( review coming soon).

Procedure: It is long procedure involving a number of steps shampooing,conditioning,blow dry,straightening,applying cream on hair a number of time.

First your hair are washed and shampooed followed by blow drying, straightening your hair then a cream is applied which is kept for quite some time then again shampooing blow drying this cycle is followed two times.

Time taken: One has to be very patient if one is going for smoothening it will take approximately 5-6 hours. With you sitting at one place doing nothing (I ended up getting back pain).Go for the treatment when you are completely free.

After effects: after your hairs are treated you are not supposed to tie your hair or put them behind your ear  or wet them basically you cannot touch your hair for 2 days this is the hardest part as any type of interference with your hair can affect the texture of your hair. After 2 days you are supposed to again visit salon and get a hair spa. This hair spa gives you a license to again touch your hair.

Results: Initially when I saw my hair after smoothening I realised volume of my hair was completely gone and they looked very flat. But this is before hair spa after hair spa I was satisfied with the results. I totally loved my hair.

After the treatment you are provided with products you are supposed to use .There were basically 3 products shampoo, conditioner and serum. And one is advised to go for hair spa once a month.

Cons: first three four month there was no indication of damage to my hair but after some time I started getting split ends(I never had split ends before smoothening).

Now the question comes will I go for smoothening again- the answer is yes yes definitely yes

 In the end I would only like to say that all the above information is entirely based on my personal experience .Everyone hair type is different and different products affect individuals differently.So always consult a hair expert before going for any treatment.