Life 'n' Such

You are wondering what am I doing past couple weeks; well my parents are visiting from India, and all my friends are inviting us for feasts (literally, I am not kidding), and so I am just hogging away the yummy food!!! Remember I am a fuudie at heart!!!

My mom has been cooking hot meals for us almost all the days, atleast the days we havent been invited some place I now just have to stop eating and start taking down recipes from her.

But dont u worry, I have taken tons of pictures of food at their homes as well as our place and as soon as I get recipes, I will post them till then, I will put some pictures, I am sure, they are going to make you hungry!

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We had been to Detroit the last weekend to visit the Buchh’s. We went to Ford Museum, a must see if you are visiting the MotorCity and then we had lunch at Al Ameer. It is a reasonably priced restaurant, with good quality food. It serves halal food.

So next time you happen to be in Detroit, eat at Al- Ameer’s.

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Friday we had a tea party at Canaan’s house. She is from Turkey, and she has two gorgeous daughters!

I had gone hungry, and I am so glad!!!!!!! The food was just great! You dont believe me? Ok! Look at the picture then, recipes coming up soon!

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This is a fantastic salad Ulfet made for Canaan’s tea party today. It was soooooooooo good!!!!!!

And the best part, it is super easy, if you can boil a piece of chicken, you can create a masterpiece!! Extremely healthy too! Now what more can I say?

Here is the recipe.

Ingredients:

Boiled chicken breast shredded,
canned black and green olives, cut in small pieces, as much as you like,
canned sweet corn, as much as you like, washed and drained,
red cabbage cut in small pieces,
lettuce, cut in small pieces,
canned mushroom optional, (Had this salad with mushrooms at Nur’s place, another turkish friend)
lemon juice,
oil
salt, red pepper flakes, black pepper, oregano

Mix all the ingredients with the seasoning and lemon juice and oil. Done!!!!!!!!! Now did I mention before, this is a easy to make, no fuss, no nonsense recipe?

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Delicious and healthy, what more could you want? This is a delicious cake with pudding in the center. yummy! Again this recipe is from Hacer’s recipe chest!

Ingredients:
1 cup grated carrot,
1 cup walnuts
2 cup flour
1 tsp baking powder
4 eggs
1 1/2 cup sugar
2 tbsp yogurt

For the pudding:
6 cup milk
4 tbsp cornstarch
3 tbsp flour
1 cup sugar
1 stick butter
Mix all the ingredients for the cake and bake in a tray, which is greased with oil and then sprinkled with flour at 350 deg F.

To prepare the pudding, mix milk, cornstarch, flour and sugar and boil till it thickens (stirring continuously). When its ready, turn off the stove, and then mix 1 stick of unsalted butter in it.

When the cake is cooled, flip it out of the tray, cut it through the center to get 2 equal halves. Put one layer of the cake in the tray, pour a layer of pudding over this layer of cake, then put the second layer of cake over this pudding.

Finally spread the rest of the pudding over the cake.

Let it set in the refrigerator. Cut little pieces or big ones , and server chilled.

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I dont know what the turkish name for this recipe is, but its made with potatoes, and looks like a cake, so I named it Potato cake.

Its delicious, and I dont think you can go wrong with this recipe. Just put all the ingredients together and bake. Hacer showed me how to make this. Try this recipe with half the measure of the listed ingredients. You will get a medium size tray out of it.
Ingredients:

3 eggs,
3 potatoes medium size, chopped in thin equal sized pieces
3 Turkish tsp salt
1 onion chopped
1 cup yogurt
1 cup milk
1 cup oil
1 tsp baking powder
black pepper, red pepper, as per taste
parsley
1 1/2 -2 cups flour (enough to get a cake-batter consistency)
Method:

Mix all the above ingredients and bake till its golden red in color, and the center is firm (use a toothpick for testing).

Update: It is also called potato cake in turkish just fyi.

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Sale on adorable costumes (stock up for next year, cant beat the prices- 75% off!!) and candy(75-90% off) at Walgreens, Target, and almost all other stores.

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This is a yummy cake by Nurhaan. Its actually made with tea and its great with tea or just about anytime.

Ingredients:

1 cup tea (black)
1 1/2 cup sugar
1 cup oil
3 eggs
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp vanilla powder
3 apples chopped
1/2 tsp cinnamon
3 cups flour

Start by mixing the eggs and sugar (you may use a electric hand mixer). Now add the remaining ingredients except apples. Sprinkle the apples with little flour (it will prevent them from sinking to the bottom). Finally add the apples.

Bake at 350 deg F until the base and top is golden, and test with a tooth pick in the center, it shouldnt be gooey.

Enjoy with hot tea, perfect for chilled winter evenings!

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“….aur bahut saare matar…aur garam garam puriya!” (literally translated, it means: and lots more peas, with hot hot indian deep fried bread called puri)

Who doesnt like matar paneer in India? It is sooo good!

Here is the recipe, from my mother, we call her aaie (means Mother in Marathi).

Ingredients:

3 onions medium size
4 tomatoes
1 inch ginger (adrak)
7-8 cloves garlic (lasan)
Spice mix: garam masala, corriander (dhania) powder, chilli (mirchi) powder, turmeric (haldi)
salt as per taste
oil for cooking
and ofcourse paneer (indian cheese, you could make it at home too, i will soon post a recipe for that)
and lots of peas

Blend the onions, tomatoes, ginger and garlic. Now cook them in oil for a long time. I mean till the oil seperates out. Add the spice mix, fry for a minute or so. Add the peas, fry again for a bit. Then finally add the paneer cubes. Done!
You may fry the paneer pieces in oil and then put it in the curry.

Eat with jeera rice, or naan (tandoori bread made in India).

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I recently had this salad at Iman’s house. We had gone over to their place to sit by their fireplace in their new apartment. They have a new baby sister for Raghad and Omar, her name’s Rawand, but Iman calls her Rawando, and so do I.

Zaghals: Welcome back!

Cabbage is high in calcium and fiber.

Ingredients:
1/2 red cabbage
lemon juice,
olive oil,
salt
In a mixing bowl, toss the cut red cabbage, lemon juice, olive oil and a little salt. Let is sit for 5-10 minutes before serving. Done!

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