My little Recipe Journal

[Preety_India]

I have to make coconut curry. 

I need to add tomatoes, chilli powder and curry leaves and saute in oil. 

And then add salt. 

Next add all chopped veggies

 

 

 

Veggies chopped 

 

Make Kol 

 

Dal with oil and turmeric 

 

Coconut curry paste 

 

Add vinegar in soup or curry 

 

 

Sauce 

 

 

[Preety_India]

 

 

 

 

[Preety_India]

Finally coconut curry ready. Yay. 

Tired lol

 

And nice fresh steaming  hot long Jasmine Basmati rice to eat with this curry. My lunch is Ready!! 

 

 

 

[Preety_India]

I just finished making some tea. 

It looks really milky. 

I guess I should have added more tea leaves. 

Anyway. It tasted really good. Fresh feeling. 

I like a lot of milk in my tea and coffee. 

 

 

[Preety_India]

 

On 11/13/2020 at 8:45 AM, Preety_India said:

So I didn't have any spoon in the kitchen and the only spoon I had broke yesterday. 

 

Looking to buy some kitchen utensils. 

 

But I don't know what to call all these silly spoons. 

 

One is called jhara or skimmer or frying spoon. Looks like this. 

My mom uses this one. I'm yet to use this. It's rounded and it's called jhara. 

 

 

The other is called Turner 

 

 

Some other is called Spatula. The only Spatula I knew was the one that I used in college in chemistry lab. 

 

 

 

 

 

Now there is also a slotted Spatula and a solid one. Don't know which one to buy 

 

 

 

So I got a pair of tongs to lift a Naan. Ting tong lololol. 

A basting brush 

 

 

 

A slotted turner 

 

 

My mom uses this type of turner. They call it dosa palta or Roti Naan palta

 

 

 

Solid flipper turner. I use this a lot. 

 

 

I'm planning to buy a wooden set but not decided yet. 

 

 

Butter spoon or spreader. 

 

 

 

This is called a karchi or ladle, soup ladle 

Good for lifting chunks  

 

 

This one is better for transferring curry. I don't have one. 

 

 

My mom uses these 

They are called rice spoons. 

 

Wooden rice porridge spoon is usually this shape. 

 

 

Mixing spoons 

I can use this as a stirrer. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Serving spoon or ladle 

 

 

 

 

 

This looks funny. It's called spoonula lol. 

 

 

 

 

 

A pasta fork 

 

 

 

So finally 

...... Phew. 

After a lot of searching for hours I settled on this one and decided to buy this black spoon set that has all the spoons so I don't have buy them separately. 

It was 64% off so good for me. Budget price. 

Looks good. The color doesn't matter to me. 

 

 

 

[Preety_India]

List of items

• . Sauce pan 
• . Steel pan 
• . Black pan 
• Spoons 
• Milk pan 
• Box of cereals 
• Bread 

 

• . Roti dough kneading basket bowl 
• Chakla marble 
• Rolling pin 
• . Measuring cup 
•  Water container 
• Glass container with spoons 
• . Glass container to store dough 
• Different rolling pins 
• Dish to keep half baked rotis 
• Flat pan for baking 
• Plain Solid Turner or Slotted Turner 
• Butter Patla or Butter Spatula. 
• Double dish melamine or silverware to store baked roti 
•  

 

 

•  . How to make Bhatura/Bhature. 
• . 

 

 

 

• . Rice 
• Cooker with ring and whistle 
• . Hot stand 
• Rice wash clean bowl 
• Transfer coaster or hot stand. Marble coaster. 

     

How to make pulao and Biryani 

•  . Dal 
• . Chilli green 
• Onion. Julienne cut 
• Containers multi 
• Curry leaves 
• Cumin seeds 
• Turmeric 
• .. Tomato Julienne Cut
• Sizzle Pot. Or Mini  Casserole 
• Olive Oil or Sunflower Oil 

 

 

Edited November 26, 2020 by Preety_India

[Preety_India]

• Bread basket 
•  

[Preety_India]

Love this coffee. 

 

 

[Preety_India]

Time to get a teapot 

 

[Preety_India]

I'm collecting every possible material for my kitchen. 

Will be getting a teapot. 

I already have earthenware and melamine. I'm interested in stoneware. The heavy ones 

Time to eat some hard boiled eggs. 

 

[Preety_India]

Oooooh are they gonna break or what? These little eggs, testing them. 

Last time one of these broke so bad, it was thin shelled. 

They call them free range. 

 

 

[Preety_India]

I'm trying to build my kitchen from scratch since I moved in. 

And I'll be getting some stuff, only that which I can afford so I have to be careful. 

This is not an easy task. 

One thing that I'm very fond of is kitchen materials

I love collecting different materials and see how they work in the kitchen especially old materials. I like to imagine how people used to cook food in the old times and it's very fascinating to me 

Of course these days everything is done by machines whether it's a chopper or air fryer or a microwave. But I miss the old times. I already have the microwave and the other new technology. But I want to try out the older ways of cooking food 

What I found is that food cooked in older ways is way tastier than the one fast cooked in machines. The machines kinda leech off and squeeze out all the good juicy parts of the food leaving a dry desiccated flavor. 

I have been using machines for so many years that's its boring to do that again. This time I thought I will try something new. 

And since I'm a witch I can make my own concoctions and potions and brews in the kitchen. After all a witch gotta learn her sorcery in the kitchen. 

 

 

[Preety_India]

So I'm trying to learn more about cookware or kitchenware materials and it's really fascinates me so much. 

Today I was browsing through some info and trying to learn the difference between stoneware, porcelain and bone china 

Bone China is very commonly found in my country, it would be difficult to find porcelain. 

And porcelain is kinda expensive. Even bone china is expensive. 

[Preety_India]

So the first thing that I came across was stoneware. 

And it seems it's the older way of making ceramic things. They heat the material to a really high temperature and then at that point they add some kind of clay to render a distinct glaze to it which is often found in stoneware vessels. 

It has a natural mirror glaze and its tough to tell if a ceramic or earthenware is simply painted with glaze or varnish  or if the glaze is natural.. 

I have seen a lot of stoneware pieces in my mom's kitchen growing up. So I kind of have a clue how the glaze actually looks like. 

A good example of a stoneware is this stoneware mug I bought recently to add to my frugal collection of kitchen vessels. 

Notice the distinct glass like glaze both on the inside and the outside. A mirror finish. Often times ceramic wares do show a hint of glaze but it could be just the paint which usually wears off after regular use. Then it begins to look more matte or plasticy in appearance with a thin sheen on it. You know it then that you got fooled.

 

 

 

 

[Preety_India]

What did I do with my old kitchen? 

I took all the stuff and kept it in the garage and placed an ad on the bulletin board of my apartment last week. A friendly old man responded to my ad and I sold him all the silverware and some chinaware at 70% discount. And I gave him some for free. I'm glad I gave it all away so I can start a fresh start from scratch. He was probably looking for something cheap and he quickly responded and he was kinda happy. 

I moved into another block in the same apartment last week and it was hellish. Didn't sleep. I had to rearrange all the furniture. Lot of work. 

I'm surprised that the old man was interested in buying my kitchenware despite the pandemic. I wasn't really hoping for someone to respond to my ad. 

And now I'm slowly gathering a lot of new stuff for my kitchen. This will take some time. 

 

[Preety_India]

I find it so relaxing to watch these videos on cleaning dirty grubby old kitchenware. I kinda feel satisfied that they were finally cleaned. 

And quite a bit of tips on how to clean out all the gunk. 

I really wanted to know how to clean some of the old pots I had kept. 

I didn't sell everything, maybe like 90% of it but I still have some of the old kitchen stuff like a few old plates and pans and a few silverware and china. 

These videos have some good cleaning tips. 

 

 

 

This guy uses Coca-Cola lol 

 

This video below was like using the entire kitchen to clean a teapot. 

This one was nice. So much gunk on the pot though. 

Nice trick of the fabric sheet. 

 

 

 

This one of the best. Thanks lady. 

 

[Preety_India]

This guy explains it so well. 

I'm such a good cook, I often end up burning the food. So this video is really important to me. 

 

Edited December 3, 2020 by Preety_India

[Preety_India]

Want to read this later

https://delishably.com/dairy/How-to-buy-the-healthiest-eggs

[Preety_India]

Stoneware is better than bone china lol. 

 

[Preety_India]

My pan is very sticky. 

And it gets really rough.