Mini Croissants with Tandoori Paneer Tikka and Nigella and Poppy

Hurry up with my croissants...I'm waiting for the flaky beginning of my day...Butter and the aroma of baking bread..,Saturday mornings cant get any better.Croissants and the promise of all things Parisian and flaky and buttery and yummy and Indian.Tandoori Paneer Tikka in my bread...These incidently were prepared for a high tea for someone who is allergic to egg...So here goes the easy way out.No EGG!Totally desi flavours...Desi sprinkled seeds of...

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Chinese Checkers and Fried rice and a first!!!

Samsung Galaxy GrandZ...New smart phone...Now I'm a babe with a new toy....A first-time for me ...Blogging from my new smart Phone...Now I understand why every one is so hung up on them...an extension of their persona's..Now only if my fingertips were half their size...Add captionTiny fingertips and tiny veggies. I love the coming of the fall in north India. I start with my Machiavelli mindset and try and stuff my potato loving hubby and son with...

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Sunday Dum Chicken Biryani and Cold beer

Milk is for babies. When you grow up you have to drink beer.Arnold Schwarzenegger Lazy ,lazy days of summer.And one holiday a week to break the monotony and drudgery of work and studies in general.There has to be some compensation.Some compensation that needs to be low effort to prep and high output on taste and presentation.A Sunday morning brunch that would be incomplete without a little chicken and some alcohol to help it all go...

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Ragi Bread-Low GI once more with Pistachios ,Garlic and Olive oil

“Good bread is the most fundamentally satisfying of all foods; and good bread with fresh butter, the greatest of feasts.” – James BeardAnd then if there is garlic and olive oil in the bread and and horror of horrors..pistachio nuts...Nuts?Nuts!Yes,nuts!In bread.So thank God for all ye faithful...Who have returned and reread my posts...I am not dead and decapitated like those zombies of the scary movies...I am just a teacher prepping for...

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