Recipes for beginners

Here's begining with a simple starter

Cream of Mushroom soup

Ingredients: (serves 6 people)

Button Mushrooms – 400 gms
Potatoes – 2 (Medium sized)
Onions – 2 (Medium sized)
Milk, water – according to consistency required

Method:
1. Cut Mushrooms, onions and peel and cut potatoes.
2. Set aside a little of the cut mushrooms to add at the end.
3. Pressure cook the rest of the mushrooms, onions and potatoes along with very little water (add only a little water as the mushrooms themselves will give out water).
4. After it cooks, blend in a mixer till almost smooth.
5. Boil the mixture with milk. Add the remaining cut mushrooms.
6. Add salt and pepper to taste.

Make way, our blog is born!!

Engineering done, all of us are embarking on a whole new journey, some of us to work, the rest of us to continue with our formal education. Whatever it is we are doing professionally, one thing will be the same with all of us - We need to cook!!! No more of mom’s delicious cuisines prepared with that touch of love. Nothing can substitute mom’s cooking but we can do our best by borrowing our favorite and easy recipes of hers.

We decided to start this blog to list simple and delicious recipes that can be done quickly with no fuss. They’ve all been tried and tested :-) Please feel free to add your favorite recipes that you have tried and tested. Try to add the number of people that the quantity you have specified will serve. Send it in to one of us. And feel free to post your comments on each recipe and on ways we can improve this blog.

Waiting to hear from you,
Rama & Divya

Here’s a small legend that will help…

Tsp – teaspoon
Tbsp – table spoon
C – cup

Here’s a translation of some of the Indian masalas from English to Tamil

Ainseed – perumjeerakam
Asofoetida – perunkayam
Bay leaf – Biriyani or Birinj ilai
Bengal gram – pacchai kadalai
Black gram – Ulunthu
Cardamom – Elakkai
Cinnamon – Pattai
Cloves – Kirambu
Corriander seeds – Kothamalli seeds
Cumin seeds – Jeeragam
Fenugreek – Venthayam (methi)
Mustard – Kadugu
Nutmeg – Jadhikkai
Pepper – Milagu
Poppy seeds – Khasa Khasa
Semolina – Pattana ravai
Sesame seeds – Ellu
Saffron – Kumkuma poo
Tamarind – Puli
Turmeric – Manjal