Valentine’s Day Food Festival

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For Valentine’s Day food festival three of my beautiful loving friend bring their favorite recipes for you. So now I present three tasty, appetizing, scrumptious, yummy, luscious, delectable, mouthwatering recipes back to back just for you. I am taking this opportunity to thank Heavenly Housewife, Catherine and Claudia for sharing their wonderful appealing kitchen creations with us.
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Martha Stewart’s Rose Water Sandwich Cookies

Grilled Chicken with Grilled Eggplant

Choco PB Dulce frozen pie no bake

Delicious cookies, pies, grilled chicken will make your dinner table rock. Also comeback for my Valentine's Day special post and those of my friend who want to submit their Valentine's Day super delicious recipes you can still do so, e-mail your link or submit it in your comments and be the part of the celebration.
Emmet Fox says -If you could only love enough, you could be the most powerful person in the world. So love a lot and feel the power of love not for a day but for the whole life.

Be Happy And Stay Healthy.

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Delicious Tomato Poppy Delight

I am celebrating Valentine’s day food festival in my blog. I am inviting all my blogging friends to  submit your guest post about your favorite Valentine’s Day recipe and I will post it to my blog. For the full month of February we will all celebrate the season of love in my blog. Love is the miracle cure and now science too have proved that when you are in love you produce" love hormone" Oxytocin which act as stress buster,increases immunity to repair, heal, and restore faster,faster wound healing,lowers blood pressure,protects against heart disease, reduces cravings and addictions, eases depression. So be in love. Today I will share a crazy love story with you hope you will like it!
Tomato and Poppy was good friend since child hood. As they grow up childhood friendship turned into unspoken love. Now tomato has to go to earn his living in a different city. Young handsome fresh tough tomato was everyone’s favorite and he was Mr. Charming for every party whether it be lunch or dinner. In this unknown city a sweet little black girl Nigella fall in love with Tomato. A party charmer Tomato never knew he will soon be under a critical situation where he has to choose between his child hood love Poppy and this new innocent love Nigella. But hard time came soon and the situation of sharp knife cut Tomato into pieces. Where Poppy on the other city was nurturing her good soul and day by day she is turning into a smooth paste of love and kindness. Nigella understood that Tomato was never meant for her so she talked with hot and happening rock star friend of her Green chili and told they only can spice up this love story and bring it to a happy ending with their other two friends Salt and Oil. So all of the four conspire to bring them together. They ask frying pan and her lid if they are willing to participate in this heart winning play or not. They agreed graciously. Nigella called Tomato and Poppy to take the final decision. Now it’s time for the climax and to put the stage on fire. Oil dripped into the pan it’s hot and Nigella knew yes it is the perfect time to plunge in. So Nigella plunged into hot oil. And Green chilly also slipped in. Poppy thought Nigella is committing suicide and couldn’t stay back and she too jumped. She try to bring back Nigella but after a minute roaming in the hot Oil she could not do so now she started screaming and asked Tomato for help. Tomato was talking with Salt nearby and when they saw situation is getting out of hand they jumped into the hot oil. Now it’s the work of the lid to give this romance a final touch. So she stayed there for a few minutes, haha… you can put all your fancy imagination of what happened within but when lid was off we saw Tomato and Poppy mingle together as made for each other couple and Nigella and Green chilly was smiling all around where as Oil and Salt was happy within to bring two beloved together. This is the delicious love story of Tomato And Poppy.
If it seems hard to find the recipe from this crazy love story then note the ingredients and procedure.
Ingredients:

Tough tomatoes   2 big chopped
Poppy seed paste  2 heaping table spoon
Nigella sativa    1/8 tea spoon
Green chilly      1 chopped
Salt              to taste
Vegetable Oil     11/2 table spoon

Procedure:
Heat oil in a pan . Then add the nigella sativa and choppped green chilly . As they splutter add the poppy paste stir for a few second carefully so that you don't burn the mixture. Now add chopped tomatoes and salt. Stir and cover the lid let it cook for five minutes in slow flame. Now take off the lid and stir until all the juices dried up and oil comes out. This delicious tangy tomato poppy go well with steamed rice or bread roll or if in hurry you can use it for your sandwich stuffing. I hope you will love this recipe.
I have created A Valentine’s day special page for squidoo name – Let the reason be love. I hope you will love the page. I am waiting for your views and special recipes.
Be Happy And Stay Healthy.
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Cilantro Fritters With Mint Dip

Last Saturday my Dida ( Granny) visited us and shared a time tested recipe from her kitchen which my Dadu (Grandpa) love the most. My Dadu left us for almost 18 years ago but whenever we ask for some recipes my Dida bring out from her magic box something which my Dadu loved. I am moved to see a magic chemistry that keep them in a deep loving relationship even when one left for an eternal journey.
In today’s world when we are busy accumulating material things for quick satisfaction, when love itself is commercialized do you think that we can save real love and if so share your thoughts. While you are giving this topic your serious thoughts fry some cilantro fritters and dip them in mint dip and I am sure you will have some clear and fresh thoughts. Take a look on the recipe-

Ingredients:

Fresh cilantro   1 bowl chopped
All purpose flour  1/2  cup
Rice flour               1/2 cup
Salt  and pepper  to taste
Water     1/3 cup
Sunflower/ vegetable oil  - to deep fry
Mint  Dip
Greek yoghurt / or hung yoghurt – 1/2  cup
Fresh mint leaves    hand full chopped
Sugar  1/2  tea spoon (optional)
Salt   to taste

Procedure:
In a big bowl take all purpose flour, rice flour, salt, pepper, chopped cilantro mix well. Now add water little by little so that it makes a thick and tight mixture. Heat oil in a pan. When the oil is hot enough scoop out large spoonful of the cilantro mixture and place gently in the pan. Let it cook till each cilantro fritters is brown both side. Carefully remove fritters and place on a paper towel-lined plate to remove excess oil. Now in a bowl mix all ingredients for mint dip and then serve the cilantro fritters hot with mint dip. Relish this crunchy flavorful fritters with fresh mint dip and think that how we can save true love and this world with true love!

Be Happy And Stay Healthy.
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Cauliflower Orangey

Today I want to share with you a very delicious recipe which my Mom prepared for us this weekend and I don’t know it is my Mom’s special touch or itself the dish is so tasty, that it spread divine warmth in a chilled winter night .
Ingredients:

Cauliflower    1 medium cut into bite size florets
Bay leaves     1 
Cardamom       2 whole
Onion paste    1 heaping spoon
Ginger garlic paste  1 tea spoon
Cayenne  powder  1/2  teaspoon
Orange juice     1/2  cup
Orange pulp      3 to 4
Clarified butter/ butter  1 table spoon
Sunflower Oil    1 to  2 table spoon
Salt             to taste

Procedure:

First let me tell you how to bring out the pulp from orange to add in this recipe. Hold the orange gently in your palm. Find the edge of a segment, where the pulp meets the membrane, and slice along this so that the pulp is separated from the membrane. Do this on both sides of the segment so you are cutting a long v-shape to completely free the segment from its membrane sheath. Do this carefully to avoid cutting yourself. Continue this process until all you have left is a “skeleton” of the membranes and a bowl full of small, juicy orange crescents. There should be no white parts or membrane on these crescents.
Take a pan put oil in it and then stir fry the cauliflower so they are half cooked. Now put off the flame . Mom cooked this on clarified butter but you can use butter or diet butter according to your access and need because with taste your health is also your first priority , yes taste will differ but such dish are a hit in whatever cooking medium you use.
Now take pan heat clarified butter in it then add crushed cardamom add with bay leaves. Then add the onion paste, ginger paste, garlic paste stir for few second then add the half cooked cauliflower, cayenne powder, salt. Add the orange juice (if the orange juice is tart add 1/4 tea spoon of sugar) little by little while you stir the whole thing. Cover the lid and cook for a minute when the cauliflower is cooked but bit crunchy then add those small juicy orange crescent. Mix with soft hand and your delicious cauliflower orangey is ready. Have it with your favorite bread roll, I have it with naan paratha and trust me the taste is so satisfying and flavorful that you will definitely catch some sweet dreams that night. Share your dreams if the formula works and also let me know how you like this cauliflower orangey and what addition and alteration you make according to your taste.
Be Happy And Stay Healthy.
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Delicious Green Veggies With Fresh Dill

Another fresh new year is here… to live , to love and laugh and to work for the best. For all this we need to keep our body fit and mind sound. It is also the time to unload all those calories from our system that we merrily chew down during holidays(ha ha). It’s time to turn to those healthy foods. Fresh green vegetable are like good friends who came to rescue when you feel a slight guilt for all those sinful delights. So last night I cooked some green vegetables with fresh dill leaves and enjoyed a delicious healthy dinner which I would love to share with you.
Ingredients:

Cauliflower or broccoli 1 small cut into bite size florets
Baby potato     8 to 10 boiled
Carrots         1/2 cup  julienned
Red yellow and green pepper  1  each julienned
French  beans  6 to 8  (top and tail the beans)
Green peas     ½ cup
Garlic     3 to 4 cloves crushed
Olive oil  2 table spoon
Lemon zest  1/2  tea spoon
Lemon juice  1 tea spoon
Fresh dill leaves   hand full chopped 
Salt and pepper  to taste 

Procedure:
For this plate of mixed vegetable I stir fried the garlic in olive oil till the aroma filled the air then add cauliflower or broccoli ( you can use both) and French beans. Cover the pan with a lid so that this vegetable get a cooked for a minute then add all the other vegetables, salt and pepper then turn and toss till the vegetables are cooked but still crunchy. Then add the boiled potato, lemon juice , lemon zest and the fresh dill leaves and mix well. Adjust seasoning and my delicious stir fried green vegetable is ready to serve. I have it with garlic bread, you can have it with any bread roll of your choice and you feel healthy and complete with this colorful savory plate.
Be Happy And Stay Healthy.
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