Easy Pancake, and assorted Bread variations !!!

My mom used to make this easy pancake, to feed our hungry stomach's after school...mixing Maida (flour), one egg, sugar amd milk to form a loose batter, and make them as dosa's on a flat tava. Sorry, no snaps of it..but there's something very similar done by Jeena here..
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This still remains a fav. of mine to date, so had it made for an evening snack. As usual the story, the batter bowl still remaind unfinished, so the next day..its variations begin to take form.
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Type I : Bread Toast :
Cover the bread in the batter, and off to a non-stick pan to toast, lightly spraying the pan with cooking oil. Cut as triangles.
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Type II : Bread Sticks :
Added seasame to the pancake mix, coated it over...and thats where my slim slim vermicilli came to action!
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Broke it down as tiny pieces and cover the bread with it. Off to shallow fry, with crushed sugar on top.

Type III : Bread Kunaffa :

Cut the bread as squares, to the panckae mix, added some instant coffee (didnt have cocoa powder, or anything related to chocolate at that time, but wanted to give it a choco-touch..so settled in for coffee, something similar atleast...)

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...that's it....my Bread Kunaffa !!!...trust me, you see all those delicious looking sweets in the market...go wondering how in the world are they done....but, a little bit of observation, interest and creativity...you can come up with something entirely new by urselves, even with the simplest of ingredients..with the least effort too !!!!

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Hope you all liked my extra simple snack...great way to fool your kids n hubby !!, and guests too!!!

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Pizzas-de-assorted !!!

Craving for Pizza ????...craving for some fun and excitement in your lab ???
There you gooo !!

These are my mini-pizza's, but without the usual pizz base...
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Too lazy to bake the base, alright, there's the burger buns for your rescue...!..An easy readymade softy pizza base,..just slice a bun into two, apply tomato/pizza sauce onto the base, and let your creativity fly with the ingredients!!!
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Pizza No I : Egg Pizza ...heard that before?..I haven't...

Sliced quail eggs, with chopped spring onions, dash of salt and pepper, scraped cheese ....

straight to the Microwave on 40% Power for 2 minutes (per Piece)

Pizza No II, Sausage Pizza (for a Pepperoni effect)

I dont have to say more, should I ???

Pizza No III, ...Extra-Spicy Super Supreme (my version, that is !)...a total mix ...chicken "scraps", mushroom, baby corn, bell pepper, tomato, anything that i could lay my hand on...with a lavish dash of pepper, and dry-parsley.

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and finally, my true baby...A Fruit Pizza !!!.....

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....never have seen one in any other blogs, so just takes the default patent for it...

All the veggies and non's get replaced by grapes, tiny pieces of mango, pinepple, apple, banana...see the difference..its lovely!!!

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now thats what experimenting is all about, after all !!!

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This is my contribution to the MEC -Snacks. Hope you all liked by Quickie Pizzas.

UPDATE: I am sending this also off to the Leftover Tuesday's event.

Spaghetti nest, for a rest....

Jai and bee of Jugalbandi has come up with this interesting photography event with this month theme being Eggs. At first place, the thought goes to egg inside a nest, but where in this desert-country-flat building of mine, as I gonna find some hay straws and stuff???

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Well....there was no choice to that, but I could rather come up with something, similar to a nest!!!

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First things first...NO LOGICAL THOUGHTS ON THIS SNAP PLEASE!!!

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Anyone out there, if have wondered,..gosh!..how did that bird land up with such huge an egg....hee hee...look closely at the eyes of the bird. Think a mother bird to look at its egg that way???...Naaeeehh ..!!

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Its an intruder!!...

.The mother quail is right after me, for stealing her other baby eggs for the omlette event, the brainbaby of Kanchana, of Married to a Desi...cruel me!!

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Hope the images just speaks the preparation.

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Usually, I cook spaghetti the whole pack with salt, ginger garlic paste, soya sauce and chillie sauce, a portion of it is added with sliced veggies and stuff, as a veg-version, couple of days later, it goes with non'es, to be served as a mixed plate.

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As always the story, a portion of the cooked spaghetti gets left behind, not the least sufficient to make a serving, and hence this time, ended up as shown.

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Curl the spaghetti around a wooden fork onto a paper cup.( I used two cups together for better stability), spread it a bit to fill in the cup, place a boiled quail egg in the centre, sprinkle pepper powder on top og the egg and the nest, cover the edges of the cup with cilantro leaves..and off for a presentation!

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Keeping the mother bird next to the egg, or an intruder ....is all upto you.

Thats the pack I had used, the heart-healthy, whole grain wheat organic brand, and hence this post also goes to the WYF-Diet Food event by Hima of SnackORama.

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At this point, I go back to our childhood Christmas time, when we make cribs at home...many years back, one of our older cousin brother used to make one for us, and he used to cut patches of a green grass from our "neighbour's" backyard, for the original look for the crib. ..

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Years passed, he left to the Gulf, and it was upto me and my brother to do it. By that time, our father passed a law of the crib to be placed in our home-patio, not outdoors, ..as our dogs(3 of them!!) , to our greatest horror, very merrily used to make the grass bed their "mattress" each night, and Mother Mary and Baby Jesus would be at different poles of the garden!!!

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So, the crib took it place from then on indoors, the green gress gets replaced by straw, next year it is replaced by paper scraps, and the next year..its just green felt paper to lay the small figurines !!!

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One of my brothers' friend had come home the day we were making the crib, and commented "Ohh, your Jesus, is laid on paper!!!...ours is on Plywood"!!!

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Here, from a twig-straw nest..the egg gets laid on a Spaghetti nest............. Happy nesting!!!

Update : This is also my entry to the Presto Pasta Nights event, by Ruth of 4everykitchen.

WBB #15, Entry3: Veg-subji..the Egg Comforter

The egg-white protects the yolk from "chill, chill...just chill" and keeps it comfy...but what happens when the white itself fells cold???

Not to forget the clauses, that this egg was born to a Kuwaiti-mother-hen (the desert breed), and has been kept in freezer that chills up to that level of temperatures than it could ever imagine.

Go ahead, get the eggis some cover...!!!

I hope now you get what the name stands for ..

Another of my leftover remake.Trust me, what ever I prepare tends to stay to the highest level of simplicity in ingredients, to maintain the highest level of easiness in accessing these accessories during the making, so as to make up for my highest level of laziness in typing it all out!!!!....Hoooffff

This Subji had in it, cut-pieces of cauliflower, carrots, potatoes, green peas..sauted in oil with ginger, garlic(a lotttt), green chillies, pepper,salt and turmeric powder. Khalllaaas....done. Nothing more, nothing less. (and of course, mustard seeds as a "Default" starter ingredient in any mallu recipie..same here.

And I suppose, I dont have to speak out much as to what happened to the little bit that was left over. Make few slits on the egg. cover it with the mix, coat in bread-crumps, and off to fry.

Now that is one great treat to the egg-white for protecting the yolk soo mindfully, from the harsh world outside.

(Tip of the day : The work is more than simple, if you use a Quail egg instead of an ordinary one..as its much easy to manipulate. I got soo bugged up trying to coat a huge egg, that I lost all my interest in this making, and took a snap of the done byproduct, just because I had to put in lot of effort to see that the finished egg stays as one piece. )

This is my third entry into the Leftover Remake event behing hosted by Nandita of The Saffron-Trail.

Not to forget..have it hot...with ketchup, ofcourse. Enjoy!!

Meen pollichathu...the NRI version !!!!

Have you guys ever wondered what would be the inner feeling of a fish, who is aware that its going to turn into a fry?..a chicken, waiting for it to be broiled in a rotiserrie ......oooouuuuuhhhh!!! (not the way to start a food blog..isnt it...I am being devilish!)

Saw the post by Nags and Mishmash on this recipie, and had been longing to try it out ever since..but alas!!..just didn't have the basic infrastructure to go forward with it...you neither have a Karimeen(Pearl-spot), nor the plantain leaf (vaaya-ela)!!

You can never even think of a "Meen pollichathu" without these. But as it was Onam season all in the air for Mallus lately, and as a famous quote goes for all keralites..."Ullathu kondu Onam polae"..(just to mean -Make the best of what you've got), decided to experiment with the next best available resource....the only fish that was available in my freezer(dont know what its called)....and ofcourse, Alluminium foil !!!! (Thats what experiementing is all about, isn't it).

(You make a decision to do something, and nothing's gonna hold you back!!!!)

I had no idea how its gonna turn out to be..as I didn't know for how long I should grill the fish and so, to be on the safer side, followed the recipie by Mishmash, of grilling the fish after lightly frying in oil. (Atleast, the fish will stay cook, and be still edible..if my attempt turns out to be a bumper flop).

Here is my version of Meen Pollichathu, with a twist...!!!

(God bless you, Jack and Rose....!!! I am sorry I had to do this to you...but, thats what cooking non-veg is all to mankind)