Egg Curry

Though I'm a vegetarian, my dad used to make me and my brother eat eggs as they are high in protein content, and that's how I still like eating omelettes and rush to IHOP when the eggs-pancake urge builds to a crescendo:) Well, there's one more egg recipe that I really enjoy, and that's the Egg Curry. Here's how I make it, and if my husband, who's actually a food critic, loves it, I'm sure you will too.

Ingredients
4-5 eggs- boiled
Onion- 1 big, chopped finely
Tomato puree- 1 medium-sized cup
Coconut Milk - half can
Spices - Ginger-garlic paste, salt, red chilli powder and lemon juice to taste, 2-3 bay leaves, turmeric-1 tsp, cumin seeds, garam masala powder-1 tsp
Oil - 2 tbsp
Chopped coriander to garnish

Method
Boil the eggs and keep them aside to cool.

Take a saucepan, add some oil, cumin seeds, bay leaves and the ginger-garlic paste. Saute for some time. Then add the chopped onions and fry till golden pink. Now add in the tomato puree and a little water and saute over medium flame for 5-7 mins.

Add the remaining spices- turmeric and red chilli powder, garam masala, and salt, and finally add the coconut milk. Keep stirring continuously as you add the milk, and increase the flame a bit. Once it starts boiling, lower the flame and cook covered for some time.

Cut each egg into 4 pieces (or halves if you like big pieces). Remove the yolk from the centre and mix with the curry. Now put the eggs in a serving dish and pour the curry on the top.

If you are using a crock pot for the gravy, saute the onions in the pan then add all the ingredients along with the tomato puree into the pot. Add the spices and finally the coconut milk and let it cook for a couple hours.

Garnish your Spicy Egg Curry with chopped coariander and serve hot with Jeera Rice or Paneer Parathas!!!

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Toastabags and Holy Toasts

Toaster is a gadget most of us use everyday in our daily lives, and now if I tell you that you can convert your toaster into a sandwich-maker, would you be kind enough to buy me lunch? And I also have something to kick-start your day in the divine presence of God, literally!!

The first gadget is ToastaBag, which is a zip-lock bag that can take in your bread, cheese and veggies, goes right inside your toaste, and voila! what comes out is a freshly-baked toasted sandwich! You can also cook pizza, bagels, pitta bread, waffles, chapattis, ciabatta, apple turnovers and much, much more! And all for under $15!! The bag can be reused for at least 300 times...wow, that's a catch for the moms, execs and the kids that are always on the go! (photos courtesy latestbuy.com )

The other mind-boggling thing that I came across on my path to seek the Holy Grail was the "Holy Toast". As you can see below, now you no longer need to practice meditation and concentration, nor wait for a miracle to try to witness God's presence. Just press your bread into the mould, pop it into a toaster and watch your toast turn into an impression of your faith. Personally, I don't know whether to call it "fascinating" or "weird", for I don't think I need such a blatant expression of my piety and faith, and I wouldn't even dream of buying something like this. But I would definitely like to hear your comments and ideas.

I hope you've enjoyed reading about these 2 new discoveries. Again, keep your feedback coming in the form of comments, and I promise to keep sharing more such inventions with you!! Check out more cool kitchen contraption under "Gagdets"

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Just Specs or Sushi Specs???

21st century for sure is a tech-century, and gizmos and gadgets are the talk of the day. People are getting busier by the day, there's no time to sit and eat, relax and enjoy the savour of your food, and the talented inventors of the world are helping make life so "trendy and simple", that the gap between savouring and satisfying your hunger has grown even large.... One such cool gadget that I recently read about is "Sushi-specs", yup, you heard me right!! A German designer named Ralph Anderl invented lightweight stainless steel frames with temples (the arms) that detach to become chopsticks (photo courtesy law.harvard.edu). And those who aren't adept at using chopsticks can have forks attached as an alternative !!! After you are finished eating, you can re-attach the chopstics back to your glasses with screws. Hmmmm....And these specs have created a havoc in US, Japan and Europe, even with their high price tags of $300-$400. Wow, and I thought spending $500 on the I-phone would be an indulgence! But maybe not many people think like me.

I'm sure pretty soon this will be enhanced to act as spoon/knife and fork all in one, totally eradicating the need of silverware from the restaurants! What do you say??!! Would you be willing to buy one of those?? And how would you manage to see and eat the food if you had to remove your specs???:) Maybe the designer forgot to consider the alternative that people actually wear specs because they need it, not because wearing plain glasses is the "in thing", huh!!??

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