Spicyandhra

Here is my entry to the Golden Couple Jai and Bee’s  Wonderful Click Event.

 I wouldn’t dare to miss my favourite events that are taking place around the blogging world and I love thinking and putting my otherwise dormant brain cells to work atleast once a month. I had couple of ideas but they fizzled out like melting snow.

Suddenly when I saw Noel  today stringing along his guitar with little fingers, My  brain cells started flashing and so here we are with my pictures of Noel’s guitar. I am quite impressed this time with my photographic skills as I tried very hard to get the strings in motion.

I felt as if I achieved that but sometimes you are just blinded away by your own enthusiasm so my dear readers please enlighten me if I am getting carried away here.

 This first picture is off to Bee’s event. I was in a dilemma which one to send as both dear hubby and noel are sound asleep now. I need to finish and wrap up tonite as I know that this weekend is going to be quite busy.

So I am just following my instincts and sending the first one.

Hope you all agree with my selection. Enjoy your weekend!!

Update:

In a rush, I actually forgot the fundamental concept of click event. Its food photography right??? Here we go again

I am sending this picture to Jai and Bee’s

Suddenly I feel as if I have just started blogging. Once you take a break and there you are struggling to even put words & thoughts together.

My other commitments are taking its toil on my blogging time and to squeeze in so many things is making me a bit slow these days.

I wonder and sometimes feel how we all so greatly share this amazing world of food blogging and so many determined, wonderful bloggers who religiously cook some amazing dishes and come up with superb writings which mesmerises you or take you into a very different world.

Rocky was off to India for couple of weeks which made my stepping into the kitchen a bit harder then expected and so this delay in posting anything new on my blog.

Now just like this refreshing drink, hoping that it refreshes my  kitchen and I start cooking again.

Till then let me quench my thirst with this drink which I am sending over to my friend Sig’s event.

Ingredients needed:

 1 glass Mango drink - I used Rubicon

2 Clementine wedges

Mint leaves

2 glasses Club Soda

Mix mango juice and soda well and pour into cocktail glasses. Serve with a wedge of clementine and mint leaves.

We were impressed with the minty mango with a tangy clementine to sublime your senses.

Things at home and work are going at such a rapid pace, that I am not even getting time to have a nice cuppa and be five minutes on my own. I love blogging and would love to read about  dear fellow bloggers’ wonderful creations.

Never was I so tied up that I haven’t had any decent time to enjoy reading and blogging.

My new novels were left unturned, my cooking magazines are still at my bedside and my drafts are piling up.

I am relying on my one pot dishes more often then I imagined with my time being spent elsewhere.  Yesterday I made Palak Parathas which were just a melt in the mouth with a tinkling taste of spice, Today I dished up this Prawns biryani, which also went so well that I turn to this comfort dish every now and then.

Prawns: fresh ones
Ginger garlic paste: 2 tbsp
Onion : 2
Chillies: 4
Garam masala: 1 tbsp
Coriander powder: 1 tbsp
Bay leaves: 2
Cinnamon stick: 1
Cardemom : 2
Cloves: 2
Cashewnuts: 10 to 12
Basmati Rice: 3 cups
Chilli powder
Turmeric

Take oil in a heavy bottomed vessel, and fry bayleaves, cinnamon, cloves and cardamoms for couple of mins, then add I onion and chillies and fry until the onions are golden in color, then add the masalas, prawns, chilli powder, turmeric and salt and cook for 10 min. No need to add water at this time.

Now add rice and mix it well and add 3 and ½ to 4 glasses of water and close it with a lid.
Try to cook in medium heat so that the rice at the bottom of the vessel doesn’t get burnt.

Garnish with fried cashewnuts, coriander leaves and onions.  Serve on its own or with any raitha.