Rajma Masala

I decided to try out making rajma masala from scratch instead of using the MTR Rajma Masala. I tried out the following recipe and it came out so good that i have decided that its the way i will make rajma masala from now on!

http://www.syvum.com/cgi/online/serve.cgi/recipes/srcpv19.tdf?0

UTD Dining Hall

The other day, our team decided to go to the UTD dining hall to celebrate the birthday of one of our team members. It was my first time there and it was quite an interesting experience.

The buffet costs $8.12 and certainly has a large variety of salads, deserts, soft drinks, juices, ice creams and fruits. On that day there was option of mexican food - tortillas, chicken, beef, beans, rice - i didnt enjoy the food too much and the lady who served the food was way too rude.

There were different varieties of pizza and pasta available and there was a section where there was steak, burgers, chicken nuggets, fries available.

I suppose for the price it is good. The mexican food is something i would avoid in future.

Humperdinks, Adisson

We stopped here for dinner once and the food was horrible. We have tried out food at two Humperdinks locations and both have disappointed. The service was also extremely slow apart from the fact that this is an expensive restaurant. I am definitely going back again

They are located at

Humperdinks. 3820 Belt Line Rd ADDISON, TX 75001

Jasmine , Addison, TX

We stopped at this chinese restaurant on the way back home from a friends place and were pleasantly surprised. The decor was good, the service excellent and the food worth it. It is definitely the best chinese food i have had. I tried out chicken schezuan and noodles and it was awesome. Nishanth loved his food too.

They are located at:

Jasmine
4002 Belt Line Road
Addison, TX 75244

Genghis Grill, Adisson, TX

We went to this location and what i liked about this place was it is not too crowded. The fare was good and the service good too.

They are located at:

4201 Beltline Road, Addison, TX 75001

Great Wraps, Grapevine Mills Mall, Grapevine, TX

I had a chipotle sandwich here and it tasted just great. My husband especially loves the seasoning that they give for the fries. Definitely worth a try!

Paneer Kakori

I tried out the Paneer Kakori recipe from the Best of Chicken and Paneer by Nita Mehta. It was certainly quite tasty although i suspect that when she meant two potatoes she meant the smaller potatoes and i used 2 quite large potatoes. I also realised that one has to crumble the paneer roughly otherwise you cant make out the taste of paneer.

I grilled these over our indoor grill. I feel baking them in the oven would have been better. For those of you who have access to her book, its definitely worth a try!

Ghee Rice

One fine day my husband asks me to make him some nice food and i decided to make ghee rice. Whenever i think of ghee rice, i think of Moghul Durbar in Bangalore and the bygone days more than a decade back where as a teenager i hung out with my friends and ghee rice was definitely one of the favourites on the moghul thali.

I tried this recipe out

http://www.syvum.com/cgi/online/serve.cgi/recipes/srcpr11.tdf?0

It came out good although not the Moghul Durbar style.. Definitely easy to make and worth trying

Egg Pulao

I was tired of the same old food i make and since its the end of the week, i happened to be low on groceries too. I was surfing the net for something new to try out that did not me to make a visit to the grocery store and came upon this recipe for egg pulao that turned out really well.

http://www.food.com/recipe/egg-pulao-69892

There were a few changes that i made though :

Reading the comments from the users i decided to add 2 1/2 cups of water and 1 cup of tinned coconut milk instead of the 2 1/2 cups of water and 2 tablespoons of coconut powder as given in the recipe and found that i had to add at least 1/2 a cup more in the last process to get the rice to cook totally. I suppose there are various factors that contribute to the rice cooking well and the heat may have played a role in evaporating the water faster. The brand of rice also makes a big difference.

I also observed that some of the comments mentioned that they found the pulao a little bland so i added a little more garam masala powder (1/2 tsp) and it turned out quite good. I had to do without the coriander leaves unfortunately.

It is definitely a recipe worth trying out!