Thursday, May 17, 2012

Learning to unwind with company (mine!)

Just wanted to treat myself. And tada- a thought pops into my head. Who says you can't enjoy dinner alone?
So I whipped up a pasta- remotely Italian, mostly Indian, but very very tasty!

  • Boil water.
  • Pour 1 1/2 cup Elbow macaroni in bits and stir softly, occasionally, without upsetting the pasta.
  • Sort the veggie you need to cook- yellow and red bell pepper, babycorn, onion, tomato.
  • Stare at the veggies and feel slightly lazy to chop them.
  • Decide to use the 'mini chopper'. Yay!
  • Put all the veggies together and blitzzz.
  • Drain and cool macaroni.
  • Think about what to put in the base pasta paste.
  • Decide to wing it- courtesy my refrigerator.
  • Blend- olive oil, water, coriander, mint leaves, basil, chilies, grated cheese and walnuts (handful in the blender, handful in your mouth).
  • Heat olive oil. Add chilly garlic paste. Saute till you get the smell you get when your mum gets to cooking.
  • Add the blitzzed veggies. Stir. (clockwise cause your grandmother told your mother who told you, so just do it!)
  • Add the pasta paste (I like this alliteration).
  • Stir some more. Talk to duniya bhar ka log who decide to call at this inappropriate time of self-healing cooking.
  • Add macaroni
  • Taste...Get hit by the taste of the chilies.
  • Add salt.
  • Add cream. Taste. Add more cream.
  • Arrange on a plate with a mint leaf and a walnut. Not to forget some cheese!
  • Decide that it needs something more to feel like a healing meal...
  • Discover a rose wine hidden in a cupboard
  • :)
  • Drink, Eat, Catch some serials. Sleep like a log...Feel refreshed! 



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