Spinach-Potato Sandwich - Blog Hop Wednesday – ver 2.0 Series #15

Spinach-Potato Sandwich - Blog Hop Wednesday – ver 2.0 Series #15:

I feel great to participate in Blog Hop Wednesday ver 2.0 15^th Series and this time I was paired with Roshan of Roshan Cucina. 

Blog Hop Wednesday is a monthly event which happens on every 2^nd Wednesday of the month. Participant would be paired with one more participant and we need to select, cook and link it to the event.

Roshan started blogging since June 2010 and as of today she has got 136 varieties of recipes. She cooks mainly from Kerala, which is also called as God’s own country. In Kerala dishes mainly you will see milk, coconut either in sweet or in savory dishes. I selected out a sandwich dish which made my child and his friends, my sister-in-law and my neighbor to say great after eating the sandwich. This sandwich is called as Spinach-Potato Sandwich.

Ingredients:

Spinach – 20 leaves (I used palak)

Potato – 1 medium

Onion – 1 medium

Milk – ½ cup

Oil – 2 tbsp

All purpose Flour – 1 tbsp

Salt to taste

Pepper Powder – 2 tsp

Bread Slices – 10

Method:

Cut potatoes into small cubes and leave it in hot oil for 7 minutes to turn them crispy.

Remove the cubes and add chopped onion pieces and washed spinach and fry them till onion turns translucent and spinach becomes soft

Add all purpose flour to the above mixture and still well till the raw smell goes

Add milk to the mixture and mix it well, a creamy consistency is formed

 

Finally add salt, pepper powder mix well and after a minute add crispy potato cubes and stir it well

 

Take 2 bread slices put ghee on both sides and slightly roast it using frying pan or dosa tawa

Take one roasted bread slice and spread the spinach potato mixture on top of it

Place other roasted bread slice on top of this one

Prepare the remaining bread slices in the same way

Squeeze tomato ketchup on it (optional as children asked for it) and serve it 

Roshan has selected dates kheer from my blog and her version is here.

Submitting this to Blog Hop Wednesday hosted by Radhika on her blog, Tickling Palates

Submitting this also to:

DISH IT OUT AND BREAD BRUGER VEG @ Foodies' Nest authored by Kokila.

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Salute to all women on Women's Day

Salute to all women on Women's Day:

*Why God Created Woman from Man’s Rib*

Source of poem: journalynne blog

This post is dedicated to my mom, mother-in-law, my siblings, my cousin and to all other women blog readers.

God created Man by a dust but, He created woman from a rib of man. The below poem answers why:

Vani - MIL

“When I created the heavens and the earth, I spoke them into being. When I created man, I formed him from the dust of the Earth and breathed life into his nostrils. But you, woman, I fashioned after I breathed the breath of life into man because your nostrils are too delicate. I allowed a deep sleep to come over him so I could patiently and perfectly fashion you. Man was put to sleep so that he could not interfere with the creativity. From one bone I fashioned you. I chose the bone that protects man’s life. I chose the rib,
which protects his heart and lungs and supports him, as you are meant to do.”

“Around this one bone I shaped you. I modeled you. I created you perfectly and beautifully. Your characteristics are as the rib, strong yet delicate and fragile. You provide protection for the most delicate organ in man, his heart. His heart is the center of his being; his lungs hold the breath of life. The rib cage will allow itself to be broken before it will allow damage to the heart. Support man as the rib cage supports the body.”

Uday, Lakshmi, Nag - SILs

“You were not taken from his feet, to be under him, nor were you taken from his head, to be above him. You were taken from his side, to stand beside him and be held close to his side. You are my perfect angel. You are my beautiful little girl. You have grown to be a splendid woman of excellence, and my eyes fill when I see the virtue in your heart. Your eyes: don’t change them. Your lips: how lovely when they part in prayer. Your nose so perfect in form, your hands so gentle to touch. I’ve caressed your face in your deepest sleep;
I’ve held your heart close to mine. Of all that lives and breathes, you are the most like me.”

Covansys Friends

“Adam walked with me in the cool of the day and yet he was lonely. He could not see me or touch me. He could only feel me. So everything I wanted Adam to share and experience with me, I fashioned in you: my holiness, my strength, my purity, my love, my protection and support. You are special because you are the extension of me.”

NDS Friends (few)

“Man represents my image, woman – my emotions. Together, you represent the totality of God. So man: treat woman well. Love her, respect her, for she is fragile. In hurting her, you hurt me. What you do to her, you do to me. In crushing her, you only damage your own heart, the heart of your Father and the heart of her Father. Woman, support man. In humility, show him the power of emotion I have given you. In gentle quietness show your strength. In love, show him that you are the rib that protects his inner self.” 

Mom, Aunts, Sisters and SIL

NDS Friend

My Food Commenter

Women is compared to pink color and that's the reason I have put up mixture of pink, red and maroon. As different shades of pink is not visible clearly.

To celebrate this occasion I am presenting a simple food - pazham nurruku (kerala food).

Source of this recipe: Roshan's Cucina

Cousin - Star Jan'12

Ingredients:

Banana - 2

Sugar Syrup - 1/2 cup

Butter / Ghee - 1 tbsp

Method:

Chop banana of 1" inch with its skin

Steam it for 2 minutes in oven (till its half done)

Pour 8 to 10 sugar sachets (small) in little water

Put it in oven and allow it to get sugar syrup

After 8 minutes I got sugar syrup

Immerse steamed and chopped bananas into this sugar syrup and keep it in oven for 2 minutes

Remove it from oven mix it with butter and put it again in oven for 2 minutes
Allow it to cool

Submitting this to:

Women's Day Event Announcement and Giveaway at Sara's Corner 

(Duration: March 7th to March 31st)

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5 Star Chocolate (home made)

5 Star Chocolate (home made):

I brought a condensed milk, 15 days back and was not sure what can I make out from that. I turned around and saw they had given very interesting recipe called "Chocolate Walnut" and the key thing was it could be done in 10 minutes. Last Saturday afternoon I planned to do this. But I did not have walnuts :( so thought of using cashewnuts instead of it.

I still had Icing Sugar which I brought it about a month's back in a good condition.

Ingredients:

Dark Chocolate - 4 pieces

Milk - 2 tsp (optional because dark chocolate will have little bitter taste instead you can use milk chocolate)

Butter - 1  tsp
Icing Sugar -50 gms

Condensed Milk (Milkmaid) - 1 tin
Cashewnuts (roasted) - 6 (made into quarters)

 
Method:
Melt dark chocolate, milk and butter in a kadai.
Add icing sugar to the above melted mixture
Add condensed milk little by little by keeping completely stirring
Add the roasted cashewnuts and keep stirring still you get a chocolate mass
Once done pour it into the plate / vessel which has a butter paper on it
Allow it to dry for sometime and keep it in deep freezer
Remove it after 3 to 4 hours or once it is completely dried and serve it to the kids


Comments:
After it was dried I checked the quantity the chocolate resembled to a 5 star means when you start eating 5 star, in between you can feel the chocolate pulls.





But after eating this chocolate my sister-in-law commented that the taste was like Diary Silk.

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Star - January 2012

January 2012:

This charming, young, dynamic lady is called as Saraswathi Iyer who was born and brought up in Bangalore currently settled in Singapore with her lovely family. Today she is a mom of 3.5 years old son.

Saraswathi was my first inspiration to write my blog. I subscribed to her blog  - simplysara07 thro' email and peeped each post to learn how we do cooking, which I used to do only at times after marriage for first few years. 

She has been blogging since 2007 but passively and became active from 2008, i guess I am sure of the dates. Currently, she manages this blog with her wide range of vegetarian traditional Indian and International cooking with Baking recipes too. She has written more than 400 posts in her blog. While her other blog Sara's Events and Roundups is about events run on her blogs and other blogs (who intimates her)

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It gives me a great pleasure to thank her as Star of my blog for this month Jan 2012, hence passing this lovely award to her. No rules set up to the award.

She has also been featured in Nithu’s Kitchen in Today’s guest page.

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