Eggless Lemon Cake

Ingredients:

Maida - 1 and 1/2 cups
Thick Curd - 1 cup
Sugar - 1 cup
Baking soda - 1/2 tsp
Baking powder - 1 1/4 tsp
Cooking oil - 1/2 cup
Vanilla essence - 1 tsp
Lemon Juice of 1 medium sized lemon or lime.

Preparation Method:

• Sieve maida keep aside.
• Put sugar and curd in a mixing bowl and mix until sugar dissolves completely. Add baking powder, baking soda to the creamed mixture and mix well.
• Leave aside for 15 mins and you can see the bubbles appearing. Now add vanilla essence,cooking oil,lemon juice and mix well.
• Next slowly add maida in portions at a time and blend with wet ingredients. Beat well with a whipper until creamy and thick.
• Preheat oven to 200 deg C for 10mins.Meanwhile greese the baking tray and pour the mixture into it.
• Bake in preheated oven at 200 degree C for 10 mins, then reduce temperature to 180 deg C and bake it for 25-30 mins.
• Then enjoy the perfect eggless cake.

Icing and decoration:
Icing can be done in two ways
1. Icing sugar + water
2. Icing sugar + butter.

1. Icing sugar + water:
Take 4 tbspn of Icing sugar and add some water(about 3 tspn). Mix well till you get the right consistency. then spread on the cake. Mix 1-2 drops of food colour in the remaining icing and make decorations.

2. Icing sugar + Butter:

Take 4 tbspn of Icing sugar and add some butter(about 3 tspn at room temp. you can add some water as well). Mix well till you get the right consistency. then spread on the cake. Mix 1-2 drops of food colour in the remaining icing and make decorations.

Non-Onion-Garlic Mixed Vegetable Curry

Ingredients:

Vegetables of your choice(Fresh Peas, Beans, Potato, Panner, Capsicum, Cauliflower )– all together 2 cup Cleaned and boiled 

Tomatoes- 4
Garam masala- 1 tspn
Red chilli powder- ½ to 1 tspn
Turmeric- ¼ tspn
Salt to taste
Oil – 3 tbspn
Cumin seeds- 1 tspn
Freash Cream or Milk -1/4 cup

Cooking Method:

• Grind tomatoes in a blender to make paste. Keep it aside now.
• Heat oil in a pan. Add Cumin seeds, let them splutter.
• Add tomato paste. Mix it well and cover the pan and cook for about 10 min or till all the tomato smell is gone.
• Then add all the powders. That is Garam masala, Red chilli powder, Turmeric and mix well. 
• Add all boiled vegetables and cream/milk, mix well and cook till for about 10 min or oil comes out of the gravy.If the gravy is sour just add 1/2 tspn sugar.
• Garnish with coriender and serve hot.

Serving Suggestion:

Serve hot with chapatti or puri.

Non-Onion-Garlic Peas Panner / Matar Panner

Ingredients:

Fresh Peas – 1 cup

Paneer- 200 grms(cut into small cubes)

Tomatoes- 4
Garam masala- 1 tspn
Red chilli powder- ½ to 1 tspn
Turmeric- ¼ tspn
Salt to taste
Oil – 3 tbspn
Cumin seeds- 1 tspn
Freash Cream Or Milk -1/4 cup(I usually use milk but occasionally cream )

Cooking Method:

• Grind tomatoes in a blender to make paste. Keep it aside now.
• Heat oil in a pan. Add Cumin seeds, let them splutter.
• Add tomato paste. Mix it well and cover the pan and cook for 10 min or till all the tomato smell is gone.
• Then add all the powders. That is Garam masala, Red chilli powder, Turmeric and mix well. 
• Add fresh peas and cream or milk, cook for 5 mins.
• Add paneer cubes, mix well and cook till they are soft and oil comes out of the gravy.
• Garnish with coriender and serve hot.

Serving Suggestion:

Serve hot with chapatti or puri.

Broccoli Curry

Broccoli is one of the vegetable which is very good for health, and is always refused by children to eat. Here is the simple but yummy recipe which i tried to make it myself. I have never come across this recipe before anywhere. so i can say its my recipe. My daughter loves it.

Ingredients:

Broccoli - 1 cup

Cauliflower – 1cup

Onion – 1 chopped (optional)

Tomato – 1 chopped

Geera or cumin seeds – 1 tspn

Oil – 3 tspn

Curry leaves

Garam masala – 1 tspn

Chilli powder – ½ tspn(as much as you like)

Turmeric powder -1/4 tspn

Salt to taste

Cooking Method:

• Wash the Broccoli and Cauliflower, boil them.
• meanwhile, heat 1 tspn oil in a kadai or frying pan. Add cumin seeds and let them splutter. Add curry leaves.
• Then add onion and fry till golden brown. Then add tomato and salt. Mix well, cover it and cook for 3 or 4 min. By doing this the tomato will cook nicely and with the back of the spoon press them to make paste.
• Now add all the powders. That is chilli powder, turmeric powder, garam masala and mix well.
• Now add Broccoli and Cauliflower, mix well, cover and cook till the vegi's absorb some masala(say about 5 min)
• Garnish with coriander and take off the heat. You can garnish with grated coconut as well.

Serving Suggestions:

Serve with chapatti. Its great. And also Can make as wrap by applying butter to chapati.

Jokes

These are some of the jokes which i have collected. Read and enjoy.

2 people get 2 bombs,
1st person: Come lets give them to police.
2nd person: What if it bursts on the way?
1st person: We can let a lie that we had got only one..!!

Police: You will be hanged to death tomorrow at 5 am.
Prisoner: Ha Ha Ha Ha!
Police: Why are you laughing?
Prisoner: I wake up only at 9 o’clock.!

1^st Man: What do you do if you are feeling hot and sweating?
2^nd Man: I will go and sit in front of AC.
1^st Man: What if you are still feeling hot?
2^nd Man: Then I 'on' the AC.!

A person Prays daily for 2 hours,

“Hey God let me win a lottery please”

After 11 years angry god appears infront of him and say “Atleast buy a lottery ticket.”

A person was holding an umbrella with the hole.

Another person askes: “Why do you have hole in your umbrella??”

The person answers: “How will I get to know if its stopped raining?? I see through it.”

A person And Hitler

Hitler: “there is no word like IMPOSSIBLE in my dictionary”

Person: “What’s the use if you tell it now? You could have checked it before buying one.”

Customer: “I need a nail and a hammer for my computer”

Salesman: “But what will you do with them??”

Customer: “I want to put windows on my computer”

Passive voice

Teacher: Write the passive voice of  “I made a mistake"
Student: " I was made by a mistake"

Prof.: Chemical symbol of Barium?
Student: BA
Prof.: For Sodium?
Student: NA
Prof.: What will we get if 1 atom of Barium & 2 atoms of Sodium combines?
Student: "BANANA"

Dad to Child: When I beat you how did you control your anger?
Child: I start cleaning the toilet.
Dad: How does that satisfy you?
Child: I clean it with your tooth brush.

In bio practical:
Examiner: Tell me the name of this bird by seeing its legs only?
Student: I don't know.
Examiner: You are failed!
What's your name?
Student: See my legs & tell my name..

Simple Curd Rice

Ingredients:
Cooked rice- 1 cup
Milk- 1/2 cup
Curd or yogurt- 1/2 cup
Salt
Curry leaves and coriander
Geera and mustard seeds- 1/2 tspn each
Oil- 1 tspn

Cooking Method:

• Take hot cooked rice in a mixing bowl.
• Put the milk and mix it nicley and keep it aside to cool down.
• heat oil in a small vessel. Add geera and mustard seeds and allow them to splutter.
• Add Curry leaves and take off the heat.
• Now add this to the milk rice mixture. Add salt and curd or yogurt.
• Mix well and taste it. put more salt and curd if required.

Serving Suggestion:
Normally its so tasty that it does'nt need anything to eat with, but you can eat it with pickle or peanut chutney.

Palak Rice or Spinach Rice

Spinach is very good for health. especially for kids. so you can make this recipe and pack for lunch. they will like it.

Ingredients:

Rice – 1 cup

Spinach or Palak – 1 cup

Onion- 1
Ginger-Garlic paste- 1 tspn
Garam masala- 1 1/2 tspn
Red chilli powder or green chilli- ½ to 1 tspn
Salt to taste
Oil – 3 tbspn
Cumin and mustard seeds- 1 tspn

Cooking Method:

• Wash the rice and soak them for half an hour. And cook the rice with 2-3 cups of water and some salt. Keep it aside so that it is cool.
• Cook the spinach for 5 min with little amount of water then grind it into paste
• Heat oil in a pan. Add Cumin and mustard seeds, let them splutter.
• Add ginger-garlic paste. Then add onion. Fry till golden brown.
• Then add all the powders. That is Garam masala, Red chilli powder or green chilli, and mix well.
• Add the spinach paste, salt and cook for 2-3 min.
• Mix with the cooked rice.
• Add some fried cashewnuts if you like.

Things to be considered:

• Don’t cook spinach too much, because it will loose its nutrients.
• Don’t over cook the rice and make mashy. Let the grains be separate.

Serving Suggestion:

Serve hot with raita or with some curry or also with pickle.