Microwavable Carrot Cake

This is one of the easiest and fastest baking dishes you will ever make.For the baking ingredient I bought pre-baking item available in the market like Betty Crocker. The ingredients you need to add:

1.       Vegetable Oil    1 cup

2.       Water                ½ cup

3.       Egg                  3 medium size

Now to start with the recipe, pour the pre-prepared flour in a mixing bowl. Add eggs to it, then vegetable oil followed by water. Blend all the ingredients together for 5 mins till it becomes a smooth paste. Now take a glass microwaveable wide open bowl and grease it with butter to prevent the cake from sticking while cooking. Add crushed peanuts, cashew nuts, almond and raisins for added flavor. Pour the mixture in the bowl. Then set the microwave to the highest level and set the timer from 5 to 7 mins and jut wait for the cake to be baked. Slowly the cake will start rising and become fluffy in appearanceJ. Once done use a fork or a tooth pick to check the cake is baked. Then take it out and cut it into pcs and can serve warm or else put it in the ref for 30 mins to cool down before serving.

Phad Thai with a Twist

This is the name of my new Thai recipe which I cooked at home in a very innovative style. To start with this recipe you need put together some of the ingredients and a packet of Thai rice noodles available in the market from the Simple Asia brand and oh!! it also comes with a Thai sauce to add to the cooked noodles.

So let’s kick off with the recipe. Ingredients required for 250 gm of noodles are:
1.  One medium size red onion/white onion – finely chopped
2.  Bell pepper – 1medium size
3.  Sprout mongo – 15 gms or 2 tbsp
4.  Peanuts finely chopped – 2 tbsp
5.  Cilantro/coriander leaves for garnishing
6.  Vegetable oil -2 tbsp
7.  Dried chilies – 2 pcs
8.  Bay leaves – 3 to 4 pcs
9.  Boneless Chicken or Shrimp – 100 gms

First boil water in a pan, once the water is boiling add noodles and soak it for 5 minutes. Drain the water from the noodles and spread it in a plate and set aside. While soaking the noodles you can add 1 table sp of veg oil and salt in the water. That will keep the noodles loose and prevent from sticking to each other.
Place a pan in your gas oven and add oil to it. Add the dried chilies and bay leaves once the oil is hot and then the onions. Sauté the onion till light brown in color. Cook the shredded chicken. If you are cooking with shrimp, add it later while frying the noodles in the pan. Then add the crushed peanuts and bell pepper. Now, add the cooked noodles and pan fry it for a minute or so. Then add the packet sauce provided in the Noodle box. At the end add one scrambled egg as a topping and garnish with cilantro and chopped lemon grass for Thai flavor.

Unexpectedly Happy !!!

We just celebrated Aadi’s third birthday at home. It was real fun but kept it among us this time. As in my hubby’s family they follow the rule of not celebrating the b’day of any member on that same particular day, so it has to be either ahead or later. This year we decided to celebrate it a day ahead. It was Tuesday after office hours my hubby gave a call to get ready, to go out to buy son’s birthday gift. I was very excited and we left within an hour for shopping. We had just determined to present him a bike this time. He unknowingly was trying it at the shop, thinking it is only a trial toy which will be left behind at the store like any other days. He was so innocently unaware of the fact even after buying it. Then we proceeded toward a restaurant for eating and in the mean time, my hubby went to leave it in the car.

After having some pasta and sandwiches we did some window shopping. Then we came across a bakery store, so lucky enough to get a cake for his b’day. It was a Rocky Road Chocolate Cake from “Sugarhouse” . We got the cake and left for home. After we reached home and got the bike from the car, Aadi’s face was thrilled with smile and he was astonishingly overwhelmed with the fact that we got the bike for him, which he never expected.

Then comes the cake cutting episode. We somehow prepared to have a surprise blast so arranged the cake on the dinner table and put the candles on the cake and started blowing and cutting the cake and hence his third birthday was celebrated without any arrangement and preparation.