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Thursday, December 23, 2010

Cause I eats me spinach

And finally my net acts real normal, lets me upload these pics and after 3 days of trying to transfer them by bluetooth, cord and what not, I sit down to write my 2nd post abt the thing I love doing most after a loong first version.

Oh yes, I love cooking and I sorta missed doing it this semester due to unending vivas and projects.(those stupid excuses that we engineers give :P). I thought I had lost that instinctive hand to experiment and make things work and i would end up only making idlis and dosas :P.   And these autonomous people (you know who I mean :P) put up food posts and make me jealous that I didn't cook for so long, also I will blame Masterchef Australia.

So, I decided I had to whip up something before the exam on Sunday, something that is quite appropriate for the season, Spinach soup.


 
You start off with some cloves of garlic, some freshly cut ginger frying in the pan and when its fried, fresh spinach it is, roughly cut( make sure they're well washed unless the sup is for an enemy who you wish tastes mud :P)

At this point of time, its totally wilted,cooked in its own dampness, looks that natural green, smells amazing. (ohh that ginger and garlic do wonders everywhere :P)

Then off to a new pan where you will fry a finely cut onion,a looong chilli(ohh,I love it spicy :D),3-4 cloves(if a little too much it might become clove soup,so take care :P) and thoda cinnamon,in butter if you please, that again gives a wonderful aroma.
(.It is so difficult being a cook and avoiding eating the ingredients before the actual thing. :P)
 
And then all you got to do is grind them and sniff the air, see that green colour beckoning you to taste it.(Dramatic I know but at this stage its difficult to resist the temptation! ) Bring it to a boil, add salt and pepper to taste..lots of pepper for winter!!
Although this picture isn't very clear, take that boiling soup in the bowl, a ladle of milk and some cheese goes right into it(some into your mouth as well :P ) and voila! ready to be served :D

(Even my sister who avoids spinach actually liked this soup..subtle tasting, you barely realize the onions and the spinach sorta lends its flavour and cinnamon and cloves sorta make it smell like soup. So, all in all ,it was amazing. If its too much kitchen jargon, blame Masterchef again :P)

So all you have to is, Go to your balcony, stare at those blue skies and a spoon into your mouth. Heaven :D

5 comments:

Shraddha said...

Good. This autonomous female is turning too many people into kitchen experts. We will soon have a Sardar Patel Cook's club. Anyhow,I am not much into cooking. I like to do it sweet though,once in a while. Those terribly simple things you do and make people jealous,nothing even close to missanonymity.

Good going! I am in good company,I will have a lot of food my way next semester. My apologies to weighing scales!

Sumit Gouthaman said...

Nice......i usually hate spinach......but gonna give this one a try......i've never previously tried cooking anything this complicated. I hope it doesn't get messed up.....

Ashmita said...

*Clap clap* Brilliant, this.
I shall be whipping this up soon then :)

Keep em' coming!

Trusha said...

yumm....sounds delicious!! *slurp* :D The pics look good. I'm tempted to whip one up right now :)

Preeti Ramaraj said...

@shraddha: Oye, ive always cooked..just took a sabbatical and his female made me get out of it with a vengeance :P

@sumit: real cool!!

@Ashmita: Of course!
@trusha: you should..perfect for cold weather!