Potato omelette

A humble omelette sans pomp and show. Like the old saying that the best gifts come in little packages.

Only basic ingredients, yet it serves a fulfilling serving!

What I used

1. Oil/butter: 3 tablespoons
2. Grated onion (1), grated potato (1 cup)
3. Salt: to taste
4. Chilli: 1
5. Curry leaves: few
6. Beaten eggs: 3

How I made it

1. In a frying pan, saute the onion and grated potatoes with some salt, chilli and the curry leaves till the potatoes have cooked.
2. Spread the contents across the pan and pour the beaten eggs over it.
3. Once the eggs harden, slide it out onto a plate and turn the omelette the other side up back into the pan, as in a Spanish omelette, to cook the other side.

This was best served hot, with garlic bread :D :D

Classic French toast

I love bread.. just not the regular sliced ones we get in the supermarket!! My kind are the ones that are a bit overbaked with a slight but obvious taste of the overbaked crust. So as a rule, I rarely buy the supermarket sliced breads.

One can't underestimate the ease with which bread can result in a fast turnaround of breakfast. I first had French toast as a child when my mother made it as a Friday breakfast and I hated it. Was never a fan of fried bread throughout my childhood. When the necessity arises, there is a greater tendency to pacify oneself with the availability deemed as the new "in" thing.

On one such uncanny day, with an already preset disposition to eggs and the presence of some bread, I decided to make the French toast for breakfast. This was also due to the keen desire to avoid some good bread from going stale. And secretly I don't prefer to waste food for the sake of the starving children across the world.

So French toast is really easy to make, though I must warn you, it is a bit oily.



What I used

1. Butter/oil: enough for shallow frying (around half cup for 4 slices of bread)
2. Eggs: 2
3. Sugar: depending on the sweetness needed (I used 3 tablespoons)
4. Bread: 4 slices
5. Cinnamon/sugar powder: for sprinkling (optional)

How I made it

1. In a bowl, beat the eggs and sugar well and soak each bread slice for about 30 seconds.
2. Heat the butter/oil in a pan and fry the egg-soaked bread slices till they brown on each side.

Land the toast on a plate lined with tissue/blotting paper to get rid of the excess oil. Serve with a sprinkle of cinnamon or sugar powder.

This a perfect breakfast with a hot cup of coffee or cardamom tea :D :D

Beef cutlets

The day I made beef roast was the same day I decided to try the beef cutlets, not because of any particular reason other than the sheer availability of beef. 

More importantly, it was a treat that I had planned for my friends and colleagues. I made this inspired by the beef cutlets we used to buy from the food court in our office building. The kind of cutlets with more substance than just a heavy filling of potatoes. This was rich and spicy beef cutlets. 4 pm was awaited eagerly so we could rush upstairs to the food court and grab 2 cutlets before it was all over. 

That's when I decided I must make these yummy cutlets for a treat :D :D

Since the recipe has a lot to do with the beef roast, I suggest you go though the ingredients and method I have mentioned for the beef roast, then follow the below steps:

What I used (extra ingredients not mentioned in the recipe for beef roast)

1. Eggs: 3
2. Bread crumbs: 2 cups
3. Oil: for deep frying

How I made it

1. To make cutlets, grind the beef roast in a mixer and make small flattened patties. 
2. Dip each patty in egg wash and coat with bread crumbs. 
3. Repeat the process of egg wash, bread crumbs once again for really crisp crust.
4. Deep fry in hot oil to get spicy crispy beef cutlets.

Beef cutlets and hot coffee is a to-die-for evening snacks.

But of course, if you can't wait till evening, just make it any time and have it with anything or even better idea, don't wait for a combo, simply munch on it as soon as it off the stove :D :D