Dinner Out - Is It Worth It?

When it comes to taking dining risks, I'm a big rubbery wimp. I waited five long gluten-free years before I even dared to consider eating out. The dangers of cross contamination scare the living daylights out of me. Why? 

Back in my more innocent g-free newbie days I got sick at a friend's house. She was hosting a dinner party. Thinking I'd play it safe, I brought a pot of my homemade pumpkin soup. She thanked me, then stirred it with her ancient wooden spoon. Misery ensued.

But this winter I decided to be bold.

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Vegetable-Sandwich

Ingredients:
2- Round cut boiled potatoes,
2- Round cut onion slices,
1-Round cut tomato slices,
1-tbsp red chilli powder,
1-cub of cheese,
5-tbsp lemon juice,
Tomato ketchup,
Green chutney,
Salt to taste,
Coriander leaves for garnish.
Method:
Step 1: Add lemon juice, red chilli powder and salt above potato slice, onion slice, and tomato slice.

Step 2: Take two slice of bread and cut its border.
Step 3: Spread ketchup in one slide and green chutney in another slice.

Step 4: Put four slices of potato and onion slice over the bread.

Step 5: Place tomato slices over the onion slice.

Step 6: Then cover with another bread slice and cut into four pieces.
Step 7: Spread grated cheese on it.

Step 8: Garnish with coriander leaves, tomato and onion slice.

Happy mother's day Special

In Celebration
Of the Happy mother’s day
I share……………

Why God Made MOTHER

God, in all his wisdom
Made a special person mother………..
Someone whom we count on
And on whom we can depend………….
Someone who is always there
To bend a helping hand…………..
And out of all the things
That God could every send,
Few mean as much as having
One nice, carrying, simple person ……….

I gift this saari to my mom on her birthday and I share with you on happy mother’s day.:)

I work out by my hand and so this is very special gift to my mother. Every time my mother made everything’s for me so I decided that I made one saari for her.

Gluten-Free Buttermilk Flatbread- Easy as 1-2-3

The easiest gluten-free cracker-flatbread ever.

There are days when keeping a Gluten-Free Pantry Quick Mix in your cupboard can come in handy. Yesterday- as the flannel grey sky spit snow at us out here in the high desert- a certain gluten-free goddess had a casita full of men to feed- including those devilishly handsome amigos of mine, Joey and Will. So Joey and I collaborated in my tiny blue tiled cocina and whipped up some tasty gluten-free comestibles.

He made his fabulous Kicked Up Rockin' Guac. I made some hummus spiked with cilantro pesto. We served up an array of crudities, organic blue corn chips and salsa, chicken salad (from Will), my Pecan Crackers, jalapeno-stuffed olives, and my freshly made basil-pecan pesto with a spur-of-the-moment improvthat is a cross between a tender cracker and a tasty flatbread.

And I'm also thinking, Dear Reader, this dough might make for a delicious and fast gluten-free pizza crust.

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Stuffed white gourd

Ingredients:
2-white gourd,
1-tbsp mustard seeds,
1-tbsp cumin seeds,
1-tbsp asophotedia,
Coriander leaves for garnish.

Ingredients for stuffing:
1\2 cup bengal gram flour,
2-tbsp coriander+cumin powder,
1-tbsp red chilli powder,
1-tbsp turmeric powder,
1-tbsp garlic paste,
2-tbsp lemon juice,
Salt to taste.

Method:
Step 1: Peel the white gourd and make long cut in middle of the white gourd.

Step 2: Mix all stuff masala and stuff this in white gourd.

Step 3: Then cut white gourd in to round pieces.

Step 4: Heat the oil in cooker and add mustard seeds, cumin seeds, and asophotedia in it.

Step 5: Than add round cut stuff white gourd in it.

Step 6: Add remaining masala over it and add 1-cup water in it.

Step 7: Cover the cooker and cook for 3-vishal.
Step 8: Cool at room temperature and garnish with coriander leaves.

Enjoy deshi gujarati dish with green chilli, garlic paste, bhakri and buttermilk.:)

Okra with Potato.

Ingredients:
200gm okra,
200gm potato,
1-tbsp garlic paste,
1-tbspmeric powder,
1-tbsp red chilli powder,
1-tbsp mustard seeds,
1-tbsp cumin seeds,
2-tbsp oil,
Salt to taste.

Method:
Step 1: Heat the oil in thick bottom pan and add mustard seeds, cumin seeds and long cut potatoes in it.Step 2: Cook for 3-4 minutes and after that add long cut okra in it.

Step 3: Stirring it continuously and cook until all stickiness of okra is burn.
Step 4: Then add all remaining masala to it.

Step 5: Mix well and turn of the flame.

Enjoy with roti, rice, kadhi and papad.:)

Kadhi

Ingredients:
2-tbsp Bengal gram flour,
2-cups sour butter milk,
1-tbsp jaggery (optional),
1-tbsp cumin seeds,
7-8 curry leaves,
2-tbsp green chilli, garlic and ginger past,
Salt to taste,
Coriander leaves for garnish.
Method:
Step 1: Mix Bengal gram flour and butter milk finely. Take care that lumps are not formed.

Step 2: Heat the pan in medium flame and add cumin sedds, curry leaves and past in it.

Step 3: Then add prepared butter milk in it.

Step 4: Cook until they are bubbling.
Step 5: Then add salt and jaggery in it.

Step 6: Turn off the flame and garnish with coriander leaves.

Serve hot with roti, curry, rice and papad.