DUM ALOO

About this recipe is invented by me .As we don’t eat onions and garlic's tried to make it with other alternatives. Hope all will like this. For this the ingredients we need is:-

Potatoes- Medium sized small ones.

Groundnuts-

Ginger- Half or a little

Tomatoes- One to make puree out of it and another for garnishing.

Jeera Powder-

Curry Powder-

Coriander leaves/Dhania patta-

Turmeric Powder/ Haldi-

Curry Powder-

Refine oil-

Salt to taste

Kashmiri Mirch Powder

Method

                  Peel the potatoes and wash it in the water and then pierce it with a fork from all side. After all the potatoes are pierced, marinate with salt, turmeric and keep aside for a while. Keep it for at max for half an hour so that salt goes inside the potatoes. After that make a paste of groundnuts, make ginger paste and tomato puree. These three should be made different not all in one. After these preparations are over.

 Light wok and heat oil for deep frying in a kadai.When the oil is heated up put the marinated potatoes in the oil one by one and fry in a low flame till the potatoes upper layer turns into golden brown. After the potatoes are golden brown take it out in a tissues paper so that the extra oil is soaked up.

 Let the potatoes cool. In mean while light a wok and heat a kadai and put one two table spoon of oil and when the oil is heated up add panch photan and keep in mind this also should be in a low flame. When the panch photan splutters add the groundnuts paste and keep on stirring with a spoon so that it doesn’t cuddles. fry for a while the groundnuts paste, then add to that haldi powder, then add ginger paste, fry for a while then add tomato puree, after that add curry powder, jeera powder and kashmiri mirch powder just for color. Fry till all the masala's mix well and the mixture starts leaving oil from the sides and a very sweet aroma comes. After that add water to that and mix it well and add salt to taste. After that cut the potatoes  into two halves with knife and add to this gravy and cover it with a  tight lid and cook it in flame for 10 min.Do open the lid in between.But it should be cooked in the vapor (dum).When you see all potatoes with the gravy .Garnish it with coriander leaves and tomatoes. Serve hot with rice or roti's.

                As the name suggest it should be cooked in the dum.Nowadays we use cooking gas in our house so the taste might matter but if it cooked in a angithi or lakdi wala chulha it might have mouth watering taste.

I AM TOO BUSY

             The word" busy" is very common and" I am too busy" is very very much common to us .How is it common to lets come to know .If we keenly observe ourselves otherwise let me start with myself only. If I introspect myself I might find be using is this would every min or sec.But am i really busy???Am I telling the truth? Am I telling this to others or am I fooling myself? Each of us if we observe ourselves we can find the answer. I know in this fast growing world we all are running with my time and at the end of the day also we think why God has given 24 hrs in a day why not 26 hrs a day. But for whom we are running for? just think for a while…..

              We are running for ourselves for our near and dear's. But what's the use  of running if we can't get time for them or for ourselves .For e.g.:- 1.At the end of the day if we can't get time for having proper sleep then what is  the use of earning so much money?. 2. If we can't take care of our children rather we are leaving to grow up with the help of maids then what's the use of making money or remaining busy whole day?.3. if we can't give ourselves a 15min of time per day to relax then what's the use of remaining busy. and earning money?.

              As I have felt in these days I found this that busy word has two meanings. One intentionally said that "I am busy" and second one is that they are really busy and are mad for money.

               Let me elaborate the first one of intentionally said 'I am busy'. Actually these persons are never busy rather some are very much lazy type person or want to avoid a person they said it.

For e.g.:-Once  x person asked y to serve dinner .Ysaid that as I am cutting the vegetables for next day because mom is not in home so that I can prepare your meals in the morning and can let you to college on time. But next time X didn’t say it rather she ordered to Y to serve it as she is too much busy in her work. Then as per X' saying Y rushed to serve dinner in her room. There Y found X sitting in bed busy messaging in her mobile to her friends and ordering Y to hand over the plate to her. This is the some sort of saying busy. I hope now one can understand what type of busy these persons are.

             And Second one are those persons who are busy in work .After 8 hrs of job they think how to engage themselves in other work in other work and earn money. But they forget that there is some one waiting for you in home. And these people after sometime suffer from every type of diseases like BP, diabetes, overweight, etc. 

           And one thing to visualize is when we say we are busy to some one how they feel.Has anyone ever tried to inculcate within themselves?. For e.g.:- When parents say to their children that we can't come to your annual function as we have loads of work in office.Just think how it hurts.

When old parents wait for their son and daughter in laws and grand children to come home in vacation, if they don’t come and send message they won't be coming because they are busy. How the heart hurts to old parents. It's really a feeling that we can't express in words. Just can feel is the tears, the heart break and nothing else.

            So lastly to conclude just think before saying I am busy and try to avoid or less use of this sentence. May be it’s a short sentence but it breaks many hearts.

"Never take someone for granted, Hold every person close to your heart because you might wake up one day and realize that you've lost a diamond while you were busy collecting stones…….." JJ