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Wednesday, April 9, 2014

Get on My Face

I thought about calling this post "I Wear My Sunglasses at Day" but then I realized that would make me sound like a total douchebag and the last time I checked, I wasnt simultaneously hitting on insecure girls at a bar in Georgetown, withdrawing hundos from my trust fund to support a dirty coke habit, and bitching about Occupy Wall Street with my other 22-year old friends who dont have jobs.

So like I said, Im not a douchebag. I AM, however, addicted to looking fabulous, so when I saw these Thierry Lasry shades on my new favorite show Happy Endings a couple weeks ago, I had to have them.

At the time, I had no idea who made them or where to find them, thus I began my 12-hour search to figure it out. But figure it out I did! Specifically, these are the Thierry Lasry "Lively" sunnies. Apparently Madonna owns a pair, which makes us BFF now. Although they were sold out nearly everywhere, I managed to find them through UK retailer Matches.

{Sweater: Feel the Piece; Sunnies: Thierry Lasry; Jewelry: Michael Kors, Express}

I literally have never felt/looked/acted cooler in my life.

Saturday, April 5, 2014

Just Call Me King Wing – My How to Eat Chicken Wings Video Goes Viral!

You just never know. What was intended to be a short goof of a demo, has turned into a bona fide internet sensation! My little "How to Eat a Chicken Wing" video has just gone over 120,000 views on YouTube, as well as been featured on such high profile websites as lifehacker.com, seriouseats.com, buzzfeed.com, yelp.com, and consumerist.com, among others.

Thanks to everyone who had a part in spreading the word! By the way, the pastrami-rubbed chicken wings recipe from which this sensation was born is ready to post tomorrow. Stay tuned!

Hey Ladies, Show Me Your Wings!

I just received this video from my good friends Jude (left) and Juliana from Brand New Entertainment, showing off their new-found chicken wing skills. Hey, if a couple television producers from L.A. can do it, so can you! ;-)

Wednesday, March 26, 2014

Lobster Scrambled Eggs and My Fathers Favorite Dinner Table Joke

This posts original title was, " Lobster Scrambled Eggs – I Wonder What the Poor People are Having for Breakfast Today?" Of course I would have explained this socially insensitive query in this first paragraph, but I feared that casual browsers would only read the headline and think I was some kind of major d-bag.

We certainly grew up around a ton of great food, but being of fairly modest means we only enjoyed expensive luxury foods like lobster or Prime Rib once in a great while. Whenever such occasions did present themselves, my father John would always use the same joke. Hed take a bite of whatever, and say to the table with a twinkle in his eye, "I wonder what the poor people are having for dinner tonight?"

Wed all laugh, but it was a more than a simple one-liner to him. The son of immigrants in rough and tumble New York City, he grew up in less than opulent surroundings. You could tell he loved being able to afford splurging on things like lobster once in a while, and Im sure as we ate he thought back to much leaner times.

Anyway, enough with the selfish shellfish reminiscing. When and if you find yourself in possession of some leftover lobster meat, I suggest you do what I did in this video. By the way, feel free to borrow my dads joke, but only if youre also from modest means, otherwise its just not funny. Enjoy!

Ingredients:

2 tablespoons butter

4 eggs

handful of lobster pieces, cut in large chunks, dusted with cayenne

tarragon leaves, to taste

salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste

View the complete recipe

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

CHICKEN CAFREAL ON FATHERS DAY FOR MY DAUGHTER

Here is an amazing recipe from Cook Dil Se.

Today is fathers day and my daughter wanted to eat some thing special. So I decided to cook this recipe of Siddhi, one of the most versatile cooks on the net ( and in the kitchen too) . Please try Chicken Cafreal. from Siddhi.

I am not giving the recipe here as I have cooked exactly as per specification . I am just posting 2 photographs to prove that I did cook it ( Prove to whom? ha ha ) . I have used boneless leg pieces and I advise to use leg pieces or drumsticks as suggested by Siddhi and see the photograph on her blog.

Siddhi , thank you so much for giving to all of us this awesome recipe. (Thank God , you did not taste it, and I am safe as long as you dont taste). Congratulations on your 2nd Blog anniversary . I think when I was cooking the Cafreal , you were baking the cake..ha ha .

Cafreal with flash

Cafreal without flash

Friends! No comments here please , I havent done any thing . ( Reserve your energy for comments , when I come up with new recipes )

NOTE: There are numerous variations to Cafreal recipes, I hope I will be able to cook them one by one...again whats in a name??? , the food should be tasty and one must be delighted after eating it.

Friday, March 7, 2014

My favorite Vegetable Salad

People Im on diet, why becoz I am planning to visit India soon. So, if you are planning to visit Indian is there any rule that you should diet (You say). Yup, I used to weigh 110 pounds when I was in India, here I put on 10 pounds so I am in a process to loose some weight and get the lost haute look. Now I am concentrating more on 30min exercises and diet. Every day 15min Ill do cycling and lift 8 pounds weights 20 times in 3 sets. Thats it Im done. I just planned this because it suites my body style. Coming to the diet I am planning to eat salads and roti every day. Im gonna do this for 30days. So friends wish me all the best and lets see if I loose any weight.

Ingredients:
Lettuce- chopped and washed-4cups
Tomato-chopped-1large
Cucumber-chopped-1
Corn(I used frozen)-1cup (Boiled with little salt)
Broccoli-1 cup(Boiled with little salt)
Cranberry raisins or any raisins-2tbsp
walnuts finely chopped-1/4cup (you can use any nuts)
Fennel seeds/ sonf- 1/2tbsp
oregano-1/2tbsp
pepper powder-1/2tbsp
celery salt/regular salt-1/2tbsp
olive oil-2tbsp

Directions:
In a small bowl take olive oil, oregano, pepper powder, salt , fennel seeds and mix well. In a large mixing bowl add the remaining ingredients and mix slowly. Add the olive oil mixture (dressing) to the vegetables and mix well. Here is your wonderful salad ready to serve. You can serve this chilled, it makes the salad more wonderful. You can serve with croutons. But do not skip walnut, it gives a crunchy and wonderful flavor to this salad.
Hope you like my recipe. Please leave your valuable comments.

Friday, December 27, 2013

My interview with Kate Bracks Masterchef Australia winner at the Whitefield Baking Company Bengaluru Marriott

Ever smiling Kate Bracks

If you followed my Facebook Page updates and the Twitter updates over last two weeks, you might have known how crazy excited I was to get a chance to meet Kate Bracks, winner of Masterchef Australia 3. Kate was here for the opening of Whitefield Baking Company at the Marriott Bengaluru.

The raspberry-chocolate-hazelnut muffins Kate made for us

It was lovely to be able to meet her twice, once as a part of the Press Meet and another ladies soiree organised by GM Matthew Coopers wife, Lynden, where Kate demonstrated some of her favourite recipes and we could exchange conversations over a superbly laid out special lunch spread.

Marriott Bengaluru GM Matthew Cooper with Kate

Some of the colourful treats at the Whitfield Baking Company, which is very tastefully done up and the several baking implements giving it a very homely feel. Id like to thank Marriotts the GM for allowing us this wonderful experience of meeting Kate and getting thoroughly inspired.

For entire set of pictures, check the album on Saffron Trail Facebook Page

Never imagined Id be with Kate in one frame :)

I managed to have a one-on-one interview where I asked her about food, Masterchef, family & India. Here are some of the excerpts...

[This was first published in livemint.com on 15 March, 2013]

Kate Bracks, winner of the third season of the hugely popular cooking reality showMasterChef Australia, was in Bangalore recently to help promote the café Whitefield Baking Company at the newly opened Bengaluru Marriott. We got a chance to ask her some questions. Edited excerpts:

When did you get interested in cooking and what is your first memory of cooking?

As a kid, I remember standing next to my Nanna in the kitchen helping her out with an apron wrapped around me. But my first real memory of cooking by myself is from when I was 8. It was the long summer holidays and I was terribly bored when my mum asked me to cook something. So I went into the kitchen and I spent a good amount of time making this layered coffee cake with piped icing. I remember feeling all happy about how it turned out. And I guess that’s when I fell in love with cooking. And this was the exact same dish I made in the initial round of the MasterChef contest where they asked us to make something that was a dear memory.

Even during the seven months that you were away from home for the ‘MasterChef Australia’ contest, it must have been tough to stay away from your children in a somewhat restricted set-up. How did you manage that?

It was tough. I went in thinking I’m not going to last the entire contest and that somewhat helped me hang in there. Towards the end I was torn between wanting to go ahead in the contest and wanting to go back home to be with my family. I managed to handle it solely by taking each day as it came. The episode where MasterChef brought in our families as a surprise, asking us to cook for them, was one of my favourite moments in the show.

How did you handle the pressure of cooking in the ‘MasterChef’ kitchen?

To be honest, I kept reminding myself that it’s just food and it’s just a contest. Many times I felt incredible nervous energy before a challenge, so yes the pressure was there. One of the things that helped me a lot was being a mum. Especially when you are a mum to young kids, there are times when you don’t get sleep one night and the next day you just have to be up and going. And it wasn’t much different on the show. My mantra was “just keep going, it’s just food, it’s not a matter of life and death”, and that helped.

How has winning ‘MasterChef Australia’ changed your life?

The biggest change for me was going from full-time home-based mum to full-time working mum. It also gave me a job dealing with food and people, two of my biggest loves, and I get to do work that doesn’t feel like work. Even now, I’m in India on work, but this hardly feels like work! I do feel blessed.

Before ‘MasterChef’, what was the favourite dish your family would ask you to make for them?

My kids always loved burritos, so that’s what was made by popular demand at home. I don’t know if that’s our favourite but we had to go with the kids’ favourite. Otherwise the standard Aussie family dish is sausages and veggies and we used to have that often. We still do.

After ‘MasterChef’, does your family expect you to cook more gourmet stuff?

Once I got back home after winning the MasterChef title, my kids were actually scoring my dishes and telling me things like “this is not your best dish, Mum!”. Yes, there were slightly raised expectations but I quickly brought them back to reality (giggles). But on a serious note, in the MasterChef kitchen, you get 2 hours of uninterrupted time, equipment and ingredients all laid out for you to put up a dish whereas at home, with the kids around, the phone ringing and other chaos, I’ve got just 20 minutes to put food on the table. So that makes a big difference.

What’s a traditional weekend meal on your family table like?

Our traditional Sunday table would have be a roast, especially lamb. My father was a meat wholesaler and he specialized in lamb—so it was always roast lamb with gravy, baked potatoes, carrots or pumpkin with either lemon pudding or lemon meringue pie for dessert. Those are still my favourite desserts.

You’ve been a teacher, are mum to three children and now you teach children how to cook. How early do you think children can be introduced to cooking and what are the top three dishes you think they can manage well?

I think they can help from the day they can stand up but you should be willing to put up with the mess. When my son was two years old, I stood him up on the table and said “let’s make a cake”, and even at that age he could name the things that went into making a cake.

Young kids can pour, spoon, mix—yes, it’s a bit messy but it’s about sharing that experience with them. Older kids can handle heat, fry-pans and more advanced cooking with adult supervision. Kids enjoy making pancakes. Older kids can help in making vegetable fritters, which I feel is a great way to make them eat veggies. Cakes are a good start, helping with the measuring, stirring, spooning, etc.

My 10-year-old daughter comes up to me on a Sunday morning with the offer of making porridge for the family. So our kids are capable of more than we think they are.

Your book ‘The Sweet Life’ is out. What are your other plans?

At the moment I’m working with the local awarded chef on putting out a product line. I get to work in the chef’s kitchen all day and then I get to pick up my kids from school. It’s totally different from the pressures of working in a restaurant kitchen and the late nights. This way I get to do the things I love and be there for the family as well.

Is this your first trip to India? Do you cook/eat Indian dishes back home? If yes, what’s your favourite?

This is indeed my first trip to India and I’ve been loving the food that I’m tasting here, my favourite being the Indian nachos at Queens (a restaurant in Bangalore)—little crispy discs with yogurt and sweet and sour stuff (she means sev puri). As long as the food doesn’t get too spicy and overwhelm the flavours, I can handle Indian food. As clichéd as it gets, I was given a butter chicken to eat here at the restaurant, but this was nothing like what we get back home. It was that delicious!

Tuesday, December 24, 2013

My Paleo Superbowl Party Menu

Any given Sunday you might find me doing the following:

-Painting my nails

-Washing my hair for the week (once, maybe twice, is sufficient)

-Live tweeting the red carpet arrivals for the Emmys/SAG awards/Oscars, etc.

-Re-watching episodes of My Drunk Kitchen on YouTube.

Oh, hey, you know what Im not doing any given Sunday (or day that ends in "y")? Watching football. Okay, lets not discriminate here--the truth is, Im not watching any sporting event. Ever. You know what I will watch? An old lady trying to recapture the talent and success of her youth, shimmying around in a crotchless pleather girdle for 10 minutes before descending the stage into the arms of her son. I mean, boyfriend. In other words, Madonna.

For me, the Superbowl is really just an excuse to watch what I can only hope is a trainwreck of a half-time show (in recent history, Janet Jacksons wardrobe malfunction or Fergies vocal malfunction have been particular favorites) and willingly watch advertisements for cars, potato chips, and silicon implants, all while stuffing my gourd with the nearest starch and cheese dip. But not this year!!

I mean, Ill still be stuffing my gourd, but as for the menu, Im going to keep it paleo. Heres what Im planning on serving at our pigskin bash:

Nibbles

1. Maple-glazed cinnamon almonds and Rosemary Cashews (recipe coming tomorrow)

2. Walnut red pepper dip with red pepper paleo crackers

MEAT

Buffalo wings

Instead of frying ours in vegetable or peanut oil, Im going to use coconut oil. It has a very high smoke point (key for frying) and adds a tremendous flavor to meat. Ill be making the sauce with ghee instead of plain butter.

3. Mini cauliflower crust pizzas

Beanless chili

Im strongly considering this recipe (minus the teaspoon of sugar, duh)

Sides

4. Sweet Potato chips

5. Faux-tato salad

Dessert

6. Vanilla pavlova topped with paleo chocolate pudding (it tastes like frosting!!) and whipped coconut cream

Drinks

Mint Iced Tea

Whatever booze Kyle picks up

Whats on YOUR Superbowl menu??