Daily Prompt: Smell You Later

Humans have very strong scent memory.Tell us about a smell that transports you.

My mom’s preparation of Turki kebab takes me back all the way to my hometown Comilla, Bangladesh.I can still imagine my mom slicing the beef, the potatoes, onions and the tomatoes. They all had to be the  same size. My mother placing a layer of meat, potatoes, onions, and tomatoes and on top the yoghurt spice  mixture and then some whole red dry chilly peppers and on the very top the oil in a round aluminum pot large enough to hold all the ingredients with a lid.. She’d continue until all the ingredients were used.

She’d  put the pot on the stove and leave it for an hour. The aroma of this dish filled the kitchen and the veranda.We’d sit patiently for mom to call us for dinner. When we were called we’d sit and wait for mom to serve. This is such a pleasant memory, it seems to me when I think of it, I’m back home relishing the food, each morsel had such a divine taste.

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Daily Prompt: You, the Sandwich

If a restaurant were to name something after you, what would it be? Describe it( Bonus points if you give us a recipe!)

This is quite an interesting prompt. If a restaurant names something after me, it is : “Ranu’s Biriyani Casserole”

“Ranu’s Biriyani( Rice meat and vegetable casserole)

The following is the recipe and ingredients:

1. beef- two pounds boneless blade roast, slice into one and half inch

2. rice : two cups basmati rice, washed and drained one hour before cooking–one and a half cup of water

3. potatoes: 6 medium regular potatoes, sliced into four each

4. onions– five medium diced

5.tomatoes: six medium, sliced in quarters

6. yoghurt: half cup

7. garlic: 4 cloves, make a paste

8. ginger: one inch piece long, make a paste

9.cayenne : one teaspoon ground

10. ground coriander: one teaspoon

11.ground cumin: one teaspoon

12.ground turmeric: half teaspoon

13.ground cinnamon: half teaspoon

14.ground clove – one-fourth teaspoon

15.ground allspice: one fourth teaspoon. 15 b. salt– two teaspoons

16. Clarified butter or vegetable oil — half cup

17. cooking pot with cover (oven proof)

18. Method:

Place the cook pot on the stove at medium heat, put the vegetable oil or clarified butter in the pot to heat for two minutes. Add onions and fry until it is transparent, add ginger and garlic and fry for a minute, add the rest of the spices including salt, fry for an additional minute and a half. Add beef slices, potatoes, tomatoes, and one and a half cup of water, stir until they are all mixed with the spices, add the rice last and let all the ingredients come to a boil.

Place the pot with its cover in a preheated 350 degrees oven for thirty minutes. Enjoy it with a cucumber yoghurt salad.

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365 Writing Prompts:Simply Irresistible

Tell us about the favorite dish or food that  you simply cannot turn down.

My favorite dish is biriyani, it is a casserole dish. It has a fine  mixture of ingredients, the most important is  beef, close second is basmati rice, followed by potatoes, tomatoes,onions,yoghurt, clarified butter and all those spices that enhance the flavor of this awesome casserole.

It can be cooked in the oven or on  top of the stove, the spices give it the aroma and once it’s done, it is difficult to wait!

I cooked this several times for my daughter’s friends, they love it a lot.

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DP Daily Prompt: No Apologies

What’s one guilty pleasure you have that’s so good, you no longer feel guilty about it?

 

One of the guilty pleasure for me is Pizza, the toppings of cheese, onion,peppers green and hot ,decorated with sliced tomatoes on top makes it the tastiest food. I know it’s packed with calories,I try not to think about it, when I order it,otherwise I lose the pleasure of eating this delightful junk food!

NaBloPoMo “My Mom’s famous Kebab” Ranu’s post https://sabethville.wordpress.com

My Mom was a very good cook. Anything she cooked was amazing. We all loved to eat. We seldom asked  how she turned out these delicious meals. I watched  when she cooked.  It looked so easy. I thought I can do this too. The ingredients she used were, slices of beef ,same size potatoes, onions were sliced thin,the tomatoes were thin slices too. In addition she used whole dry peppers,peppercorn and cinnamon sticks,there were whole cloves,salt,yoghurt and oil or clarified butter.

She used a round pot for this amazing dish. She had the ingredients in separate bowls. The layering of these ingredients was carefully done. she put a tablespoon of oil or clarified butter in the pot and spread it evenly. She carefully laid the beef ,followed  by three or four dry red peppers, a few peppercorns, some cloves,salt, and one or two half inch cinnamon sticks. Then  potatoes were layered on top making sure they covered the meat, onions went on top and tomatoes on the top layer. On each layer the oil and the yoghurt mixed with ground ginger,garlic ground cumin and ground coriander was spread as well. If she had some ingredients left, she’d repeat the layering. When everything was neatly in the pot, she put the cover on.

It was put on a charcoal stove, to give it the effect of an oven,she put hot charcoal on the cover. It took about an hour. When the lid was taken off,the aroma made us rush to the dining room. We didn’t need any bells!

Food Post by Ranu

Food is something our body needs to maintain life,growth and nourishment.

Boiled white rice (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

In Bengal our staple food is rice.It is grown in large quantities and the weather

is suitable for growing it. We eat a lot of rice.The best combination of rice is

fish.We have several kinds of fish,they range from very tiny ones to very large.

Not all the fish is available throughout the year, some of them are seasonal.

We  grow a variety of vegetables and they are available in particular seasons.

In winter we get all our favourite vegetables,e.g   tomatoes,potatoes,cauliflower,

lettuce etc. We  grow variety of lentils; the most popular lentil is masoor,it is

Masoor dal (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

cheaper than moong .Masoor dal(lentil) is cooked  daily in our homes. Masoor dal

is called the poor man’s beef. Among fish, Hilsa fish is very popular.

English: Smoked hilsa cooked with mustard seed in Dhaka. (Photo credit: Wikipedia)