Cooking for Beginners/Dummies- Indian style

Broccoli  garlic stir fry  A quick weekday dinner recipe. If you steam / cook broccolis in advance,then the recipe just takes 5 minutes to put together. Broccoli stores/ freezes well in the fridge. Ingredients: Broccoli- 1 medium stalk Garlic - 6 medium to large Cloves  Red Onion -1 large sliced into medium sized pieces Soy sauce -1 table spoon Oil-2 table spoon Salt and pepper Red schezwan sauce or home made chilly sauce - 2 table spoon Method: Cut the broccoli into small florets. Don't throw the stem/stalk, they are nutritious, slice them into very thin Juliennes. Microwave the stalk with one table spoon water  for a minute to soften it. Into a pan add the broccoli florets ,add water and let it Blanche (soften ). Once the stalk is out of the microwave,add that as well to the pan. We have done this step of microwaving the stem to give it a cooking heads up, you see the stalk takes longer to cook so if we add it along with the florets then there are ch...

Hi All Today my post is about Baking. Baking has always fascinated me, but there was always a stigma, a mental block to start baking. Till about recently , I thought baking could be done only in an oven, but thanks to you tube, and some web pages, I figured we could bake with our microwave since it had a convection mode, so really its called a convection oven. And on reading most of those blogs, i figured that most home chefs/bakers use a convection oven than a regular fancy oven / OTG that you see in cooking videos. Its more economical as it contains both microwave and an oven.. So my second stigma was that , what you bake in an convection oven wont taste or feel the same as a regular OTG baked goodies, but yea well , that's solved after I attempted a cake some months back ( Pillsbury cake mix) which turned out just fine Another reason I kept holding back on baking is because of the ingredients and the actual recipes.. you see there are a truck load of recipes that you see o...