Tip # 2 - How to have a stink free trash can?

A clean kitchen, but stinking trash can worsen ur kitchens atmosphere :( lets see a tip to avoid it :)

Tip # 1 - How to clean wooden cutting boards?

Cutting boards mostly get worse due to their excessive usage in our daily life. I'll give u a tip which u should follow weekly to clean ur cutting boards to have a nice cool board lol:

Home made Butter

Why waste fresh cream?? Lets make butter :)

Ingredients:

Fresh Milk Cream                                           1/2 cup
Cold Water (In summer)                                  2 cups

Warm water (In winters)

A blender =)

Procedure:

To make home made butter is really an easyyyy task :) Why prefer preservatives and artificially made butter when it can easily be made at home with pure ingredients. 

Almost all of u drink fresh milk daily, and after boiling the milk and cooling it down, u get a plenty of clotted cream on the top. Mostly people don't get it what to do with cream, throw it away or whattt?? Lemme tell u a precious tip - To make butter.

What u should do is to start gathering all the cream in a container. This skimmed cream should be freezed daily. When u get plenty of it, like a cup or two, butter is ready to be made :)

Below is shown some of the cream :)

                                                                

Now what u have to do is to pour cream (say half cup) in the blender, and appox. 2 cups of water (Cold in summer, n slightly warm in winter) and simply start blending! Yes yess its that simple lol :)

Note: There is no fixed amount of cream and water that is to be used for making butter. 

Now.. Start blending at intervals.. for like 30 seconds.. and wait until butter lumps start floating above the buttermilk :) All the butter will come at top in the form lumps.. when u see a clear white water beneath the lumps.. butter is ready :))

Just take a spoon and scoop out all the butter out of the blender into the bowl. U can discard the buttermilk or use it for the next batch of cream :) (Although u can also use it as a Whey - Lassi by adding a pinch of salt). 

Squeeze all water out of the butter.. and here u goo...yumm!! 

U can store in fridge for a week or u can freeze it for months :))

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Thanku for stopping by! Hope u enjoy this recipe :)

Plain Cake - Double Celebration: 1st Blog Anniversary & Independence day Special

Today is a very special day for me. As happiness and celebrations are two fold fore me today. 14th August is the Independence day of Pakistan. And secondly my cute little blog was born today =)) 365 days agoo... yeaaaaa!!! I am soo happy!!! To celebrate I took out some time for baking and planned to make a really simple Plain cake!! Lets move on to the recipe :)

Creamy Cauliflower (Gobi)

There are many ways of making Cauliflower, few I have discussed before. Links of which are given below. Today m gonna discuss its creamy version.. yum!

Ingredients:

Cauliflower                                         1 medium sized (Chopped into medium size n washed)

Butter                                                 2 tbsps.

Onion                                                 1 medium sized (1/2 cup)

Red Chili flakes                                  1 tsp.           

Cumin seeds (zeera)                           1 tsp.

Ginger                                                ¼ cup (Sliced)

Salt                                                    1 tsp.
Yogurt                                               1 cup
Cream                                               1 cup

For Garnishing:

Garam Masala                                    1 tsp
Fried Green Chili                                4-5
Ginger                                                ¼ inch (Sliced)

Procedure:

Take a pan and fry the sliced onions and ginger after melting butter. 

Next add red chili flakes and cumin seeds. 

Next mix yogurt and cream and cook for 1-2 minutes :) uff the aromaa....

Now add the cauliflower florets, salt and fry for few minutes.

Cover, and let it cook on low flame for 15-20 min, until cauliflower is tender and cooked.

Garnish with whole spices powder (garam masala), ginger, fried green chili and chopped coriander leaves and serve hot with  chapati - rotis and pickle.

Believe me the taste is totally different and out of this world.

Note: U can use oil instead of butter. Plz don't exceed the amount of oil/butter. As cream is enuf :)

*Other varieties I have discussed before are:

Meaty Cauliflower
Cauliflower with potatoes

Thanku for stopping by! Hope u enjoy this recipe :)

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