The Potato fry!

The potato has certainly turned into one of the most loved veggies. The funny thing is that potatoes did not make their presence in the international arena until a few centuries back, before that, there were no potatoes, can you imagine that? A world without potatoes, a dreary world it must have been, indeed.
Anyway, one of my favorite dishes is the 'Potato fry' and it is very easy to make it. Take about 3-4 medium sized Potatoes, about 1/2 kilo of it and boil it for say 7-10 minutes or so. Then, peel it and cut into small bite sized pieces and keep it aside. Now take about 2-3 onions and cut it into slender long pieces and keep that aside as well.

Now, pour some olive/cooking oil in the pan and fry some garlic, add the onions and shallow fry the whole thing. After a few minutes of doing this, you can now add some turmeric powder as well as some cumin powder. Fry it for some 2 more minutes, now add the potatoes and mix it all very well until the potatoes get the color of the turmeric powder. Once that is done,add some chili powder and some salt and fry it some more. Then, add some coriander powder as well and fry it all some more, now add the coriander leaves and mix it all up very well. Your Potato fry is all ready to go!

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The success in the Spanish tortilla saga!

First of all cooking does not come natural to me and believe It or not i can mess up even the most basic of instructions when it comes to cooking. Anyway, i recently saw this show on cooking the perfect Spanish Tortilla and i was hooked, i wanted to make it and tried my hand at doing so. The only problem was that although my heart was on making one it seems that my mind was intent on making another, complete burnt out rubbish. I can swear that as my heart pounded and the blood rushed to my temples as I sat watching the stove with anticipation of the most perfect Spanish Tortilla, the only thing that came wafting to my nose was the smell of the burnt out egg. That was one total and utter disaster.
But I persevered and i surprised myself yesterday with the most perfect Spanish tortilla which by the way is a kind of an egg pie with potatoes,onions,garlic and anything else for the filling. Anyway my Spanish experience yesterday taught me that failures are indeed stepping stones to success. So I march on, intent on conquering other cooking peaks, for today, I have decided to make a stir fry prawn and egg pepper. I shall post tomorrow on how that went,wish me luck!