Tag-O-Mania

     I am a lazy gal to do all these tagging stuffs. I feel its like a cumbersome process, by framing some sets of questions and more difficult part is finding ONLY SELECTED friends to tag back. Oh God ! i guess GA (Gayathri Anand) took some revenge on me from which i cant escape. Will satisfy you order GA, no worries. Moreover, its a great idea to know about my co-bloggers and also i can take REVENGE.. Haaaiiiiyyyaaaaa.....! Thanks GA.

    So here comes my replies for your tagged questions GA :)

1. Introduce yourself
I am Sangeetha Nambirajan, "BIG" ALWAYS loved to be a Happy Home maker but am sceptical with the profile as S/W Engg :( I am a mother of 1 cute, adamant, lil princess. I am very talkative, love to keep/make others happy and Jovial. I dont like hurting ppl at any cost. Ok ok ok.. I can understand u readers, Let me stop here.

2. What's your favorite hobby or how do you love to enjoy your time ??
Blindly i can say COOKING & CLEANING(!) and another most is love Bike long ride.

3. Which is the place / tourist spot you want to go ??
Its one & only Kullu Manali

4. When it comes to blogging , how supportive are your family members ??
Hubby is very very supportive. Pls, dont be envy. He is very supportive to my brother. Both will always laugh at my blog post.. Huh! But one contribution he'll do, i.e. to transfer all my recipe clicks to my blog's common repository from his cam, its just to free his cam space :( Hoowwwwwwwww supportive he is :P

5. What is your fav. food
You can refer my post Onion Tomato Thokku.

6. What inspired you to create a blog ?
He he, You want me to be Frank :) If yes, its my BOSS who didnt assign any task @ office  :) (GOD, She should not check this!)

7. How do u feel while u get a award /Tags from other blogger friends ??
OMG ! You can check this funny link http://recipe-excavator.blogspot.in/search/label/Awards. You can see how i have flied each time :P

8. Talk about food photography..do you judge a recipe by the photo posted by the bloggers ?? and when searching for a recipe in search engine say Google, do u look for just recipe or look by images ??
GA, have you checked my recipe pics ?? still i need to talk about food photography?? :) According to me "IMAGE talks more than WORDS" So, 80 % will judge only on the clicks where/whenever i search for recipes.

9. Have you tried any recipes from other blogger ?? what's the result ??
Yes, lot. You can check this "Bread Jamun" for example.

10. How happy you will be in getting a comment for your recipe ...??
Will feel "Atleast there are someone who keeps on visiting my blog".

11. How about taking parts in events hosted by other bloggers ??
Love to take part but as a office goers sometime i don't find time to manage my own blog. First i need to learn on "Time Management" to tackle both my blog/home/office. At least lets try it in future.

Haaappppaaaaaaa !! Exam over !!! Jolly !!!!!!!!

Now its my REVENGE(!) time, my question paper will be very tough :)

Planned to take revenge on these girls. Sorry girls !!!!!!

Poonam Borkar
S.Menaga
Priya
Asiya Omar
Sravs
Maha
Aruna
Jay
Reva
Dr.Sameena Prathap
Seetha

My questions are:

1. Your intro pls !
2. Your Favorite dish ?
3. Your best/new try (recipe) so far ?
4. Which is your second passion other than cooking ?
5. At least once have u thought, i could have born as a Guy or U feel "am happy with what I am now" ? Be frank with reason pls ?
6. My favorite question ! Love to be Home maker or Office Goer ?
7. You prefer Instantly publishing post or Scheduled post and Why ?
8. Can i see your kitchen ? Photo pls ?
9. If you are really upset, what is that one thing you do to get distracted ?
10. What will be your spouse reaction on seeing you new tried recipe's outcome ?
11. What do you think about "Recipe-Exacavator". Pls, don't think who is this. Its my blog/me :(

RULES:

1. Post the rules.
2. Answer the questions set for you in the tagger's post and create new set of eleven questions.
3. Tag eleven people and link to them on your post.
4. Let them know you have tagged them.

Keep the Tag rolling !

Egg Pepper Fry

     I want to post this recipe immediately as this is my long time drafted post, so planned to post it yesterday, Suddenly when i checked my recipe count, Hah ! its 150!! How i can leave it so simple. So, started my browsing session to create an image. At last created a perfect text/image and the auspicious time (!) has come to post it.

    Here is the note behind this recipe... As i mentioned in all my EGG related post, i hate boiled Eggs. Still, like to try some different recipes using Boiled Egg. I know two receipes using Boiled Eggs. One is "Egg Thokku" and another one is this. When i tried this first during my early marriage days, i just felt the raw smell of the added ingredients. So, i decided not to prepare this anymore but suddenly when i checked my cookery book recently, this recipe got flashed and tempted me to prepare. so, try this for the second time only using 2 Boiled eggs. OMG!! i got my mom's taste. Hurray !!!!!!! :) Here comes my another boiled egg recipe.

INGREDIENTS
Boiled Egg - 2 Nos.
Onion - 2 Nos.
Garlic - 3 cloves
Tomato - 1 No.
Pepper corns - 1 spoon
Coriander
Chilly Powder - 1/2 spoon
Turmeric Powder - Pinch
Salt - To Taste
Mustard - 1/2 spoon
Sessame Oil - To garnish

METHOD:
     Grind Onion, pepper corns, garlic, tomato as a thick paste and keep aside. Keep a pan and heat a spoon of oil. Allow mustard to get splutters. Then pour the grinded items, saute it along with turmeric powder and required salt, until the raw smell goes off. If you need more kaaram, add chilly powder. It will take more time as we have grinded raw onions & garlic. DONOT add water at any cost. Once the raw smell goes off, slit the boiled egg and add it to the mixture. Fry until the white part of egg coated well with the sauted mixture. You can taste it with Hot steamed rice and as a side dish for Rasam, Roti etc.

♬ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♬

Surprise from my new friend !

    Today when i checked my comments moderation section, i received a message from my co-blogger, No No, my new blogger friend Asiya Omar for my previous post. As i can see her comment already there, thought what it should be for !! When i read, i was like Hah!, it was an Award time :) Yes, she shared a "Liebster Blog" award for this Irregular girl. Liebster ! What does it mean ??!! Before googling it, I assumed it should be "Irregular" :P (which suits well for me right) Thank god she didnt damage me, it means "Favourite or Dearest" in German. How sweet she is, within this very short span of time, she awarded this to me. Asiya, Its my pleasure to accept it. Plenty of Thanks to you. Keep Visiting and Keep sharing the award to me ;)

    With this happiest note, she ended up with some rules :( Yes, i need to share this to five of my co-bloggers. ONLY five :( how can i restrict. Too bad of u Asiya. I need to follow the rules. No way ! Herecomes my FIVE co-bloggers list.

Priya of Priyaeasyntastyrecipes
Reva of Kaarasaaram
Gayathri Anand of Kavithavin Kaivannam
Dr.Sameena Prathap of My Culinary Creations
Menaga of Shasiga

Gals! u need to follow the rules as well i.e. Pass it to ONLY FIVE. TIT for TAT :P

- Thank the person that gave the award and link back to their blog.
-Copy and paste the award to your blog.
-Reveal the 5 blogs you have chosen to award and let them know by commenting on their blog.
-Hope they pass it forward by accepting and awarding it to bloggers they would like to honor.

Lets Welcome 2012 !!

Hello My dear Co-Bloggers,

Me and My family joins here together to "Wish you all a wonderful and colorful New Year 2012."

Hope this new year will fulfill all your dreams and brings you happiness, health, luck etc etc..

Last but not least, Instead of worrying about 2012 destruction, lets think about the construction(Preparing) of different recipes along with creative clicks :P

Have a Blasting days ahead !! Keep Smiling ever :)

Cheers
♥ Sangeetha♡Nambi ♥

Its an Unbelievable Day !!!

    This been an unbelievable day for me !! Guessing What ??!! Its 1 Year Today. Yes, Its my blog's "FIRST ANNIVERSARY". Hhhhhhhhhooooooooooooooooo... When i reminiscence of my life to 2010 Dec 30 IST, Me, just like that started this blog to bypass my free time at office(If my boss see this, he'll kill me :P) now am celebrating the "First Anniversary" of my blog.



    Its "UNIMAGINABLE". When i started, i was a novice in cooking so, i thought like noone will read and follow my posts/space except my close ones (Its b'cos, i'll keep on bugging them untill they read my posts). But now when i checked my Followers list, Its already 60 followers, with "128 POSTED RECIPES" - OMG ! I am really surprised and Thankfull for you ppl. Eventhough i was succumbed in mid of this year, you ppl maintained your patience and followed and following my space. Once again my BIG THANKS to my co-bloggers.

    I dont want to use the regular saying "Without you all, this will not happen, Blah! Blah!! Blah!!!". Instead, i know you ppl will follow me forever (Bit Overconfidence) so, Hope i'll try to be a regular blogger and will satisfy your expectation by posting good recipes.
Keep Visiting ! Lets Rock !!

Break ! Break !! Break !!!

     After a long gap, today i checked my "Reading List" in my blog admin. Got shocked on seeing many ppl are going for a break. As am trailing behind for past 3 weeks without posting none of the recipe,even me decided the same :( The reason behind this are 1. My work pressure @ office and My kid pressure @ home. Am struggling day by day to balance my works. So decided to have a break, STOP STOP, i know what ur mind voice is telling, "Already she is in a Break now she is declaring formally.. Puhhhhh" am i rite ? ;) Anywayz noone can help out. Ok Friends, I cant hold me much longer from blog, will try to come back with a bang recipe ASAP. Misssing you all, Keep visiting my old entries atleast. Tataaaaaaaaaaa..... Take carezzzzzzzzzzzzzz.............


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Milestone Achieved !!!

     Finally, achieved our milestone. Yyyyyyyiiiiiiiiipppppppeeeeeeee!!!


Image Source: Google

    Yes, we have shifted to our New nest which has 3 rooms, big hall with huge aeration and light. We are really blessed to have such a wonderful space in chennai. U know the most enjoyable person is my sweet lil daughter, who have much space to roam around. She is enjoying at the max. But am getting tried day by day on searching her in each room :) Without being sceptical, Am thankful to god who gave such a best home as we expected. Hmm... without taking much of your time, what i want to tell finally is, Guess, i need to take a small break from this blogging world as we are yet to arrange for the net connection. So, i request all my co-bloggers to stay tune for a while and will be back with the Bang recipe. Thanks for ur support in Advance. Miss u all :)

Celebrating Century with Fish Fry

     Huh, am in a great bliss !!! Crossed so many hard stones to reach this "Wonderful Century". Now i feel like huuuuuuuuuuuuuuhhhhhhhhhhhhh finally reachedddddd :) Feeling great to see the "100" in "Manage Post" under Admin section. Its all b'cos of ur encouragement in the form of comments. In this wonderful moment, i would like to thank each and every bloggers. Thanks u so much friends. With this jouful note, thought of treat you by posting non-veggie recipe, which is considered as all time favorite for all non-veggie ppl. Veggie ppl    E X C U S E M E !!!! :(


Image Source: Google

INGREDIENTS
Salmon fish fillets - 4 Nos.
Oil - To deep fry

To Marinate:
Red chilly powder - 1 1/2 spoon
Turmeric Powder - Pinch
Kitchen King Masala - 1 spoon
Curd - 4 spoons
Besan Flour - 2 spoons
Maida - 1 spoon
Corn flour - 2 spoons
Rice flour - 1 spoon (Optional)
Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 spoons
Salt - To taste



METHOD:
     Mariante the fish fillets by adding all ingredients in "To Marinate" section for 1 hour. Keep a frying pan, instead of pouring much oil, add required spoons of oil and deep fry the marinated pieces. Soooooooo simple :)

Hyacinth beans or Avaraikkai Poriyal

     Once upon a time, "Avaraikkai" was my favorite veggie. But now, will run like a child when my hubby bought this veggie. The sad reason behind that is, one fine day, NO No No, 1 sad day, my hubby went to the market to buy groceries for that week and me adviced my hubby to get extra some grams of veggie as my FIL is visiting my home. He left home with the groceries list in which i didnt mention to buy Avairaikai as we bought that last week. Once he left home, my FIL (Father-in-law) came from his home town, with half kg of Avaraikkai as they use to get all types country veggies in cheaper rate with fresh looking. I was convincing me by saying, Ok. Lets prepare this at the weekend. After 30 mins time, my hubby came with a half kg of Avaraikkai :( I was shocked and he gave the explanation as he couldnt find 1 of the veggie in the list given by me, so he bought that as an alternate. Friends, just think, for 2 members, v had 1 kg of Avaraikkai :( So, not to waste that, i prepared the veggie for 3 times in a week which made to hate this and finally emptied it. So this was that sad story :(



INGREDIENTS
Avaraikkai - 1/4 kg
Chopped Onion - 2 Nos.
Chopped Tomato - 1 No.
Turmeric Powder - Pinch
Chilly Powder - 1 spoon
Salt - To Taste
Oil - to Fry
Grated Coconut - 2 Pieces
Corainder Leaf - 2 Twigs
Mustard - 1 spoon
Curry Leaf - 1 Twig
Smashed Garlic - 4 Nos.

METHOD:
     Take a vessel, Boil chopped avaraikkai, turmeric powder, chilly powder, salt by adding half glass of water. Once its boiled, drain the excess water and keep aside. Keep a frying pan, heat 3 spoons of oil. Then add mustard, once it splutters up, add chopped onion, tomato, corainder leaf, curry leaf, smashed garlic, saute it for 5 mins. Then add boiled avaraikkai and fry it with sauted items. Add grated coconut, 5 mins before switch off the flame.

Note: Avaraikkai can be cooked in pressure cooker or in the frying pan along with sauted items like Tomato, Onion, Garlic etc.

Last but not least, How can i forget this. Cha !!! Its my 75th blog. Heyyyyyyyyyyy :)

My Half-Century :)

    Wondering why i have kept this name ???
Its my 50th post, Wowieeeeeeee !!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I cant even imagine such a quickest reach in a very short span. Its all happened onyl because of ur ur valuable comments and ur support. When i was publishing my 25th post, my followers are just 5 ppl but not its reached to 22, Great is it ? :) Before when i was a blog beginner, i was just doing it for timepass but when i received 2 awards from u ppl, i was too scared cos i need to keep up those status throught out my blogging days. Lets, hope for the best. :)


In between the gaps of 25th and 50th, few happenings i would like to share are
    1. Got 2 awards, Lovely Blog and Stylish award from Reva and Ramya respectively
    2. Uploaded 2 photos of my recipes. Guess started to fulfill Reva's long time suggestion.
    3. Got so many blogger friends.
This is the great achievement in my life time :)

With this note, would like to Thank u all once again for ur co-operation :)

Its Twin Awards !!!!

    Friends, Guess, this month should be an award month for me. Wondering y am telling, though i got only 1 award ? Its b'cos here's my twin award from Ramya. Really am very proud to be a Food blogger. Sometime, i have felt that i could affix some photos to my recipe, cos of time lack, i couldnt make it :( But still, u ppl r very interested to follow my recipes. No words to express my feeling. Only i can say is "Tons of Thanks" to my fellow-bloggers and especially Ramya to think of me.

Like to know what are those Twins awards. Here showcased for u

One lovely blog Award !                         Stylish Blogger Award !!


Now its ur time to award rolling :)

Rules for Rolling:
1. Share 7 Things About Yourself
2. Award 15 Recently Discovered Great Blogger
3. Contact The Bloggers and Inform Them of The Award
4. Thank the award-giver in ur post.

7 Things about me (What to say ?!?!, Will try )
1. Very Talkative.
2. Queen of Punctuality & Cleanliness. Awarded by my college mates but don't know how far its true.
3. Crazy to collect Mobile Ringtones and try with new recipes.
4. Love to watch cookery, reality and Discovery shows
5. Recently addicted to blogging
6. Short-tempered, love to help poor people.
7. Good fighter with Bus-conductor and Police.

Hey jollyyyy, successfully got some points to produce. Thank god :)

Actually my rules are to pass on both these awards to my 15 co-bloggers but planned to pass on only 'Stylish award' as i have recently (Feb 1) awarded "One Lovely blog award" to my friend. Excuse me Ramya :)

Here comes the 15 Nominees for Stylish Award:
    http://www.kaarasaaram.com/
    http://padmasrecipes.blogspot.com/
    http://kavithavin-kaivannam.blogspot.com/
    http://foodsiluv.blogspot.com/
    http://usmasala.blogspot.com/
    http://tastyappetite.blogspot.com/
    http://apsaraillam.blogspot.com/
    http://traditional-indian-cooking.blogspot.com
    http://www.vazhayila.com/
    http://kichencorner.blogspot.com/
    http://cookingwithdipika.blogspot.com/
    http://funwidfud.blogspot.com/
    http://satyamangala.blogspot.com/
    http://ammaandbaby.blogspot.com/
    http://kurinjikathambam.blogspot.com/

My First Award !!! Yippeeeee !!!!!!!

Hi Co-Recipeexcavators,
    I am very eager to share a few words about my 1st award given by Revathi. When i was checking out her award post, i thought my name will not be added in the list, as am a new-comer to this blogger world. When i checked the name in 10th position, i was just flying, OMG !!! Its my name "Sangeetha Nambirajan", Thanks Revathi :) I didnt except such a wonderful award in a very short span of time as my blog is just a month old :) Basically am a lazy gal who will never-ever sit in a place continuosly for 10 mins but only my co-bloggers encouragements and motivations made me to post all these 40 posts. Thank you ppl and also will try to post my recipe pics to fullfill Revathi's long time suggestion :)



Its ur Turn:

1. Publish the given award in ur blog mentioning the presenters name.
2. Pass it on to few of ur followers or co-bloggers who deserve it.
3. Presenting this award to my below followers
    http://www.kaarasaaram.com/
    http://padmasrecipes.blogspot.com/
    http://kavithavin-kaivannam.blogspot.com/
    http://foodsiluv.blogspot.com/
    http://usmasala.blogspot.com/
    http://tastyappetite.blogspot.com/
    http://apsaraillam.blogspot.com/
    http://traditional-indian-cooking.blogspot.com
    http://www.vazhayila.com/
    http://kichencorner.blogspot.com/

Friends, Keep on going with ur new recipe posts. All the best and lets enjoy :)

Rava/Sooji/Semolina Kichadi

Hi Friends,
Its my 25th post. So easily and quickly attained this number since i started my blog in End of Dec 2010. So to enjoy that, have decided not to publish my recipe in simple way.



So here comes, my recipe for this 25th post with my "First Try Memories or with some Info" :) Let me give brief about the ingredients and preparation and will narrate the memories which ends with the sad ending for me and happy ending for my hubby. Very Interesting is it ??!!! Wait for a while :)


INGREDIENTS
Fried Rava/Sooji/Semolina - 2 cups
Vegetables - Carrot, Potato, Beans, Cauliflower, Peas
Chopped Onion - 2
Chopped Tomato - 1
Spicy Items - Cinnamom, Cardomom and Cloves
Fennel Seeds - 1 spoon
Ghee - 2 or 3 spoons
Ginger Garlic Paste - 2 spoons
Mint and Corainder Leaf - Handful
Curry Leaf - 2 or 3 twigs
Slited Green Chilly - 6 Nos.
Turmeric powder - Pinch
Salt - To taste
Oil - 1 spoon

METHOD:
     Keep a wide mouthend vessels. Pour spoons of ghee with a spoon of oil. Add spicy items, Fennel seeds and Ginger garlic paste and saute it for a while. Add chopped onion and tomato and saute it until the onion color reaches golden brown. Add chopped vegetable into the vessels and add turmeric powder and salt and mix finely until the vegetable mix with the all the pre-fried items. Pour a glass of water and allow the vegetable to get cooked by closing the lid. Once the vegetable gets half baked, add the fried rava and add the required water and stir the content finely and add the required salt to taste.

Note: Stir rava when you are pouring it into the vessel, to avoid the formation of solid balls of Rava.

Here comes my "First Try Memories" !!! :)
It was just a 2 months, we got married. I was so eager to give a try for a new recipe for the dinner i.e. Rava Kichadi. I was back from office with lot of enthusiam after getting the recipe tips from my friend. She asked to me take 2 aalaku or Big alss of Rava with some vegetables for 2 person (Me and my hubby). Accordingly i have kept a very big vessel, which can accumulate 4 litres of water :) and i have added 6 or 7 spoons of ghee(!) and added just a 2 spoons of masala items and i have followed the above method for the preparation. Rava Kichadi reached the final stage which filled 3/4 of vessel and looks as if i have prepared for 5 members. I was shocked on seeing the content and am damn sure, the kitachi will get wasted. Huh! i have controlled my sad feelings and have done so many garnishing/seasoning to add more attraction to taste the Yummy(!) Kichadi. Also have prepared a delicious (really it was delicious) coconut chutney which is the best combination for Kitachi. Before my hubby tastes it, me thought of tasting it. Once i licked a small amount, tears roll down from my eyes, cos it has no flavour, taste...... N O T H I N G :(((((
Its time for my hubby to taste. I dont want to comment on my first try. So, i have served him with a spoon of chutney and he was simply enjoying the Kitachi without giving any comments. I was tensed and i asked him about the dish, He said "It was really Yummy and Delicious" and he asked me to serve it for 2nd time. When he asked me to serve, i hugged him and was literally crying by saying "Itha poi nalla irukunu solreengaleeeeeeeee". He tried to convince me nearly for 15 mins like a kid and i have started eating the Rava Kichadi (No other go !!)
You know, who is the root cause for this Disaster ?? Its my SWEETTTT Friend, who asked me to take 2 big glasses of Rava. Most funny is, till now i didnt try that Rava Kichadi. So friends, dont think this recipe is worst to try, Recently i have tried Vermicille or Semiya Kitachi in the same method and it came our very well.