On Bench

I always used to wonder when my friends from other organizations used to tell me that they are on bench...i used to fascinate myself being on bench; no work; browsing all the news papers; planning where to go for the weekend; and all the laze and relaxation....

I being a lazy bug always wanted to go through that phase of my career; being on bench...but to tell it sucks!!! Big Time!!! Its been a week since i've joined; i'm not assigned any work; all new faces around; and a lot different from my previous office; over there i never had any new face; i used to play TT; FoozBall; though i dont smoke ; i used to out with my friends for a smoke; go for a walk by the lake; our just gaze out of the window to observe the lake...

Here i got sick of browsing; there was a time when i forgot what did i wanted to browse. Read news papers as am done with office related docs; after reading every column in the e news paper; then what; search recipes; search dog wall papers; think about what to cook in the evening; then whatt????

This is the most craziest thing to do at office; sit idle....

Simplest Pesarapappu

Hmm Monday morning; i never had any Monday morning blues...but this Monday was very painful
We've been to in laws for the weekend ; as we had to perform a pooja; for which we had to sit almost all through the day with an empty stomach
and the heat is at highest; it took off all the strenght that i had.
We started to back to hyd by a local passenger train and had to adjust myself between two fat ladies almost squeezing me.
The train journey was horrible !!!

Finally when i reached home; i was tired to move a step ahead; but still no other choice than cooking...
I opened the refrigerator to find no vegetable in there...just few dried curry leaves; semi fresh coriander and some
almost about die green chillies...

Painfully went to the kitchen; took my favorite pesara pappu(1 cup) and soaked it in the water.

I was too tired to first pressure cook the dal and then mash it and then tamper.

So i just thot I'll experiment by putting the tampering and dal and pressure cook the whole.

Then my cooking went on some thing like this

Add oil the cooker pan.
Add jeera, slitted green chillies and curry leaves.
Add onion slices; once its turned brown and transparent; add turmeric, crushed garlic(Yummy garlic is one God of all ingredients)
One more important flavor giver is coriander; chop it as thin and as tiny as possible.
Salt according to the taste.
now just add the soaked dhal with 1 1/2 cups of wate or more depending on much consistency you need.
After 3 whistles ; put off the flame
Open the lid to sniff the most exotic flavors haldi, garlic and dal.

Try this out when you are lazy to cook :-)

SenagaPappu-The Simplest Way

Ingredients:

1. KandiPappu/Sengapappu-1 cup
2. Slitted Green chillies-4/5
3. crushed Garlic Pods-2
4. One medium sized onion-sliced
5. Mustard Seeds- 1 tea sp
6. Jeera - 1/2 tea sp
7. karivepaaku - 12 leaves
8. Coriander- finely chopped
9. Salt according to taste
10. Red Chilly Powder - 2-3 pinches.
11. One medium sized tomato-finely chopped

Procedure:

1. Take a cooker.
2. Add 2 tbsp of oil.
3. Once the oil is hot; put the mustard seeds, jeera .
4. Once the above starts cracling, add green chillies and onions.
5. Once the onions get brown and transparent; add karipattha and coriander.
6. Now add chopped tomatoes and add salt and chilly powder.
7. Wait till the tomatoes become soft and the oil emanates out of it.
8. Now add the washed dal to the cooker.
9. Close the lid with the whistle on and wait for around 3-5 whistles(depends on the performance of the cooker)

Serve hot with rice/roti...
if you like add few lemon drops before serving
serve with onions and cucumber