Easy Mushroom Gravy

Prep Time: 10 mins
Cooking Time: 15 mins

Ingredients:

1. Mushroom - 1packet
2. Onion - 2 medium size
3. Tomato - 1 big
4. Chilli powder - 2 tsp
5. Salt - as required
6. Oil - 2 tsp
7. Mustard seeds - 1/2 tsp
8. Coriander leaves - finely chopped - 1/2 handful 

Steps:

1. Cut mushrooms into slices(medium size not very thin)
2. Chop the onions and tomatoes into small pieces
3. In a pan pour the oil. When it s hot add the mustard seeds and let the seeds splutter
4. Now add the chopped onions and saute till they become transparent.
5. Now add the tomatoes and a pinch of salt and keep sauting.
6. Once the tomatoes are cooked, add chilli powder, salt and mushrooms. Do not add any water as the water content from mushrooms will be enough to get the right consistency for the gravy.
7. Keep cooking for another 5 mins till the raw smell goes off. Now add the coriander leaves and turn off in a couple of minutes. Tasty mushroom gravy is ready.

This is a very simple recipe and goes well with rotis/dosa/idli. I made this simple curry and my husband loved it. Try this at home and let me know how many compliments you got :)

Mule In Action

Oh Mule!

You look so dumb and stupid

Making me dull and trepid

Dont Demand me to configure xmls

and aggrevate my fury levels

Why do you have all transports that never work

Worse than the MTC transport we have here

My messages wait forever to pass through your queues

Longer than the Free Darshan Q to meet Mr.Venkat

You claim to have topics

whose exec time is as long as our epics

Why do your selectors seem so rigid

i have opened all links to understand u and my fingers have become frigid

Please be bit considerate

Please work when i run you

And don't make others run

Oh Mule!

Demo in few seconds

Please work and let me continue work

extremist

Y am i posting dis???

A typical afternoon after a heavy lunch at kebab corner and as usual feeling sleepy with no work assigned for the day...wat am i expected to do?? read newspapers in the reception or play carrom or chat with friends...hav been doin dis all day...now lemme think of something new...something not in dis list...too lazy to think i ping another frnd of mine who seemed to be vetti too...and she makes a wonderful statement..."i accidentally happened to bump on some blog and later i realised tat it was mine"..even her blog s as inactive as mine..but am still so bored and she sends me her blog link with a warning tat i should not laugh out loud reading hers...reading her blog i got inspired and thought i should also post some new topic and send her my link for her to pass time..but i dont get any topic to post...so i thought i could type watever comes in a flow and  yeah i ve done it now..thanks for reading the crap so patiently..i myself cant make out wat i am trying to post now.. if u guys feel dis post makes any sense pls feel free to post comments on it.. :P

I dedicate dis  post to sowj who inspired me to write dis :P

mokkai mania

Tell Me Who Your Friends Are and I Will Tell You Who You Are ... even the vice versa s true... dis s jus a gist of a mokkai convo tat i had with ma friends sitting JOB+LESS in my office..

Acknowledgement - jaan, naatamai, lp and vetti - the gateway of India... ppl of the same lambda...


ok..some stupid ques and a stupid ans to tat..fine???
let me shoot t first ques
throw it malini
dont shoot
v ll die


y s red color red in color?
coz if its blue in color it'l b like its stealin blue's thunder

y is the world round and not flat?
coz u hav so many flats here in t world tat s round..but u cant hav so many rounds on a world tat s flat

what makes vetti VETTI??
when u type with capslock onnn.

y do v hav nick names for all ?
coz once upon a time, a guy calld nick wantd a diff name n nobdy wud grant tat wish 2 him..so in luvin memory of him


y is the sun orange in color n the moon white
coz orange bulb in sun and white bulb in moon n moon saves power by using tat philips low watt bulb

y am i the one whos been shooting all the qns?
coz shooting anythin else wud put me in jail

y did dhyan get her sheep doggie haircut?
coz she s a hybrid variety of sheep and dog

y r ppl sent onsite for jus 3 months?
coz they'd die n fmailies wud sue the company if it bcmes more than tat

y does lp come all chamathu whn everyone else comes so funky to office on friday?
coz lp's motto is expect the unexpected

y r ppl testing evry crap in the last minute!
kostin seems to be out of portion

y d?
coz e is on leave..coz e s busy flying

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Mission accomplished!!!

If some one asked me the question "Have u ever been to the kitchen ?" my answer would ve been "NO" til last week. But thn came the day which made me cook for ma aunt and uncle(poor species on earth. I tested my cooking skills on them). Here goes the actual incident of me trying out ma hand at cooking. My mom and dad go out to a wedding party. Me and ma sis sit at home putting lacha. Someone knocks at the door. I go open the door and find ma aunt and uncle. I call ma mom asking her to come soon and get something done for them. But she gets caught with her friends in the wedding hall and asks us(me and ma sister) to manage it. Poor gals! faced with a tough challenge now. My aunt offers to help us. But we were egoistic enuf to turn it down and try it ourselves. My aunt goes out to get things for pooja the next day. V both search for vegetables and could find jus tomato and onion. I start cutting the vegetables. My sis starts making the dough for roti. I light the stove and put some oil and fry the onion and tomoto together.(I ve seen dis being done in some programmes in TV) Then some salt and chilli powder. Now i turn arnd and look for something more to be added. But other items in the kitchen seem to be unfamiliar. I thought i can stop here and serve them though i was not sure if i was done. But then my sis was done with roti. So do i(my assumption though and i was so hungry ready to risk my prep). I serve the roti and my "tomato bla" (donno how to name the dish, so i named it disway...and seems to suit it too) to ma aunt and uncle.

I dint let out t fact to ma uncle and aunt tat it was ma first try. I was waiting for them to run to the washbasin and puke thr.. but my uncle seems to enjoy the dinner. And now he turns to ma aunt to speak out something. I was quite sure of wat he was abt to tel her. Uncle : " This tomato curry(oh! here s a better name. The credit goes to ma uncle for giving such a decent name to it) tastes awesome. Learn how to cook frm Malini" ..aahh wat an unexpected compliment. I was waiting for criticisims for ruining the dinner but was praised by ma uncle. Atlast ma mission turns out to be a grand success and now i confess the fact to ma uncle tat it was my first try and i pretended to be honest :P

Got Screwed at t last moment

I could recollect those days when we were busy studying for the tutorial tests every day. our Our inter hostel comptetion - "Zephyr" was round t corner...All gals from my hostel were busy with it..but the opp was happening with infosys...we ppl were hitting our heads hard against t text books..Some of ma close frnds(other discipline) were really angry with me since they found me not participating in any of the events..I too felt guilty about this..but still i was helpless... Then came t chance for me to participate in the competition.
It was the final day of the competition and still i had not contributed anything...The final event was a presentation from each hostel tat would bring out the uniqueness of the hostel. The presentation had to done using flash. There came the chance for me...i pushed aside all ma books(they were really heavy)..Me and my frnds(all from infosys who were passive like me til then) decided to pitch in with great enthusiasm and make our hostel's presentation t best of all..Me and Sowmya had started working on the presentation while two others were out to take some pics to be added in the presentation. We started around 12 noon. It was supposed to be ready by 7 pm. Thank god..we had sufficient time...
We were busy working out the plot..oops!! we were busy to t extent tat we evenforgot to have our lunch..Everything was goin on well...It was ard 7 pm..we finally added one another pic to the presentation...TRAPPED!!! a virus too was imported along wit the pic and the whole presentation got corrupted..[:(] ..
We tried to fix it by calling another expert team[:P]...Nothing worked out...there was hardly any time left for our presentation and we had nothing with us to present..So all the teams put our hands at the presentation and it was ready within 15 min..Guess wat??? The Presentation was done using MICROSOFT POWERPOINT!!! Thank goodness there no time left for the presentation and was not presented in the audi..