Happy Summers…

Memorial day just got over.. 3 wonderful days of absolutely doing nothing feels great.. Even no cooking, sometimes, even though I love to cook, there are days when you just want to .. The last 3 days have been fantastic.. We went to parks, on walks, caught 3 lovely movies, oh and to mention, tried out great food  and I just do did not want these 3 days to end… This morning when the alarm rang, I was like grrrr… stop that and let me sleep…

The summers are just beautiful, long sunny days, pretty flowers in bloom.. The East-Coast is just so wonderful that way.. Unlike the UK, where there is the interim rain, and by interim I mean pretty much every second day in the Summers, East Coast US is much different.. cool, breezy and they have a climate, unlike the UK oh well they just have weathers… The lovely green system around the EC makes it all the more wonderful and there is nothing better that to enjoy the play of various green colours, blending in harmony..

Blending Greens

Sometimes we would drive for hours, only to stop by and admire the scenery or just plonk ourselves in a park, sit for hours.. Most of the times it is unplanned… Like it was yesterday and after a wonderful 3 days, I wanted the closing meal of the weekend somewhat relaxing, and that it would remind me of those beautiful long summer days…

So We got home and it was time for Frittatas…

A classic summer picnic dish, but could also double up as a great dinner

Spinach Mushroom and Ham Frittata

Spinach Ham and Mushroom Frittata..

You would need/:

• eggs-6 large
• Onions-1 cup chopped
• Garlic cloves-2 copped
• Mushroom- roughly chopped- 1 cup
• Ham-  sliced thinly-  2 cups
• Spinach- I medium size bag ( 300 gms)
• Olive oil
• Butter- 1 stick
• salt
• Pepper
• Balsamic vinegar
• Parmesan cheese – (if you do not have that then just plain simple cheddar)

crispy soft and Golden!!

How:

Take a skillet, A deep skillet would help. Heat half a stick of butter, with 1 table spoon of olive oil, saute the onions and the garlic till they turn golden. Add the ham, cook it on high heat for a minute or 2 till it starts to crisp up.. Then add the mushroom and continue to saute. At this point, add a teaspoon of balsamic vinegar and the salt… Let the flavours soak in and then add the spinach.. Just wait long enough for the leaves to wilt.. If you leave it for too long,  it tends to ge watery.. Meanwhile. Crack 6 eggs, season it and gently beat with 2 table spoon of milk. Now use the other half of the stick of butter add it to the skillet with the frittata filling and then pour the eggs.  Cook it over low heat and spread the cheese..  Pre-Heat the oven to about 400 degree F and once the eggs start to firm up, stick it in to the oven for about 10-15 min, when it slowly turns golden.  There you are, serve it with a mix of salad leaves..  Though I had mine just like that…

Perfect way to end the Memorial day weekend…

Sliced!!

An Omlette

Saturday mornings are the best days of the week… I mean after a hectic week that is all I look forward to.. No early mornings, no grogginess, and most important, no rushing through food.. You know something, I hate rushing through food, it totally puts me off eating … This is the only other day in the week when I can do what ever I want at whatever speed I want to..

The Best Feluda Ever

Lately, my husband and I have been into a lot of detective movies, mainly bengali, but we would not miss a sing;e Feluda movie (character created by Satyajit Ray) we have seen it all from Joy Baba Felunath to Royal Bengal Rohoshya, and loved it all, though LalMohon Ganguly (a.k.a Jatayu ) is irreplaceable…

Gorosthane Shabdhan.. Must Watch

Royal Bengal Rahashya

e to move on to Bomkesh Bakshi, (another detective character created by Sharadindu). The latest of Bomkesh Movie has been out for a while and both of us have been trying to get our hands on it and had been unlucky so far, until yesterday, while I was getting the house in order, Pritish came running up to me, and he said his exact words: “i have such news that you would leave all your work and come running to me.”.. That was finally Abar Bomkesh is out and on Databazarmedia, the website we use to watch bangla movies, and believe me, what seemed like  a task for ever, was done in 15 mins, yeah I was that desperate..

Abar Bomkesh

So all done, now you just cant watch movie on its own, you need food…  Food that is both satisfying and really very easy to make…  So I had like 4 eggs the the refrigerator and nothing like an omlette, quick easy and ever so satisfying…

Serves 1

Here it goes

2 Eggs Beaten to satisfaction

1 table soon of milk

A pinch of salt

Ground Black pepper

onion 1 medium finely chopped

Tomato- 1 medium, finely chopped

Mushrooms-5-6 , thinly scliced

green chilly -1 chopped

Butter-1 table spoon

Oliveoil 2-3 table spoon

parsley -fresh (preferable) if not then dried..

How:

Take the 2 eggs in a bowl and add the salt and peper, beat it well, then add the milk and keep beating till it has a frothy consistency.. Meanwhile heat your skillet with the olive oil and butter on medium heat.. Once the eggs are beaten, add to the skillet and make sure the egg mixture covers the whole pan… As the eggs start to sizzle add the vegetables , spread them evenly on the eggs and then let it cook for a minute or two.. then carefully lift the side with the spatula and bring it over the omlette so as it overs a little less than half of it.. Then bring on the other side of the omlette on top of the covered side and it resembles almost like a flatten wrap… your eggs should be ready by now..  garnish with parsley and serve… Repeat for another one…. You can have multiple fillings like ham and cheese and sausage.. but for me and onion tomato mushroom omlette is a winner all the way..

As for the movie it was really good:D

Saturday Brunch!!

Weekends are usually very lazy for the both of us…  5days of packed schedule, work, gym, grocery shopping late night calls to offices back in Asia, weekend is the only thing my husband and I look forward to, from Monday morning on… Saturday Morning is my favourite day, I still know I have one more day left to absolutely do nothing and not feel guilty about it…  Saturday mornings for us usually start around 10 ish, with calls back home to India, skype chats etc.. so one can imagine, there is no such thing as breakfast for us on Saturdays.. By the time we are all done with family talks, it is way past 11:00 and almost nearing lunch time…

That is when the brunch bit comes in… This saturday, the brunch kind off became very late lunch, We had a Pot Luck invitation and I was busy fixing that… Anyhow, by about 2:00 pm Prithwish (my husband) was growling, more like his stomach was and I had to whip up something very quick. At this time, no ingredient is as handy as eggs and thanks to a very easy and quick recipe that I had come across in Nigella Lawson’s site, brunch was ready in 15 mins..

Mexican Scrambled Eggs

Though, I shall admit, I did improvise,

Here is what the recipe read; Mexican Scrambled Eggs, I stuck to the basic recipe but since it was for the 2 of us, I used 7 large eggs, 2 large tomatos and I did not have corn tortillas at home so I used 3 large wheat tortillas.. The rest of the recipe was same, only at the end of it, I grated some smokey cheese on top of the scramble and garnished with chilly flakes, that gave a very spicy twist to the whole dish and all I can say was nothing was left on the skillet….

Eggs