Word clouds from similar time of previous years

This is the October 2005 (I had 22 post that month, highest in 2005) word cloud. Dominated by my bike trip with the guys and l.o.v.e and some escapes into arbit reading like Kant on Time. heh. Times change. The stomach is more real than many of those things.



October 2006: Echoes from my Kerela rip in August...



August 2007: Photography and Cleartrip



September 2008: Echoes off the boulders of Hampi (lingering echoes, they must be, from April), sunset's at goregaon, mahabaleshwar ... and the need to get away

This is how the blog looks to Wordle.net

Current word cloud view of my blog as Wordle.net sees it .. Lots of cooking there as you can see .. ;)

Wanga Batata Rassa Bhaji, Solapuri

Cut each wanga (brinjal, baingan) into 8 longitudinal pieces
cut a couple of potatoes into small chunks
finely cut 2 onions (if you got 4-6 wangi and 2 potatoes)

take oil, heat.
put haldi, hing and let is mix
add onion and saute till soft
add salt and crushed garlic (to taste, I prefer 4-6 cloves)
saute a bit more
add 2 large spoons of kala masala (or if you dont have that, mixture of garam masala nd chili power)
add 2 chopped tomatoes and cook a bit till tomatoes give up the juice
add the wangi and batata and mix
add 4-6 large spoon fulls of crushed goundnut power
mix and cook for couple of minutes
add water and bring to boil and let it simmer till potatoes cook. wangi will cook before the potatoes. this is rassa bhaji so put water accordingly.

we ate it with rice. was not bad.

sorry, forgot the photo. :)

Bhendi Fry Kolhapuri

Bhendi-fry.jpg, originally uploaded by quasi's mobile.

Wash and dry the bhendi.
Cut thin slices of Bhendi
smash lots of garlic
take oil in kadhai and heat
put rai and jira till they crackle
add the garlic and lots of kadipatta and chopped green chillies
fry for little while
add bhendi and fry for 5-10 minutes on very low flame
bhendi will shrivel, become darker and reduce in volume.
sprinkle with ground nut power or fresh khobra scrapes
sprinkle kothimbir

eat!

q:8/10
percy:8/10
nipra:7/10

Photo was a left handed shot with slippery mobile while eating. :) Sorry.

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Reflections

Reflections, originally uploaded by quasi's mobile.

Faint echo on -y.

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Harihareshwar Beach

A lightening charcoal sketch. (An attempt at least!)

Evening Sky

Evening Sky, originally uploaded by quasi's mobile.

Oh how Glorious thy colours art O' Nature!


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Tondli Batata

Tondli Batata, originally uploaded by quasi's mobile.

Tondli Batata
Slice (thin) the cleaned Tondli and Potatoes
Heat oil, add halad and one finely chopped onion and saute till onions pink
Add red chili powder and little 'goda' masala and salt to taste
Add potatoes and cook for 4-6 minutes
Add Tondli and one finely chopped tomato
Cook till well done (leave the tondli a little rare for crispiness)

Henjoy!

Nipra : 7/10
Percy : 8/10
Q : 7/10
Raju : 7.5/10

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Egg Curry Sholapuri

20090831-EggCurry.jpg, originally uploaded by quasi's mobile.

A meal well eaten.

Egg Curry and Fulka with a Tomato-Onion-Curd-Chilli Salad. All finished. Four happy souls.

Egg Curry Sholapuri
8 eggs hard boiled for 5 minutes
onion + dry coconut power fry-roasted in oil on a shallow pan till deep brown
above mixture when cool, ground together with ginger, garlic and coriander.
haldi and kala-masala sauted in oil quickly
ground mixtures cooked in this for 1-2 minutes
salt to taste
eggs and a little water added and cooked.

Salad
1 onion shredded
3 tomatoes shredded
2 green chillies finely chopped
200gms of curd.
salt to taste
all mixed well together


percy : 8.5/10
q : 8/10
nipra : 8.5/10

hehe

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Red Maggie

Red Maggie, originally uploaded by quasi's mobile.

Heat a little bit of oil.
Put an onion, finely chopped, in it and saute.
add Red chili powder to taste.
add 1 finely chopped beet, saute for some time
add dark soya to it and saute for a minute
add a little bit of water and cook for some time
add more water for 2 maggies
add 2 maggie masala sachets and bring to boil
add the noodles from the two packets
cook till well done

RED MAGGIE !

Nipra gave it 8/10

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Offerings to the Gods

20090824-Flower.jpg, originally uploaded by quasi's mobile.

How we try to please Them. :)


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Finally thinking

Finally thinking, originally uploaded by quasi's mobile.

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Ullhas falls

These are the Ullhas Falls. The start of the Ullhas river which flows from here (Khandala) into the Thane creek. The falls are a fantastic view on the Mumbai-Pune highway in the ghats. Because of the scanty rainfall this year (2009) the falls are 1/4 their usual size at this time of the year.

Human Powered (tm) Giant Wheel.

This is how most of the giant wheels are powered in rural India

Lake View

lake-view.jpg, originally uploaded by quasi's mobile.

Family shifted to a different town. New house has a lake view. Hope it bring peace and prosperity. Hope by brother starts writing now. :)


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