Hospitality

When I hear the word Borosil, I feel nostalgic! I will tell you why. I am a Science post-graduate and have spent most part of my college in the laboratory. The glass equipments, may they be test tubes, beakers or burettes and pipettes, all were from the company Borosil. When ...

Making good curd: Some people like curd very much. They feel they should have quality curd. This is an interesting method to make good quality curd. Heat milk again after it boils once and let it cool to the room temperature. Add a little buttermilk or curd to it. Cool ...

We at A Journalist Reveals were invited for the launch of Stuffed Crust Pizzas from Pizza Hut by Hitaishi Chaudhary from their PR agency Text 100. Her mail read: Pizza Hut cordially invites you on a gastronomic journey with gooey scrumptious pizzas and soft delicious stuffed crusts. Gear yourself for ...

Today is Govardhan Pooja and Annakoota. Today, it is traditionally accepted that we eat food and snacks prepared in our own kitchen. No outside food or ones given by someone other than close family members cooking in one kitchen. Most importantly, milk rice and curd rice are made today. Among ...

Today is Lakshmi Pooja. It is time to make 5 sweets and 1-2 salty dishes. Among the 5 sweets, teratti pal, pal payasam, sheera, abhisheka panchamritam and naivedya panchamritam can be made. Naivedya Panchamritam: Beat as many seedless dates as you want in milk. Beat 5 sapota fruits also in ...

Today is Naraka Chaturdashi. It is imperative that one sweet and one salty dish be made at home. Take one glass chana dal and one glass moong dal. Pour one heaped teaspoon good quality ghee in a preheated kadhai. Roast the moong dal in it and keep it aside. Pour ...

Today is Dhantrayodashi. People visit friends and relatives from this day during Diwali. We suggest here an easily made fresh sweet for today. Take a grated coconut. Grate some jaggery and keep it separately. Keep diamond sugar crystals in one small bowl separately. There are some fennel seed peppermints available ...

Diwali begins from Rama Ekadashi during Kartik month. The daughter-in-law coming from a doctor family was in jeopardy as to preparing sweets for Diwali. The doctor did not like to store sweets and insisted on finishing the same within the day it is prepared. The daughter-in-law called my Mom. Mom ...

Sweet Aapam can be prepared from leftover rice. Soak overnight udad dal about 1/3rd measure of the leftover rice, in water. Next day, grind the udad dal into a very thick paste. Also, grind the rice into a very thick paste and mix the 2 together. Grate one cup of ...

Leftover rice can be made into payasam. Roast all the leftover rice in ghee and place it aside. In a preheated kadhai, pour some ghee with a fistful of cashew nuts, a fistful of dried grapes and a fistful of charoli. Roast well and keep this also aside. Roast grated ...