Reincarnation of ....?!?

Reincarnation of Jesus? Buddha? Anne Frank?

The title is way too evading from the real content. The blog is actually about the reincarnations of yesterday's not-so-good dinner or today's left-out lunch:-)
ha ha ha....Yeah...The blog is just about how I rendered some fine make-over to some of my left-out or not-so-good dishes!

Cooking for family of two is often cumbersome and time-consuming. Oh..wait.. let me justify
It makes not much sense (at least to me) to cook close to 1 hour a day and prepare something of quantity that should get over the same day. We can neither eat the same dish again nor throw it for that matter.

To obtain the trade-off between spending less-time in kitchen and make variety of dishes, I used to reincarnate some of my creations;-) :-)
There are days that I have spent more time in thinking about the procedure of reincarnations and preparing it than I would have spent in the kitchen otherwise. But the excitement and the fun that I got out of these experiments are  so high that I tend to miss my goal...the goal of  lazing around with kitchen work.


Rasam to Sambhar/Milagu Kulambu

Thakkalai Rasam can be made into sambhar with addition of Dhal and appropriate Vegatables.
Puli Rasam can also be added with vegetables made into Milagu kulambu...
Since we generally don't add pepper/Jeera into Sambhar it can be called "Pulila Kari". That is not imaginary dish. It exists in the reign of south indian/south tamilnadu cooking.

The type of Rasam that was made and the sambhar/kulambu that can be made is purely speculative. Tampering of the spices can be easily made according to your family taste. Welcome the Person who complains on bad tastes to Lab(kitchen) to test the dish on experiment. This way, the person is on limelight and can be conferred ownership on failures. If that kind of person at your home is you , I can guarantee you will never try this ;-)


Veg. Biryani/Pulao rice into Veg. Manchurian

Mash the left-over biryani or give a small grind in the mixer grinder without water.
Make the dumplings into ball of required size.
Use Corn flour(or corn flour + rice flour) mixture to cover and make the ball firm enough to be fried. Fry it in the hot pan for crispy dry veg Manchurian to be had as snack. It can also be gravy with the usual ginger+chilli sauté sauce

There are few more reincarnations that I perform which I think is obvious. Anyways listing few of them and hoping to add few more interesting experiments as I remember or as I perform new ones.

Left out Boiled/Cooked Vegetables curry (carrot/Potato/Cabbage/Beans/Corn or mixture of the same) made for south-indian lunch can be transferred into the following depending on the need of the day.

1. Puffs /Samosa (with its usual cover procedure)
2. Patties (by mashing+ rolling over corn flour + Rolling it down into desired shape + cook it over the pan.
3. Stuffed Parato
4. <xxx> Masala dosa(sprinkled over dosa batter)
5. <xxx> dosa ( Grind the vegetable well and mix it over the dosa batter itself)

Please note the clear difference between name of  4 and 5 ;-)

I am closing this blog not due to lack of notes for the topic but for the fear I can visualize in your eyes about your planned visit to my home and for the pity that you have already developed for Nambi and Abhinav ;-)