Rasaswad

Prep a 15X10 tray (usual small cookie tray) by laying a parchment paper and spray with a butter spray. Preheat oven to 350.   Sponge: Beat 4 eggs with a whisk attachment in the stand mixer. Add 3/4 cup sugar, one tbsp at a time and beat until ribbon stage. Meanwhile, mix 2 tbsp milk, 3 tbsp oil, 1 tsp vinegar and 1 tsp vanilla. Mix the wet ingredients into the eggs and mix just a bit. Add a 1/4 tsp salt and mix. Now sift 1 cup AP flour + 1/4 tsp baking powder on the eggs and fold with a spatula. Add the batter to the baking tray and bake for 10-12 mins. Once it cools a bit, sprinkle some icing sugar on it, add another piece of parchment and invert on a cooling tray. Now roll with the top parchment in the roll from the short side and let it cool completely.  Filling: whipping cream + sugar + vanilla and a couple tbsp of milk powder. Whip until stiff.  Once the cake cools, unroll it, spread strawberry jam, and then the cream mixture and roll it again. Cover with parchm...

 Heat olive oil , add diced shallot s, sauté for a few minutes, add crushed garlic and saute for another minutes or two. Zest a lemon and keep the zest aside. Add crushed red pepper, lemon juice, pasta water, cream, capers, salt and pepper and let it cook for a few. Add the pasta (we used a lemony pasta from TJs), more cream, chopped parsley, lemon zest, and a knob of butter. Also add more pasta water. Cook everything for another minutes few seconds and serve with Parmesan.  https://alwaysfromscratch.com/creamy-lemon-sauce/#recipe

 Cook half a cup of short grain rice with 1 cup water, pinch of salt and a splash of oil for 3-4 whistles and let cool. Prep the pineapple into large cubes. Dice half a red onion, 2-3 cloves of garlic, some ginger. Dice half of a extra firm tofu into small cubes. Also chop some red pepper, mushrooms and green beans. Heat oil, add chili oil to it (I used Trader Joes' along with the chilli flakes), add the onion and saute for 3-4 minutes. Add ginger and garlic and saute a bit more. Add the veggies and tofu, a pinch of salt and saute. Add the rice and pineapple, soy sauce, dark soy sauce, sesame oil, curry powder (I just added a small pinch each of turmeric, red chilli powder and dhania jeera powder). Mix everything and add some chopped cilantro. Serve with some roasted peanuts on top. Super comforting!  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Mkgb8Fxr_o

Boil pasta as per the instructions. Blanch spinach and add it to a blender jar. Add cannelloni beans, hemp seeds, nutritional yeast, parsley, lemon, olive oil, salt and pepper, and blend until smooth. Add it to the pasta and serve.  https://youtube.com/shorts/D2J8TQiKyZ8?si=RrWdbPQFrCHfZJ0r

 Soak Chana daal, and cook in a pot with salt and turmeric. Keep it al Dante keep dry. Spread and let it dry. Amchoor, fresh dhania, mirch, salt. Methi leaves. A slice of soaked bread, or fresh bread crumbs and a spoon of besan. Make kababs and fry. 

 Wash them properly and chop. Add in a kadai and let them shrink. Then add some oil, tomatoes , salt and  cook.  Stir occasionally. Once most of the moisture evaporates, add good amount of amchur, red chilli powder, dhania powder and a bit of turmeric. Let all the water dry out.