Thank You Series - 2

Blogging is so much fun but it turns a little sour when an anonymous leaves a nasty comment. But then I shouldn’t generalize about anonymous since there are a lot of sweet anonymous(es) out there who leave absolutely wonderful comments like these.

My darling husband bought a bag full of cranberries thinking it was cherries (don’t roll your eyes please; it happens a lot in our home). The same day chanced upon Krishna Arjun’s post on cranberries and was curious about this cranberry thokku recipe left as a comment by ‘ash’.
Thokku is pickle, where the main ingredient is used in a mashed form. There is mango thokku, gooseberry thokku, tomato thokku etc.

Cranberries – 4 cups, cook with a ¼ cup water until soft.

Heat ½ cup gingelly oil, splutter 1 tsp mustard seeds, lower heat and add fenugreek seeds and 1 tsp asafotedia. When the fenugreek turns a slight brown, add 2 tsp chili powder and 1.5 tsp salt. Sauté well and let the water evaporate completely until the cranberry turns a thick paste with no water. Stir occasionally to make sure it doesn’t stick to the pan.It tastes so delicious. Serve with rice or roti.

I am not sure of the shelf life so I have refrigerated the pickle. Thank you once again ‘ash’.

Dont laugh at the picture please, but I too made vettu cake. I think I am serious competition to Archana in cooking and photography. Poor girl! :-) . Had never even heard of such a thing until she wrote about it.

Then, I made Hyderabad Biryani following Nabeelas recipe and it turned out just great. This is as she says is 'Dum Biryani' where the meat and rice is cooked together.
Made cranberry salsa, following Krishna Arjuna's recipe

Thank you all once again.