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Ah it’s Friday !!

Yup it’s Friday.. does it matter to me, actually no.. Now all days are same. But this week was really hectic. My son was down with cold and cough. My husband was on business trip. He came back yesterday night, so I know what day is today 😝. Handling toddler all alone is really difficult when they’re ill. I don’t know how single mom’s do it all alone. Really they are super women’s. Mostly I spent whole week just taking care of my son, cooking food for him, laundry, cleaning the mess around the house. Unfortunately weather was really good but I couldn’t enjoy. I took my son out for walk yesterday evening, couldn’t stop myself going out. I met one lady, who was really sweet. She also explained how happy she was because of sunny weather. I realise weather does matter people mood. Hoping to see more sun in coming days in UK😊 I didn’t cook food properly for myself whole week, yes felt lazy because have to cook food for alone. I was tensed also because my son unwell. He was not eating ...

Jeera Rice/ Cumin Rice

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Today I wanted to cook rice for my husband lunch box, but bored with plain rice. Then suddenly realised jeera rice go well with palak mushrooms. I prepared palak mushroom for dinner yesterday.. It’s easy and tasty way of cooking rice😊 I usually cook jeera rice with palak mushrooms, palak paneer and pepper chicken. Jeera/ cumin is good for digestion. I usually don’t add any spices like cardamom, cloves like restaurants receipe. I prefer to keep it simple because usually my side dish with jeera rice will be full of spices. I used pressure cooker, you can use normal cooking pan also. I used butter, you use oil or ghee also. But butter or ghee gives different flavour, which I like it a lot. Ingredients 1. Basumati Rice - 1 cup 2. 2 tablespoon of jeera/cumin 3. 15 cashewnuts 4. 2 tablespoon of butter/ghee 5. Salt to taste 6. Water - 2 cup Wash basmati rice and soak it for 30 minutes, then drain all the water In a pressure cooker, heat the butter. Keep the f...