Ramblings Of A Two Month Old & A Plate of Lemon Rice

My name is Karma, Kitchen Karma.

As some of you already know, I am a fledgling food blog. The good news is I have just completed two whole months of my existence and the thrilling news is that I have a looong way to go.  I  am realising that I am born at an exciting time when lots are happening in the world of food and food blogs. I sure am delighted to be alive.

I am being nourished by my creator Suchi (more on her later and none of it good!) and all of you, my dear friends who visit me every day. When you look at my page, drool over my photos, smile while reading my content, wow over my recipes, I swell with pride. You may be unaware but I try my hardest to capture your attention with my new post for the brief few minutes you are here. Sometimes I do a cartwheel or two to keep you here longer. And when you leave me a comment I feel like the cat who has got the cream and eaten it too. I purr with satisfaction and blow you a kiss. I am sure many of you felt my love and gratitude.

Another exciting part of my day is when Suchi takes me to visit your blogs. We play and frolic with each other  while you ladies and sometimes a few gentlemen natter on. 

Apart from friends we also visit other blogs. Sometimes we stumble upon these blogs which blow my breathe away....man the photos they have, the recipes they flaunt, the followers they have, the number of comments they receive--it all makes me turn a horrible shade of bottle green with envy. I so want to be like them. If only Suchi would listen to me. *Sigh*

Oh ha Suchi. Let me tell you a bit about her. I was started by a slightly cantankerous woman. Man, she is one whimsical lady, you won't believe the number of drafts lying unfinished in my folder. She just starts typing a couple of sentences or sometimes even a paragraph or two and then leaves them. I mean finish the post and publish it. My number of posts will increase, no, that woman has other ideas. She goes off to her kitchen to cook something else and starts yet another post. I do not want to sound sexist but women are sure moody beings. And being her blog, I have no choice, but to follow her random wishes.

Rather I like that husband of her's much better. Indranil, that is his name, is a sharp eyed guy who misses nothing much. That guy earned my undying gratitude by correcting innumerous typos and spelling mistakes while Suchi is composing. Also he designed my blog header, which he doesn't like much, but impatient Suchi forced him to put it up. He is working on another header, which is a cool one with fishes and carrots, lets see when  he puts that one up.

So basically this is what two months have been about, growing up slowly in the family of food blogs with your care and support. Thanks a lot for being my friend.

P.S. We are in Facebook, where Suchi is posting photos of their various London eat outs, please do join us.

P.P.S Also Suchi has started tweeting (smirk, smirk, she is intimidated by that site), you can follow her blabbers tweets here.

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This is my first Blog Hop Wednesday and I am paired with Rudra of Mom's Corner. Her blog is a veritable feast of South Indian food. This was lucky for me, since my husband loves South Indian food. After his 5 years stint in Bangalore he is picky about his sambar, can give a long lecture on whether it is cooked the Tamil way or the Andhra way, keen on his rasam, loves lemon, tomato, curd and other such rice dishes. After toying with the idea of making sambar, loosing nerve I choose the easy way out. I made Rudra's lemon rice, several times over. Her lemon rice is simple, not many spices and my husband just loves it. The first time I made this, I served it with fish in tamarind gravy and my husband polished it all off. Calamity I had not taken any photos. So I made it another day and that day the photos came out all horrible. I was grumbling about it when my husband suggested oh-so-casually that I should make it yet again, just for decent clicks, not for him. But the lazy me decided to pass off the indecent photos, rather than make this yet again.

Ingredients:

Preprepared Rice-- 2 cups

Lime--big, juicy one

Handful of peanuts & cashew nuts

1/4th tea spoon of mustard seeds

1/2 table spoon of roasted chana dal

1/2 table spoon of urad dal

1/2 tea spoon of tumeric powder

2 green chillies, de-seeded and slit in the middle

1 small onion finely chopped

Few curry leaves (my husband for all his love for South Indian food 

cannot stand the smell of curry leaves, so I skipped these)

Salt to taste

2 tea spoons of oil

Lots of cilantro for garnishing

How To Prepare:

In a frying pan, heat the oil, add the mustard seeds, once it starts to splutter, add the chopped onion, after a minute or two once the onions start to look glassy, add the dals, nuts, green chillies, haldi and salt. Fry it for a couple more minutes, till the smell of haldi goes away and remove from heat.

In a bowl, add half a lime's juice with the rice and add the fried masalas and the chopped coriander. Mix well, taste, if it does not taste of lime, you may need to add some more lime juice. 

Second time I served the lemon rice with Rasi's Aloo Masala. It was a treat.