Wake Up and Smell the Cake

My snack stash finished, but there's still work from home. So yesterday night I made some cookies. Oatmeal with sunflower seeds, to make use of ingredients in the pantry and also those stuff makes it kinda healthy. Although 2 cups of sugar AND flour aren't very healthy but hey, there needs to be a balance right? Haha. Recipe from allrecipes.com Ingredients 250g butter (I used salted) 1 cup caster sugar 1 cup brown sugar, packed 2 eggs 2 cups flour 2 cups oats (I used quick cook) 1 tsp baking soda 1/2 tsp baking powder 1 tsp vanilla essence 1 cup sunflower seeds 1 cup mini chocolate chips Mix the batter using the normal creaming method i.e. butter with sugar, then with eggs (one at a time), then flour, then oats and finally the seeds and chocolate chips. Drop the dough by teaspoonfuls, on a baking sheet and bake at 180 degrees Celsius for 12 minutes. The cookies will flatten out, won't look pretty but it is still crunchy and yummy! Snacks done. Now I ...

Tried my hand at mutton mysore! My ultimate favourite whenever I have rice set meals at Indian restaurants. Boil 1kg lamb before hand. Although you can just boil just like that, I wanted to make the meat slightly frangrant. So I fried an onion, few cloves of garlic, an inch of ginger, threw in the usual bay leaf, cardamom, clove, star anise and boiled. Note to self, pressure cook for 15 minutes only. I did at 20 and the meat was soft yes, but that is if I were to eat it straight away. Since I was gonna cook it again, I should have par boiled it. Now for the spices! Spices to fry: 1 tsp fenugreek seeds 1 tsp fennel seeds 1 tsp cumin seeds 10 cashew nuts (obviously I added like 30 or more) 2 cinnamon sticks 5 star anise 4 cardamoms 3 cloves To saute: 5 cloves garlic, pounded 1 inch ginger, pounded 3 red chillies, slit lengthwise 3 onions, sliced 3 stalks curry leaves 5 tomatoes, sliced Curry powder: 5 tsp chilli powder 3 tsp coriander powder 1 1/2 tsp cumin...