A Crescendo of Taste

Imagine. A beautiful, white sand beach with shimmering water wetting your feet as the red sun sets into the horizon before you. The temperature cools down and you walk back to a hot plate of onion stuffed, lemoned chilli bajji.

The green shiny chilly is stuffed with a delicious stuffing paste of cumin seeds, coriander while the outside is deep fried with besan dal and rice-flour, all together making a slurpy hot tangy and tongue tingling bajji. But wait, there is more to come, A lemon sprinkled chill salt mix of tiny cut onions take us to the crest of the this hot wet and crispy mirchi bajji. Isn't it just amazing to listen to the waves, to feel the breeze and to taste this amazing item ?

There is never just one of these as one can never stop at one of these master preparations.

Oh well, you might argue that the mirch is too hot! Yes, and your perseverance payed....

Cut the fried mirchi bajji into smaller pieces and fry them again. Sprinkle the same lemony onions and make it into a plate of them. Put some into your mouth and feel your mouth filling up into a crescendo, to the taste, of the not so hot yet tasteful mirch, the crispy orange crust and the tangy onion.

Believe me, there is never a day better than walking and talking along the beach, listening to the sounds of the waves, the breeze touching your cheeks and a bajji to taste....

The beach beckons you to its loving embrace, feel it, cherish it....

Subway Melt.....

Subway is a provider of a whole new deal of food opportunities..Combinations of fresh veggies, well cooked meat and to add to the yum factor...sauces....

Given the right combinations and the wholesome sauce dripping, bulging sandwich just gathers in your mouth and melts down to your stomach with ease.

Combination is the golden key here...here comes the saucy secrets.

Try the sweet and sexy HoneyOats or the tasty cheezy Paramesan Oregano instead of the white and the brown bread..Really, call it Italian or Indian, its still plain white and plain brown unlike the other bread brothers.

Toast it! We like it Hottttt !!

Add Cheese? Most of us never know there is different types of cheese that can be added American, Italian, etc. Explore.. Cheese tastes good!!

Greenzzzz: Never say all...Try this, Lettuce,onions, tomatoes, green peppers, two rounds of pickles and Jalapeno's, olives if you'd like....

Remember, pickles and cucumber dont go together well. No place for a cool cucumber in a melt..

Meatzzz: Try tuna on honey oats or bacon, Ham (chicken or just ham), mutton ham..

Now for the best... the Sauces.

Without adding salt & pepper which usually spoils the taste..

Add the melting mayo or the minty mayo, the hot sauce and the southwest sauce.

Add two rounds of each to make it juicy.

Sum it up and there you have it! The melting subway sandwich..

The potato chips are essential life savers while you chomp away at the 6" toasted sandwich.

Warning: The taste is an acquired one. Try different combinations with different proportions and mixes of sauces and bingo, you will find a taste to them.

May the taste be with you!!

Haleem: First Melt

Have you ever been around in the busy starless nights of Hyderabad waiting for the start of Ramadan ?

I think of this and the first thing that comes in my mind is Haleem.

A wholesome melt of ghee with slow cooked mutton spiced over with cinnamon cloves and wholesome wheat, Haleem tastes heaven on earth when splashed with lemon.

Yumm!

The Nawab's Biriyani.

The majestic Nawabs of hyderabad have had their fair share of this and now, its ours to relish... enter the soulfully spicy, tantalizingly aromatic, sinfully indulgent, eye alluring Dum Biryani of Hyderabad.

The slim long cooked basmati rice flavored with turmeric and saffron when mystically layered with slow cooked spiced mutton or chicken thickened with melting clarified butter, sweet white coconut milk, sautéed cinnamon-cloves with a treasured mystic mix of saffron, salt, coriander, aroma filling mint, fried paste of ginger, garlic and ground green chillies under indirect heat(Dum)...heaven. This is the amazing Biryani of Hyderabad.

The balance of the preparation gives the characteristic taste of the biryani. Hot and spicy, sweet and caramel onionized, melting moments with butter, aromatically minty, tasteful of smooth slow cooked hot chicken or mutton... the mouth watering list is endless.

Some unusual preparations give rise to magical flavors, like the biryani cooked in the earthen pot add a distinct enigmatic flavor of potter clay along with the myriad of flavors your taste buds can experience one the scoops of rice and mutton or chicken.

The biryani when sided with some of the curried chicken gravy and the raitha(thick yoghurt mixed with onions, tomatoes and green chillies) or even the curried eggplant gravy can spark the characteristic taste explosion.

Even the vegetarian Dum Biryani of Hyderabad gives you all the taste and no words to speak of

Royalty at its height, the first spoon of the sizzling hot flavored rice and the soft mutton or chicken, overwhelms our taste buds so much that words are never enough to describe the implosion of reactions. One would experience what a heavenly mix of ingredients can do when melted and juiced in our mouth and eventually lands on our waiting buds....... I leave the rest to your minds and your watering mouth.

Soulful Taste. Enjoy the happiness of the content soul.....

Travelling Sautéed Curry Shrimp!

Sautéed Curry Shrimp flavored with cinnamon & cloves mixed in gold fried ginger garlic with a hint of tangy tomato and hot green chillies....its golden, its spicy and tangy and its totally mom's recipe. A treat to the eyes, taste buds and a happy soul.

The specialty of this particular fantastic preparation is that the shrimp was first prepared as a curry and then sauteed in hot gingelly oil giving a characteristic taste of mellowed spice and it travelled 500 miles to my taste!

Juicy soft and fresh shrimp right off the fisher-woman's basket is good enough to make one remember the smell of the beach and the feel of the coastline of The Bay of Bengal, beckoning us come back to them. The spiced oil made the shrimp succinct.

The spices were amply used while preparing the curry while keeping in mind that sauteeing it would mellow it down. The ginger garlic paste was just the right secret balance adding to enigmatic tastes.

The whole preparation just tingles the taste and gives one the cause to think happy thoughts.

Soulful Taste

All of you whose indulging taste buds tingle to the delicious whiffs of pot cooked curries or sautéed juicy chicken or the sight of cheese melting on the sizzling hot omelet or the smell of frying cinnamon and cloves filling the air with a wholesomeness pleasant smell..........

I write this tantalizing blog to give spicy, yummy, tasty, chocolate melted Insights to the Soulful Taste. Treat your thoughts to a soulful taste.. the check is on me.

I promise you to a singular taste, a happy soul and a soothingly content mind.