Fish Curry | Macher Kalia | The Recipe

This is how I cook my macher kalia (fish curry). Its so easy, just try it. Chop some onions, tomatoes, garlic, ginger and green chillies. Put them in a grinder. Grind them until they become a paste. Cut the fish into small pieces (as you like it). Then clean the fish under running water. Take a kadhai (large fry pan) and put some musturd oil in it. Heat the pan in a mild flame. Now drop all the fish one by one into the fry pan. Fry all the fish under mild flame until they get a reddish colour. Then pour all the paste on the fish in the fry pan. Stir gently and add some water if needed. Now add some haldi powder, salt, dhania powder, jeera powder, and chicken masala ( yes, you heard that right - I use it in macher kalia, interesting is int it). Again add some water and stir it. Now add some tomato ketchep sauce to it. Stir well. Now cover the lid and simmer it for 15 mins. After 15 mins, sprinkle a pinch of garam masala powder on it and quickly cover the lid and keep it till lunch (or dinner). To garnish, add freshly chopped green dhania patta on it. I sometime use grated cheese if there is no dhania patta near by. Believe me, I love to experiment with food. Next time I plan to add some chopped pepperoni pizza.

Spinach on Gandhi Jayanti.

Today was 2nd October 2008. And today was the birthday of Mahatma Gandhi. So, the stock markets was closed. I had nothing to do. So, I thought it will be great if I help my mom with her cooking. Today, there was no non-veg item. I was searching for something to cook. I saw a bunch of spinach in the fridge. I took them out and decided to cook it in a very special way. Mom started washing it under running water. I got ready with a plate and a knife. After chopping it into small pieces my mom added some vegetables to it. Then in the kitchen she fried all the spinach along with the vegetables in a non-stick fry pan. Then she added some salt, pepper, haldi, and some more masalas. I saw a bottle of kasundi (mustard) in the fridge. I added some to the spinach. The mustard paste gives a good aroma to it. Finally, my mom added some water and covered the pan with its lid. After 20 mins its all done. At lunch we had rice, spinach, dal, aalu bhindi. Oh ya, the spinach....it was lovely. After lunch I had an apple which helped me to digest the musturd spinach.

Today I visited Guruji and did some research.

Today I decided not to use Google as a search engine. Why? Because today I was looking for some information which was related to India. So, I decided to visit Guruji.com and found that it has improved itself a lot. Yes, you can call it a copycat of Google. However, Guruji has its own limitations. For example, if you do an image search with the word 'bollywood' it returns some pics about indian history. I mean what is going on. I was looking for some bollywood faces and not about history. So, again its not so perfect.

However, one thing that made me happy was its music search. I searched for 'Summer of 69' and found the exact match. The best part is that when you click on any song it simply plays it on your computer. I think they need to work very hard if they want to win over Google. I am sure that one day this website will launch their very own web based e-mail service. And they also need to give an answer to Google's social networking site Orkut.

Carmel Convent English Medium School Madhupur Class 1992

Original scanned copy.

Original scanned copy enhanced.

Cropped and enhanced.

Top row from left.

Binod Singh, Bipin Singh, Sachin Jha, Sunil Tekriwal, Sanjay Singh, Manoj Agarwal and Iqbal Khan.

Second row from left.

Shakeel Ahmed, Sandeep Bathwal, Bikash Bathwal, Chandip Singh, Aman Singh, Amit Singh, Suman Paul and Amrendra Jaiswal.

Third row from left.

Pradeep Poddar, Rajesh Das, Shantanu Dan, Irina Goswami, Sandip Modi, Sandeep Banerjee and Sajan George.

Fourth row from left.

Rashmi Dalmia, Neelam Fatima, Elsi Uthup and Kanchan Verma.

Finally, we have our class teacher Mr. Mitra popularly known as Sir Mitra sitting on a chair.

The Indian Dal

The picture above is a typical Indian style soup called "Dal". Have you heard of the famous "Dal Roti"? This is it. It is very tasty as it is made up of various ingredients and masalas. After cooking a bowl of dal my mother kept it on the dining table for a while so that it may cool down a little. I got this opportunity and clicked some photos of it. I love cooking too. And also taking pictures of them. I will be posting it all in this blog in future. So keep visiting this blog.