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Posted by shilpikap 
· November 14, 2021 
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Arbi ka Achaar

Put your left over boiled arbi to use, a tasty quick recipe! Achaar in 10 minutes, yes that’s possible. 

Arbi ka Achaar
  • 4 boiled round arbi
  • 1 tablespoon methi dana fenugreek)
  • 2 tablespoon slightly roasted saunf (fennel) 
  • 1/2 tablespoon Lal mirchi (red chilli)
  • 1/2 tablespoon haldi (turmeric)
  • 1 tablespoon vinegar
  • 6 tablespoon oil
  • Namak (Salt) to taste

Recipe:

  1. Peel and cut arbi into round slices
  2. Slightly Heat oil in pan and turn off gas.
  3. Put methi seeds, saunf, haldi, Lal mirchi, salt in the oil and mix well
  4. Mix the cut arbi in the oil.
  5. Once the mixture has cooled, add the vinegar. If you need, you can add a little more vinegar since it is the preservative.
  6. Put the mix in a glass jar and keep at room temperature for 2 days.
  7. On day 3, check the salt and if needed at more.
  8. Well your arbi Achaar is ready, refrigerate and enjoy!

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Posted by shilpikap 
· October 20, 2014 
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Why Millennial Taste Buds?

One of the reasons it took me time to start this blog was because I couldn’t figure out the name. It needed to allow me to write about what I wanted to write about rather than restrict me.

As much as I wanted to talk to grand-moms and get recipes from them, I also want to experiment with 5 minute foods. As much as I wanted to experience the different spices, I also want to talk about drinks.

I’ve been feeling that todays kids know pasta, pizza and burgers but do they know Uzhunnu Vada or Dabeli. I didn’t want the food and cooking to be only about the past but also about the present!

I want this blog to take a life of its own. No direction just one post at a time!

I thought of instinctivecooking.com and easttowest.com and couldn’t decide what this blog should be  named or what in particular it should be about.

A dear friend finally suggested Millennial Taste Buds and very sweetly told me that I was too old to be of the Millennial Generation sometimes known ad Generation Y, but atleast my food and cooking could reflect how young I felt!

Well Millennial Taste Buds it is!

Ok Ok… promise the next post will be about food or cooking! Enough of the build up to Millennial Taste Buds!

P.S: Do leave a comment! Would love to hear from you!

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About Millennial Taste Buds

Writing about food and cooking has been an idea that I have been thinking about for some time. I hope with Millennial Taste Buds to share some of the experiments, journeys, travels and recipes. Some mine and some of others and I hope it lets me get out and meet people!

As a kid, I was actually scared of cooking or kitchens in particular. I remember a pressure cooker blowing up just after I left the kitchen and thinking “Boy, this is a dangerous place”. As a teenager, my brother made an omelette for me when I came back from school because I didn’t know how to.

In school, I cooked because I had to in home science and at those times my dad and mom were always proud. But the reality, I didn’t know how to cook. Even thought my sister went to cooking class to learn the basics of home cooking and turned out to be the most amazing cook I have seen, I didn’t want to try it!

I am a technology geek at heart and would tell my parents, give me every gadget in the book that will cook and cut and even measure for me and you might get some food out of me.

From those stories as a child to being in Richmond, USA and realising that either I cook or I go hungry. What saved me was this lovely recipe book that my sister made for me with even attaching samples of the dals, so I can identify them! I couldn’t believe that the first thing that I made was Rajma and that also in a pressure cooker!

Another person who influenced the way I cook was my sister-in-law who lives in the USA, she taught me that Indian food doesn’t always means hours of cooking and that you could adapt the ingredients based on what you had at home!

Today at home, I have no microwave, I rarely use the mixer but instead enjoy cooking in a traditional oven or using a mortar and pestle! I don’t like packaged food, I enjoy fresh herbs! I travel around the world and India and have to visit the local markets! Buy local spices, local produce! Talk to local people about their food and get inspired!

So join me in this adventure of instinctive, intuitive and interesting food and cooking!

Shilpi

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