Gobhi Parathe

Long weekend (Thanks to Martin Luther King) had been going great, with a lot of sleeping. I am not sure when I am going to get out of the jet lag mode. The cold weather acts like a catalyst to the sleep! Yesterday was the day when I cooked all meals. Wanted to avoid eating leftovers from lunch in dinner and thus the paratha plan. I have never made gobhi parathe myself so a trial was the plan. They turned out to be great (my expectations from myself were pretty low today).

Here is my recipe which is mostly similar to the several others available online:

Ingredients:

1. Wheat flour
2. Oil
3. Water
4. Cauliflower 
5. Salt
6. Garam Masala
7. Green chili
8. Coriander leaves (I forgot to add these but you shouldn't)
9. Ginger
10. Amchur (mango) powder

Preparation:

1. Mix 1/2-1 teaspoon of oil (I use olive oil for almost everything in cooking) in the flour and some salt (as per taste) and make the dough (I usually use hot water) and set it aside.
2. Wash cauliflower and heat the flowers in microwave for 2-3 minutes to make them soft.
3. Grate the cauliflower and add finely chopped green chili and chopped/grated ginger.
4. Add salt, garam masala and mango powder. Add finely chopped coriander leaves as well.
5. Take 2 small balls of dough. Roll them each to about 3-4" diameter. 
6. Add the stuffing on top of one and place the other on top of this. 
7. Make sure to seal all around it. Roll and make it bigger based on your thickness preference.
8. Roast the paratha with oil on a pan. Ready to serve with anything you prefer. I like curd with paratha. You could also add some butter on top of the paratha but I am not a big fan of adding more calories on top of calorie heavy food on a lazy weekend.

Single Bed Quilt

Yet another bed quilt! This post has been in draft since almost a month. Made this quilt last year in November. The plan was to utilize all the scraps and make a quilt out of it. I used some of the old scraps along with new cloth. Since I haven't learnt free motion quilting yet, this quilt also had to do with the stitch-in-the-ditch quilting. I took it to India and now Mom has kept it for our home there. I had bought all material from Walmart. 

Some stats: (I modified the dimensions in between and did not keep track of all of them). 

Desired finished size:

50" * 90"        

Blocks:

8 * 17     

                     

Block size:

5.5" * 5.5" (finished)

Each block needs:

• 1, 5.5" * 5.5" piece of white/light fabric.

• 2, 3" * 3" pieces of colored fabric.

I bought these fat quarters to use for colored squares.

This is how I made a single block:

Sew the 2 small squares (placed wrong side up) on top of the big square (placed right side up) as shown in the pic on the right below. Then cut the triangle (as shown) leaving a 1/4" seam allowance.

Note that you will waste triangles with this but then those are very small and probably can be used for other purpose but this makes it a lot easier and quick to make so many of these blocks that are needed.