Massive success with potato bread...

It feels great when the dish I tried ages ago turned out so nice.

Thank you so much. I found a new guinea pig. My househelp. She has to taste it, once she approves then all others get to eat it. But I do pray to Sai Baba...and warn him, look I am saying this prayer aloud. If I fail, people will lose faith in you. LOL

@ThatDisha I don't give him a choice. When you want god to help you, you should blackmail him.

@vandana7 haha he must be doing his part of work in making your bread taste good

@id_peace Not at all. Just that when you are in teens and early twenties, you try out dishes and feel happy at success. That joy is back.

It is not a cake..it is flat bread. It is actually a street food but can be ordered in any restaurant out here. Mine came out authentic. So I was happy.

Will you eventually be making and selling this as a home business?

Thanks Anna. Some hobbies as a youngster. Now I can enjoy once more. I forgot proportions but thanks to YouTube ..I managed to get some guidance.

@vandana7 YouTube is incredible useful to check old recipes and check how people do it.

@LadyDuck They give so many useful hints. One pancake with pineapple, I want to make that...

He does not like potatoes, so kinda we were eating potatoes once a month ..and I love potatoes. It was such a tragic life. LOL. He does not like tomatoes, as well as tamarind. We used to have tough time cooking something that has little or no tomatoes and tamarind. He also does not like spices. How do you cook for a parent like that? Now that I am past 60, I could also die any day. I decided I gotta live too.

@vandana7 yes you gotta enjoy life for yourself too.

@florelway I know ... I am doing it vengeance.

About time. I was tentative..but I managed.

Now you are talking... no dad never ever gives full marks to anybody...he is just born to criticize forever. LOL. But did I care? My househelp said it was terrific...better than what the lady at other house prepares. Personally, I thought it turned out great except that I could have reduced salt and green chillies. But it came authentic. Like how they serve in dhabas. On my birthdays I used to go to one specific dhaba eat one aloo paratha and one kulfi. But COVID changed that. Pony's cooking looks like lizard without head or tail skinned in a pan.

@DaddyEvil You did not think his cooking is atrocious? Sigh...an American will always stand by an American. Indians are at least honest.

@vandana7 That's because pony cooks what Kitty brings him... If that's a headless lizard, then that's what pony cooks. And eats.

They are very difficult to live with - believe me. Once he boiled meat in water. Sprinkled salt and pepper. Placed it in front of everybody at a party. He demanded everybody eat it that way as it was healthy and people develop taste to eat it that way.

@vandana7 Demanding that everyone eat is a novel way to conduct a dinner party.

I made some milk sweet. It took me over one hour. It turned out to have nice texture. But it was kinda too sweet for me. Today my househelp's grand daughter is coming to learn cake making from me. Tomorrow we are making some sweet for us. See...I am becoming increasingly evil.

@DaddyEvil Each day, I think of novel ways to damage others gut line. Imagine...

@vandana7 What is "milk sweet"? Oh, my... is it safe for you to teach the granddaughter to cook a cake? (Make the househelp taste it first... ) I already know you're evil... I don't think it's possible for you to get more evil.

Covid has really turned us towards cooking. And YouTube. LOL. I find so many dishes that I can prepare. LOL

What did you try?

@vandana7 I have been trying more things in the microwave, because we are without an oven right now.

I am ignoring him. He gets warned if he wants food, silence is the best policy. In COVID times, he hasn't much choice I suppose. But he is always blaming me...it is your cooking. That is why I am having constipation. LOL He goes once in two days and still complains. SMH.

@vandana7 How annoying! He'd better not complain or maybe he won't be fed! :-)

I am photogenic. Trust me I am old. :) Thank you for the compliment though. :) But it will be a couple of years from now before I can settle everything.

@oahuwriter Yes. It is actually a small room. As long as my father is alive, we will live here. But once he is no more, I have to find a place where somebody will check on me a couple of times a day so that if I have any health issues, they can take me to hospital and get me treated.

@vandana7 Ok. I'm living alone in my apartment. So you're going to live at a retirement community?

Thanks Rashna. Its been fun so far. :)

@vandana7 your welcome dear

I am baking cake today and milk burfi tomorrow...that is gonna be fun because my neighbors are also going to be joining in. Someday I will make kalakand, and another day I will make cheese cake. Cham cham and turkish delight...once I succeed with all that then I will press the accelerator on all hot savories. I am enjoying cooking.

@CuriousGab Thank you...no kidding ..you dd not know of kalakand and cham cham?

@vandana7 Wow,great. I haven't heard of kalakand and Cham Cham...sounds interesting Good luck Hope we get to see your tasty dishes and neighbors donot get diarrhea or something...good luck to them too. But I believe you will succeed

Monthly milk powder sugar and cardamom gives milk barfi.. Did you know that? 10 minutes..flat. And with butter and bread, and little bit of milk, and few dry fruits, great desert. I love YouTube. I sent my cake to a professional chef...remarks awaited...yesterday we made again, this time it turned out superb. That is why I sent it to a chef. The only flaw I could think of was ........ a pinch of baking powder was more ..it could be felt at the end...because of which the crust was also more brown. But it was like a professional bakery stuff. All my neighbors praised it. Credit to Pony for asking me to keep on at it. Now I am really confident of making cake...overconfident. LOL

@sjvg1976 Sigh...let me get the report then I will announce here...I suppose all these people from west get it perfect. Few Indians around me get it this right. Not any of my relatives I know. So kinda..I can be a show off.

@vandana7 I cannot tell or think unless I taste it

Me too. I made it a tad spicy but the next time I am going to mix it with cheese and check.

Thank you. :) It felt really good.

@ankurdini Good night. :)

@vandana7 welcome, good night