Does free food actually taste better

We went to this restaurant few days back. We just love Italian and also know how difficult it is to find a decent Italian restaurant which doesnt serve only pizzas and pastas. Man there is so much more to Italina than just that... wat happenend to the carpaccio's and the ossobuco their wonderful breads like panini and the simple yet elegant desserts like panna cota and zabaglione... tired of the tiramisu seriously.

But anyways thats all the italian cuisine that India or maybe delhi knows about. Never the less we(these things are never done alone) had to check out this new restaurant round the block.

The look was a killer. sooooooooooo simple yet elegant just like ma desserts... Well as usual i soooooo knew how the menu would look like.... few starters which had to have garlic bread with cheese.. man when will ppl learn to come out of that. it aint italian for God sake its just pizza hut.

Followed by a few pastas and then a few pizzas and then the lovely desserts (read tiramisu and a few ice creams)

But u know wat they gave me a wonderful surprise.... There was no menu card. u read it right NO MENU CARD. And did i like the sound of that. u know y? cause now i could hear my menu. i could understand the menu. some one would explain it to me rather than me doing the assumptions... and there was an interaction between me and a human rather than a peice of paper. this made me really smile. somethin else that did was a lil bit diferent of a menu. they did have carpaccio--- and ya i had to have it. their pizzas too were different then the most. they had pepperoni and good variety rather than just the plain margarita or even worse tandoori pizza--yuck.......

well knowing that it was an expensive restaurant though they still dint have their menu card and i dint know the exact value we sensibly ordered. a veg and a non pizza and a veal carpaccio(interupt to say was fabulous).

We dint have dessert cause yaaa it was tiramisu...

so we asked for the bill and guess wat it was on the house....

yeah they had started new and this was their way of tellin us to spread the word around. You know even though the food was good but not gr8 i still loved it... y??? cause free food does taste amazing my dear freind.

banana cake with ice cream

Okies... my next experiment.....

A wonderfully gooooey banana cake with home made ice cream...

Everybody loved it and so did i...

But ya as usual my dad would have preffered something more crispy and definately not sweet but none the less he liked this too...

Now for the recipe.

150 gms Refined Flour(Maida)

5 gms Baking soda

3gms Salt

40gms Unsalted Butter

100gms Sugar(powdered)

1 Egg

2 Bananas- More the ripe the better

50 ml Milk

20gms Chopped Walnuts

A few drops of vanilla Essence

Iccceeeeeeeeee Creeeeeeeeeammmmmmm

Preheat oven till 175 degree C

Whisk together all the dry ingredients other than the sugar and the walnuts. and keep aside

Cream buter and sugar till light and fluffy(thats the way our chef taught us.... always LIGHT AND FLUFFY)

Mash the bananas well. and keep aside.

Seperate the egg white and yolk. Now beat in the yolk and the banana mixture and a few drops of vanilla essence.- why essence cause the bloody egg stinks.

Now add flour alternating with the milk. Making sure there are no lumps-cause lumps of flour taste like......... i really dunno wat but pathetic.

Dust the walnuts with a lil flour and mix in.- why dust cause if u dont they will all settle at the bottom of the darn batter.

Now beat the white to a soft peak- wats that???? well use a spring beater and whip it till the moment when u lift the beater, peaks are formed but they are not strong enough to hold themselves pointed straight.

now fold this beaten white into the batter with light hands- basically u're incorporating loads of air into your batter which makes your cake nice and soft.

well now put it into a greased baking dish and bake it for 40 mins or till a knife inserted right at the centre comes out nice and clean.

Invert onto a wire rack and allow to cool.

Cut only when cooled... or u'll have nothing but sweet banana tasting mess.

Enjow warmed with a scoop of ice cream and choc sauce.

Its quite Fishy u see.......

So this is my first creation.......

It's trio of cheese crusted fish medallions topped with a frozen salad.

i'm sooo crazy bout cheese... literally crazy... my face completely lits up at the thought of that wonderful creation of that shephard boy.

this dish is a mixture of cheddar processed and parmesan.......

just amazing... the crust that forms on top is just so crunchy but it makes sure that the fish inside is nice and moist.... and the crunchy salad on top is just perfect to balance the flavours.... and most importantly the fish has been marinated in the two best ingredients lemon juice the acidic touch and dill.... which is just so perfect with fish.... an amazing combination and such a beautiful texture.

i loved it........

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