Tasty Masty Foods

French Fries also known as Finger chips or potato fries, and Alu chips in kashmir. The name French fries originated from Belgium during world war-1, where official language of solidiers was French and Amricans solidiers stationed there dubbed the name. In India potatoes were introduced by the Portuguese which they called "Batata". Britishers introduced potatoes to West Bengal as a root crop, 'Alu'. Amazingly there are  over 5,000 varieties of potatoes all over the world and China is the largest producer as a country and Mc Donalds is the largest buyer worldwide as a company. Potatoes with its skin are a rich source of vitamin C, Potassium, fiber, B-vitamins, copper, manganese and lutein. The unique way to make French Fries using solar enery as one important step in the process, is something you might be hearing for the first time but believe me, it works wonders at maintaining the crispy texture and an added taste to it. French fries are a crazy delicious dish,W

Meat "mutton" known as "ghosht" in urdu language and "maaz or natti" in kashmiri language. I know we still have a good stock of qurbani (sacrificed eid meat) available and don't want to bore with routines dishes on the plate. Taste matters!!! We have been eating meat varieties cooked either in the shape of wazwan (a traditional pakage of approximately 36 different dishes in kashmir) or through other recipes of different regions. We eat meat either by means of cook, roast, boil or fry and why not taste the "ghosht ka achar today??" Pickling meat used to be more a routine practice in older days to preserve meat when we had no refregirators but today it is more of flavour and taste than preservation. Although the shelf life of pickled meat is short but it still catches your attention and activates the taste buds. It is a quick pickle and uses vinegar and lemon with special spices in. comparison to the traditional pickles which are p