Noodles omlette - Snack Recipe

Hey I am back with another snack recipe to satiate your greedy appetite! And this aint too healthy option but is a yummy one either for breakfast, snack or JLT!!

Well the recipe is called noodles omlette...

Ingredients:

Noodles - 100 gm
Onion - 1 chopped
Tomato - 1 chopped
Green chillies - 2-3 chopped
Fresh Coriander chopped - 2 tbsp
Besan - 1/2 cup
Eggs - 1
salt as per taste
oil - to fry and boil the noodles
water - 2-3 tbsp
Method:

Boil the noodles in water with 1 tsp oil (it prevents noodles from sticking to each other) for 5-7 mins. Once done, wash the boiled noodles with cold water to remove the starch. Use a colander for it. Now in the boiled noodles mix all the ingredients except oil with water to make a thick paste like batter.

Now on a non stick pan spread the batter like you would do for a dosa. Make it thick. Now add oil little by little till it is done on one side. Turn it and fry till the other side is also done. Serve it with sauce of your choice.

Coorg by Road - A trip to remember!

A long weekend holiday and Bangloreans want to run away from this maddening place. So did we...With limited greenery options in the GARDEN CITY, people want to make the most of the nearby scenic places. But with this summer, your options are limited. You need to strike off most of the places of your list given the scorching heat. The remaining ones being the hill stations....ooty, kodai...But with a ten month old....those options too don't work out(7-8 hours driving can be cumbersome for them n you) So we planned Coorg. Well it is supposed to be a hill station but the weather report said otherwise. Since it was better than Bangalore, we decided to go.

Then started the hunt for a place to stay. To our surprise, all properties were almost full, at least the ones that we wanted to go to. It then reaffirmed my belief that people are waiting to take a holiday be it any season.. any price...Well lifestyles are to be blamed.. with working couples finding time to meet and share time on these holidays.

Finally after hearing a 'NO' from almost everything that we liked (from high budget resorts to economical homestays), we were initially disappointed. But two days of sheer hard work;-) showed results and we booked this place called 'Natura Vista' for two nights.

Day 1: 18th April

We started early from bangalore at 5:45 in our Etios GD (diesel cars are still easy on pocket;-). It is always good to start early to avoid the traffic and get out of the city as soon as possible. Sherry was still asleep and it was a good thing for me. GPS suggested three routes. Mangalore - Bangalore highway via tumkur road, mysore road and malavalli road in the given order. Yet we wanted to take the Mysore road after reading the reviews on the net. It was a lovely morning and within 1 hour we crossed Ramnagarm and Mysore road is very well maintained except a few occasional bumps.

Mysore Highway

It was eight in the morning and we decided to have breakfast. We had already crossed our favorite option - Kamat lokaruchi in the wee hours. There were these boards of 'Up South' which follow you throughout till you reach that place. A lot of money spent on advertisement...Wish they had spent it on the food quality. The place looked clean and ambient. The food almost took our faith away from south indian dishes (we are quite fond of them). Horrible taste. Yet the good thing was Sherry was awake and also finished her breakfast:-)

Upsouth Restaurant

After a wasteful 45 mins we started again and this time got lost after Srirangapatna. GPS talks about a bypass of 15 kms which avoids the city traffic but it was closed and we ended up on some kachcha road for about 3 kms. And finally after trekking through the bumpy roads, we were connected to the highway. Google should upgrade its map facilities where one can choose from 'only highways' while travelling long distance. It takes you to some funny places in dsiguise of 'Shortcut'. A tip: Please see for yourself the highways and continue on them than blindly following the google map.

KRS Road

Finally we reached Kushalnagar around 11:30 pm and thought of taking a detour to the Tibetan Monastery. We didn't quite like it probably coz we have seen better and bigger ones. After quickly packing from there we reached our destination in Hooror. Here the GPS was very friendly. What a lovely property. Its not a homestay. Actually a small bungalow built only for guests. It is all surrounded by coffee plantation and all you hear is the chirping of birds. Even the hosts stay a few metres away from the bungalow. So literally no one to disturb you on the holiday. We had sumptous lunch prepared by the hosts and crashed on the bed. It rained while we were asleep and a lovely weather welcomed us when we woke up. It was quite cool and sherry needed some woollens which I had carried on host's advice. She was sweet enough to prepare all the meals for Sherry.

Tibetan Monastery

View from the balcony

They arranged a Barbeque and folks from the other cottage joined us. (Yes...there are two cottages). It was fun talking to them. Even Sherry was quite excited as the host's son and their dog had joined us too. After a long day and another round of sumptuous dinner we went back to our room for yet another peaceful sleep.

Day 2 : 19th April

We checked out a few touristy place on the net and almost everything looked dull except Dubare elephant camp. So we decided to go there. It was half an hour drive from where we stayed. Again Google had suggested some funny and kachcha road. But this time we were wise enough to take the highway and  our car thanked us enough for that.

Dubare Elephant camp

Dubare was like another fish market. Looked like the entire tourist lot had come in there. It is a very beautiful place sans the crowd and chained elephants. They offer elephant ride (the queue was longer than the tirupati ones)...elephant bathing and feeding. A sorrowful sight to see those chained elephants. It is across the river and one can take a boat ride which costs around Rs.30 per head (return fare). If you are an adventurous soul you can even cross the river  stepping on the rocks in between. We too wanted to do it but with Sherry hanging on to us it was a risky proposition. So boat ride was our call.

Spent about 3 hours there and went to Madikeri for lunch. Again browsed for good places to eat and found this place called 'Raintree'. Thought of having some good coorgi food but to our sheer disappointment they had everything else but coorgi food. Thankfully they also had kerela food and we both love appams. So we ordered appams, mutton stew and some chicken started. Overall average taste.

Raintree Restaurant in Madiketi

We were back to our cottage and again went to the bed. Peaceful sleep that too just in pure nature was fulfilling. We had again asked for a barbeque as we could not afford to go for a plantation walk with Sherry along with us. This time it was only three of us and still loved the experience under a clear sky and twinkling stars.My husband enjoyed his photography sessions thoroughly

cottage road

The next day we woke up early....went for walk on the road with dense plantation hugging us from both side. We were actually breathing pure oxygen which is rare to find here. Memorable Experience!

A walk in the plantation

 We left the cottage at about 11 AM and this time took the Mangalore -Bangalore highway as suggested by our neighbors in the other cottage. Oh What a mistake! The Hassan periyapatna road which is about 25 kms is painfully bad and it took us two hours to cross that road. On the way we stopped for a small break by the riverside which was quite relaxing. (after hassan-periyapatna road)

riverside on the way

 Finally reached the Blore- Mlore highway which is automatically good as it is a national highway. Surprisingly there are hardly any food joints on the highway. After a long drive for about 2 hours we found this place called 'Malgudi' and gulped the food down in no time.
We reached bangalore at about 7 pm in the evening with few breaks. Eight hours was too long for Sherry and she did become restless.

All in all a good trip with lots of memories.