Honeymoon Curry !!!

Ingredients:

1. Egg plant: 1 medium sized.

2. Potatoes: 2 medium sized

3. Tomatoes: 2

4. Green Chilli: 2

5. Onion: 1

6. Bayleaf: 1

7. Paanch Foron: Small amount

8. Oil: 4 table spoons

9. Turmeric powder: 1/2 teaspoon

10. Dhania Powder: 1/2 teaspoon

11. Red Chilli Powder: 1/4 teaspoon

12. Jira Powder: 1/2 teaspoon

13. Ginger paster: 1 table spoon

14. Garlic paste: 1 table spoon

15. Salt to taste

16. Sugar: small amount

17. Water: 1 cup

Procedure/ Directions:

1. Cut the egg plant, Potatoes and Tomatoes into shapes of small cubes. 

2. Cut onion into  thin slices.

3. Cut Green Chilli in the middle half-3/4  way

4. Heat oil in a frying pan with medium heat.

5. Put Onion, Chilli, Paanch Foron and Bayleaf in it and stir until the onion in simmered in oil and soft.

6. Put Ginger and Garlic paste and stir for sometime until they mix well.

7. Put Turmeric powder, Dhania Powder, Red Chilli Powder and Jira Powder and stir well to make a paste.

8. Then put potatoes and stir well so that the spice mix with it well. Cook for 2 minutes or so, until you feel, the potatoes are well immersed in oil and spice.

9. Then add, Egg plant and salt. Stir and mix continuously until the spice mixes with it well. Put 1 cup water in the mixture and decrease the heat to 1/4 of max and cover the pan with the lid and let it cook for 5-6 minutes until the the water has been suffiently evaporated and made the potatoes soft.

10. Then uncover lid and put the tomatoes in then and stir for some time to let them mix. Taste the salt. If the salt is not ok to taste, add some more salt and stir.

11. Add some suger and stir continuously.

12. When you feel that the vegetables are cooked properly, use a spoon to taste. If everything seems ok, then turn off the stove and serve nicely in a bowl.

Comment:

You can eat this with rice or tortillas or chapatis. It's yummy!!

Some Hadiths of my liking

Hadith - Sahih Bukhari, Muslim and Ahmad

... Anas said, "I served the Prophet of Allah, upon him be peace, for ten years. During that time, he never once said to me as much as 'Oof' if I did something wrong. He never asked me, if I had failed to do something, 'Why did you not do it?,' and he never said to me, if I had done something wrong, 'Why did you do it?' "

Hadith - Bukhari's Book of Manners # 296, Muslim, Tirmidhi, Darimi, Abu 'Awanah, Hakim, and Ibn Hibban.

... Nawas ibn Sam'an reported that the Prophet of Allah, saaws, was asked about doing good and evil. He replied, "Doing good is having good manners. Doing evil is what troubles you inside and what you would not like others to know about."

Volume 8, Book 73, Number 4:

Narrated 'Abdullah bin 'Amr:

Allah's Apostle said. "It is one of the greatest sins that a man should curse his parents." It was asked (by the people), "O Allah's Apostle! How does a man curse his parents?" The Prophet said, "'The man abuses the father of another man and the latter abuses the father of the former and abuses his mother."

Volume 8, Book 73, Number 6:

Narrated Al-Mughira:

The Prophet said, "Allah has forbidden you ( 1 ) to be undutiful to your mothers (2) to withhold (what you should give) or (3) demand (what you do not deserve), and (4) to bury your daughters alive. And Allah has disliked that (A) you talk too much about others ( B), ask too many questions (in religion), or (C) waste your property."

Volume 8, Book 73, Number 67:

Narrated Anas bin Malik:

The Prophet said, "None will have the sweetness (delight) of Faith (a) till he loves a person and loves him only for Allah's sake, (b) and till it becomes dearer to him to be thrown in the fire than to revert to disbelief (Heathenism) after Allah has brought him out of it, (c) and till Allah and His Apostle become dearer to him than anything else."

Volume 8, Book 73, Number 83:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Prophet said, "Whoever does not give up false statements (i.e. telling lies), and evil deeds, and speaking bad words to others, Allah is not in need of his (fasting) leaving his food and drink."

Volume 8, Book 73, Number 84:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Prophet said, "The worst people in the Sight of Allah on the Day of Resurrection will be the double faced people who appear to some people with one face and to other people with another face."

Volume 8, Book 73, Number 90:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

The Prophet said, "Beware of suspicion, for suspicion is the worst of false tales; and do not look for the others' faults and do not spy, and do not be jealous of one another, and do not desert (cut your relation with) one another, and do not hate one another; and O Allah's worshipers! Be brothers (as Allah has ordered you!")

Volume 8, Book 73, Number 117:

Narrated Abu Huraira:

Allah's Apostle said, "The signs of a hypocrite are three: Whenever he speaks, he tells a lie; and whenever he promises, he breaks his promise; and whenever he is entrusted, he betrays (proves to be dish.

Volume 8, Book 73, Number 124:

Narrated Abu Said Al-Khudri:

The Prophet was more shy than a virgin in her separate room. And if he saw a thing which he disliked, we would recognize that (feeling) in his face.

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