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Cooking time, here is chicken65 from my wife for you guys. I hope you all will enjoy as I enjoyed a lot.

Life is a learning curve and here it is really encouraging for me because I am very novice at cooking, I cook various things and learn as much as I can. I love chicken dishes hence it also makes me learn more recipes on it. I found a yummy dish named chicken65, it takes less time to cook than other chicken dishes. Chicken 65 is very popular in south India as it is believed to be started from there. Let me tell you a funny story behind this chicken item, I was really confused by the name, my friend said it as “Chicken 65”. So what I did, searched the web and looked for chicken 65. Wow, do you know what I see now? Some says the chicken needed to be 65 days old to taste good. Well, how would I know the age of the chicken that I just bought from the market? I also found an article that says the recipe needs 65 ingredients to cook, I lost all my interest reading these and thought to give up. Isn’t it really funny? Lol!!!

It is a fresh search from me and this time I named it chicken65 so got the correct recipe. BTW I got to learn from web that this funny name came from a military canteen. Normally people in defense use number for food items instead of real names, the recipe use to be at 65th place so it became popular as chicken65. Don’t worry this dish don’t need 65 ingredients anymore.

Recipe for chicken65 that can be served to 4 people

• Chicken – (1lb) (I prefer boneless chicken)
• Sliced green pepper – (2 regular size) (hari mirch)
• Regular cumin seeds – (½ tbsp)
• Coriander leaves – (5-6 sticks)
• Red chili powder – (½ tbsp)
• Egg – (1)
• Curry leaves – (5-6 leaves)
• Salt - (As per taste)
• Cumin powder – (½ tbsp)
• Ginger and garlic paste – (1 tbsp)
• Red food color (if u like)
• Chili garlic paste – (2 tbsp)
• Corn flour – (3 tbsp)
• Chopped garlic – (1 tbsp)
• Chopped ginger – (½ tbsp)
• Black pepper powder - (½ tbsp)

How to Cook Chicken65? Here is the process to cook delicious chicken 65 at home.

Cut your chicken in small pieces and add little bit of salt, ginger garlic paste, chili powder and corn flour to it, marinate for 20-30 minutes. Then add the egg to it and mix it well. Egg just gives a nice coating to the chicken. Then fry the chicken in the hot oil, see the image how it looks after it is fried. Add little oil in another pan and add some cumin seeds to the pan when the oil gets hot. When seeds start crackle add chopped garlic and chopped ginger to it.. Then add curry leaves, coriander leaves, and chopped green chili all together You can also add more ginger garlic paste and mix all the remaining spicies to it. When the mix gets boiled and starts leaving the oil add the chili garlic paste. If you want you can add red color, I usually add the color because I like to see the cooked chicken beautiful. Just before mixing the chicken add little water so that you can mix them well, remember to add very little water. Cook the chicken for 2-3 minutes or you can wait till you see the chicken getting dried, now your chicken65 is ready to be served. Before serving sprinkle little lime juice because it will raise the taste of chicken more.

Chili Chicken, I always loved this curry and finally my wife cooked it for me for the first time. I thought this will be interesting to learn and write a post on how to cook this. I remember about my teen age when I was totally crazy about chili chicken, I used to visit my friend’s home and ask her sister to cook for me. I used to visit different restaurants to try this curry, finally I learned this and here is the recipe for cooking this at home.

Chili Chicken Recipe:

- 3/4 lb (330 g) chicken (I prefer boneless chicken)
- 8 onions (I prefer more onions)
- 1 capsicum
- 4 small green peppers (4 chilies)
- 1 tbsp ginger paste
- 1 tbsp garlic paste
- 1/2 tbsp salt (depends on your taste)
- 1/4 tbsp red chili powder
- corn flour
- soya sauce
- tomato sauce
- vegetable oil

Cut your chicken in small pieces and add some salt, chili powder, ginger paste, garlic paste to it. Remember to cut the chicken to half the size you want to see in your curry because this gonna pop after cooked. Marinate it for 15-20 minutes. Now start chopping the onions, make the onions to 8 pieces. Fry the onions adding little salt to it, you can drop the green pepper when onions are turned little red.

Add 2 tbsp soya sauce and 6-8 tbsp tomato sauce to the fried onions. You can also add the capsicum here if you like it, I don’t like so I skipped that in my curry. Let it cook in a low flame for 3-4 minutes and switch your attention to chicken in the meantime.

Add 8-10 tbsp of corn flour with little water, mix it carefully as you might add more water and make the mixture very light.

If you add water carefully then you will not turn up in wasting any corn later. You can dip the chicken pieces to this corn mixture before frying it in vegetable oil. Wait till the fried chicken turns to be red as it is shown in the picture. Be careful while frying the chicken as the water from chicken can lick at anytime and causing to split the hot oil on you.

Once the chicken is fried mix them to the cooked onions and cook it in low flame for 5-7 minutes. I love to have chili chicken gravy styled so I added little water while adding the chicken to the onions. Here is your chili chicken ready to be served to 4 people with fried rice / chapatti / paratha.

Do you ever realize how shopkeepers take your advantage when you trust them? This is a story of a subway restaurant whose cashier cheated me for last 4 transactions. I regularly visit to this subway restaurant so I became a known face to the cashier, later I stopped asking for the receipt as I knew the rate of my sub. Jignesh Patel/Bharat Patel took the advantage when he saw I am not asking for receipt and every time paying through credit card so he started charging me $7.35 instead of $5.58.

I work for Gaebler Ventures LLC and my office is next to this subway restaurant from 615 W. Lake St, Chicago. I have seen this cashier handling the counter for last 3 years so I doubt if he is the one who owns the restaurant. I asked him for the business card and he handed me one which has two names Jignesh Patel and Bharat Patel on it so I don’t know what his name is. I love subway subs and chicken teriyaki is my favorite one. I normally visit to Jignesh Patel’s subway restaurant 2-3 times a month and I take a footlong chicken teriyaki sub with no drink and snacks. The rate of this sub is $5 and comes to $5.58 with tax. Every time I use my debit/credit card to buy the sub, the cashier noticed that over the time and started billing me more seeing that I am not asking for the receipt after the purchase.

I was going through my statements then I realized I have been billed for $7.35 from the same subway restaurant for 4 times in month of January and February. I decided to go and buy another one and crosscheck what he is billing for. That day he billed me $5.58 then I showed him my statements and asked why he billed me $7.35 for last 4 times. He said me “the combo comes with $7.35 so you might have taken the combo for last 4 times”. I was surprised to listen that from his mouth as he knows I don’t take the combo, I was expecting he will apologize and return my money. I left my statements and visiting card with him and asked him to get back to me. He said to get back in 2 days but he has not called me in last 10 days.

Later I wrote to SUBWAY from their “ASK US” page, here is the detail from our conversation.

Hi,

This subway is near to my work place and I have gone for lunch for 4 times in month of January and February. The cashier Jignesh Patel kept charging me $7.35 for a foot long chicken teriyaki with no drinks and snacks for last 4 times. I visited the store again today and ask for the same one he just charged me $5.58 and this time I asked for the receipt that i was never asking him before. I am a familiar face to him as i visit them regularly, the guy knows that i don’t take the combo still he was charging me $7.35 every time. I left my credit card printouts with him to follow on. This is a serious cheating to customers; i want a follow up on this.

Thanks
San Nayak

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Friday, February 27, 2009
Dear Mr. Nayak:

Thank you for taking the time to share your comments with us. Our customers
provide us with valuable input, which we use to improve our operations. As
part of that commitment, we know that we have to continuously seek
improvement and monitor our performance.

All restaurants are individually owned and operated. In order for our local
regional office to investigate this properly, we need to know the exact
location of the SUBWAYR restaurant that you have visited.  Can you please
reply by e-mail or by calling me at 1-800-888-4848 to provide me with a
complete address of the location you visited? Please refer to the Customer
ID listed below when replying.

I appreciate that you took the time and effort to contact us and am looking
forward to hearing from you at your earliest convenience.

Sincerely,

Peggy Mccarthy  x8201
Customer Care Representative

Customer ID: 1751713

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Hi Peggy,

Thanks for coming back on this issue.

Here is the address:
615 W. Lake St
Chicago, IL, 60661
Store: 312.258.8229

Peggy, I don’t know if I will be able to prove it or not as I have no prove that I have not taken drinks and chips. If you have cameras on stores then that can only prove my honesty but honestly i will write a review on the store on my blog www.sannayak.com on this issue. I know the owner has taken advantage on my simplicity and i hate it.

Thanks
San
Customer ID: 1751713

Theme of the story is never forget your duty even if you know or trust someone. Never forget to ask for a receipt when you buy something.

Web Design Blog Says: September 14th, 2009 at 8:56 am

Lesson: If you are using credit card to be charged for anywhere where credit card leaves your hands, always ask for receipt and file it somewhere and reconcile with your card statement when it comes (at which point you can discard the tiny receipts if the statement is correct).

Let me tell you that many people say I cook well so thought to share something which I cooked today. This is an Indian spicy curry prepared with ladyfinger and peas. This was prepared keeping in mind for only two people that are me and my roommate. Let’s jump into the instruction of how to make ladyfinger and peas curry.

Ingredients:

• ½ lb ladyfinger (220 g)
• 1/5 lb peas (80-100 g)
• 2 onions
• 1 tomato
• 3 small green pepper (3 chilies)
• 1 ½ tbsp ginger paste
• 1 tbsp garlic paste
• 1/3 tbsp salt
• vegetable oil
• curry powder

Start with chopping the onion and keep your cooking pan on the stove at the same time. By the time you think the pan is hot then add vegetable oil to heat for more 2-3 minutes. You might have chopped the onions in the meantime so add the chopped onions to frying pan once the oil is boiled. Start chopping the green peppers, add to the pan when you see the onions are getting red in color. In the meantime keep the chopped tomato ready to add. Once you see the onions are red then add tomatoes. Fry that for a while till it gets soft and mix with rest of the stuffs. Add ginger and garlic paste to the pan and fry till you see oil leaving the paste.

In the meantime fry ladyfingers with oil in a different stove and add peas later when you see the ladyfingers are halfway done. Remember peas need less time to get cooked so add them later.

Now add your fried ladyfinger and peas to the other pan. Add salt and little curry powder and keep frying for a while. After 2-3 minutes add little water and boil it for more 5-7 minutes with medium flame. This curry will take 30-40 minutes depending your speed and management. Your food is ready to serve with alu paratha or whole wheat tortilla.