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Great Tastes - Mutton Rogan Josh

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  Recipe from Ruby's Kitchen ( as prepared in Kashmir ) Ingredients Mutton----1/2kg Hing (Asafetida) – 1/4 teaspoon Cinnamon (darchini)- 2 pieces (1” each) Clove (labanga) - 5 pieces Black cardamom (boro elaich) - 3 pieces Whole black pepper  1/2 teaspoon Juice of one whole large onion coriander powder - 1 teaspoon Cumin powder - 1 teaspoon Ratan Jote  - 1 teaspoon Kashmiri Mirch powder – 2/3 Tsp Hung Curd   250gm Fennel  powder - 1teaspoon Ginger powder - 2 teaspoon Vegetable oil – 1 tablespoon Boil 500 gm mutton in roughly 500ml water until soft and keep the stock and the mutton aside. Put a large pan on the gas and add oil. When the oil is hot (but not smoking), add the whole garam masala and black pepper. When the spices start popping, add the meat and slowly add the onion juice. Stir fry on low heat. When meat becomes almost dry and the onion juice has been completely absorbed, add hung curd, coriander powder, cumin powder, fennel powder, asaf...

Bridge on the River Kwai - Revisited

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River Kwai I first saw Bridge on the River Kwai when I was just a   school boy in Lucknow.I remember seeing the Academy Award winning movie at  Mayfair theater on Hazratgunj . The film was superb in all respect. Legendary   Director David Lean with great casts like Al ec Guinness, William Holden,  Jack Hawkins – shot in entirety in Sri Lanka; superb real life photography and based  on a true story on construction of a Bridge by POWs(prisoners of war) of the Allied force, held in  cramped swampy rain forest camps set up by the Japanese army during World War  II. The bridge was the most infamous section of about 250 miles Siam railroad  track from Bang Pong in Thailand to Thanbyuzayat in Burma, and was built to  support the Japanese Imperial Army’s forces in Burma (now Myanmar). The film  shows the travails of POWs engaged in construction of the Bridge in 1942– 43.There were many deaths in these camps during construction pe...