Mehr in Winnipeg

  Now this creation is inspired by my Gurya phupho's cooking. We lived with her for a year in Pindi (Pakistan) and used to enjoy these open potato sandwiches with warm soup in cold winter nights. I have changed few things, as I felt like having something spicy and with a cold side salad. Now my biggest hero for this lunch delicious-ness is Gluten Free Udi Brand Brown bread. I made this lunch, especially to put it on the blog :) Ingredients for Open Sandwich: 2 medium boiled potatoes 2 slices of Udi Bread (GF Bread) 1 egg 2 slices of chedder cheese 3/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp  paprika 1/4 tsp black pepper 1/2 tsp cumin 1 green chile/Jalapeno 1 tbsp chopped cilantro(parsley) 1 tsp lemon juice First make the potato mixture, add all the spices and lemon juice and mix and mash it all up (this mixture is used to make potato cutlets as well.) Then slice cheese and put it on defrosted Udi bread and pile on half an inch of potato mixture and spread it on the toast. Then soa

         I loved celebrated days at home. We would eat traditional foods like Mutton Pilaaf, Aloo Ghosht (Potato and meat Curry), Chicken Karhai ( Chicken with spices and tomatoes), Korma (meat cooked in yogurt), Roghni naan (Bread baked with butter), Haleem (Meat cooked with lentils, and oats in delicious spice).            Living in a different country from Canada, as kids we were always fascinated by western style food like, steak, roasted chicken, and the sides  always looked so different and yummy. Our mum would make different cuisine just for us to give us that western food feel. I remember my first pizza in Pakistan, my mom used mozza cheese which she got from a speciality store. My brother and I were so excited and kept saying mum its like Ninja Turtle cheese (stringy)           One of my favourite dinners inspired by roasted styled dinners was the leg of mutton/mutton chops with fried potatoes and peas. with a Russian salad which I cooked for Nabeel recently :) and it was a h