Demonic Cookery - Episode 5

I've been going a little over board with the butter and cheese in a week prior to this so I said its about time I cut down and make a few meals which are lo on the fat content. So with that I created this next menu.

Lemon Pepper Mushrooms

Ingredients
Mushrooms (with stems removed)
Salt
1 Tblspn Olive Oil
Garlic Chopped Fine
Lemon Pepper Seasoning (you can try using lemon and pepper it should work :P)
A bit of VODKA or cooking wine even will do.

Preparation
1. Heat the oil in the pan.
2. Put the mushrooms in and add the salt and lemon pepper.
3. The water from the mushrooms will be brought out by the salt and seasoning.
4. Once its drying up add the garlic.
5. Turn the flame to high.
6. Add the vodka and tilt the pan so it catches fire and flambes.

Thats all there is to the mushrooms.

LP Mushrooms in the pan.

Served

Baked Potatoes with Yogurt Dressing


Ingredients
Boiled Potatoes cut in halves
Olive Oil
Oregano
Salt
Pepper
For the Dressing
Curd
Spring Onions
Garlic
Salt
Pepper

Preparation
1. Hang the curd till its nice and solid
2. Mix in a bowl with salt, pepper, garlic and spring onions and leave in the fridge to cool.
3. Mix the olive oil, salt, pepper and oregano in a bowl
4. Brush it onto the potatoes and bake them till nice and golden.
5. Serve with the dressing on it.

The potatoes

The dressing

The Smoked Chicken Sandwich


Ingredients
Smoked Chicken Shredded (too lazy to make it :P)
Tomatoes
Spring Onions
Garlic
1 Tblspn olive oil


Preparation
1. Toss it all in a frying pan.
2. Put it between 2 slices of bread and your good to go :P

The mixture

The Plate

The Plate Again

Demonic Cookery - Episode 4

A lazy Sunday afternoon is always a good time to cook and so I figured I'd make my newest creation. A Demonic Version (well everything i cook is demonic) of Honey Mustard Chicken with Mashies and Garlic Toast.

The Honey Mustard Chicken

Ingredients
Chicken Breats
Olive Oil
Salt & Pepper
Little Butter
Honey Mustard Salad Dressing or Honey and Mustard
Cream Cheese (I used peppy cilantro flavored)
Milk
Maggie Chicken Cube or Chicken Stock
Spring Onion (used onion this time)
Garlic

Preparation
1. Marinate the chicken in salt and pepper, olive oil and a bit of the honey mustard
2. Heat some Olive oil and butter in a pan. Add the garlic and then the chicken and fry till golden brown. While this is cooking you can add the spring onion.
3. Remove chicken from the pan, add in some milk, the cream cheese (about a spoon is enough). The chicken cube and stir it till its as thick as you want it. Also taste it to see if it needs salt or anything else and you can probably add cornflour if you want to really thicken it up.
4. Once the sauce is done pour it over the chicken.

And once thats done you can serve on a plate with mashed potatoes and garlic toast and garnish with coriander or parsley and enjoy it :)

The begining

Mashies going into the micro for making

The sauce

The basic layout

Its finally done

Different views

Wallah ah!!

Demonic Cookery - Episode 3

So over the weekend I prepared a 'demonic' dinner for 4. Pretty easy and fun stuff to make and eat as well. So I'll break it down :)

Menu:
Maple Glazed Carrots
Mushroom Ragout on Garlic Toast
Mashy Capsicum Delight
Cheesy Demonic Chicken

Special Mention: Chocolate Mousse made by Anushka, Fine Vodka & Absinthe by Deepti and dinner music (drums) by Kanika.



Maple Glazed Carrots

Ingredients:
1.Carrots
2. Maple Syrup
3. Olive Oil
3. Salt & Pepper
4. Nutmeg
5. Cinnamon

Preparation:
1. Cut, clean and steam the carrots till relatively tender.
2. Heat the oil and maple syrup in a pan, say it u put similar quantities of oil adn syrup.
3. Throw in the carrots and saute them
4. Remove and season with salt, pepper, nutmeg and cinnamon and then serve.

:)



Mushroom Ragout on garlic toast

Ingredients:
1. Normal Mushrooms, about 2 packets sliced up
2. Butter about 2 table spoons
3. chopped garlic about 2 cloves
4. salt and pepper
5. Thick cream
6. 1/2 cup chicken or vegetable stock
7. You can use a herb of your choice, I used Italian Seasoning mix.
8. Readymade garlic toast or just rub a clove of garlic over a toast directly from the toaster

Preparation:
1. Heat the butter in a pan till hot and frothy
2. Put in the mushrooms, salt and pepper.
3. Keep cooking it for a while, the salt and pepper will get the water out of the mushrooms and you will need to cook it for almost 10 min or more till the water dries out and the mushrooms start to brown.
4. Once its all dried add the garlic and cook for a minute or so.
5. Add the broth/stock and stir in, then add the cream too it and also your herbs
6. Stir it around till it thickens a bit
7. Remove, pour over the toast and serve. I'm sure if you have some Parmesan cheese you can grate or sprinkle it over.


Mashy Capsicum Delight

Ingredients:
1. Capsicums
2. Potatoes
3. Cheese
4. Butter
5. Milks
6. Garlic Salt
7. Pepper

Preparation:
1. Boil the potatoes, cut them in half, scoop out the middle and put it in a bowl. I don't know why but i think its better to do it this way rather than removing the skin and using as is. Don't ask why :P
2. Cut the top of the capsicum and remove all the insides.
3. Mash the potatoes along with the cheese, butter, milk, salt, pepper, garlic and whatever else you'd like in it, be creative :P
4. Put the mashed potatoes in the capsicum and put a bit of grated cheese on top
5. Bake in the oven till brown and serve.


Cheesy Demonic Chicken

Ingredients:
1. Boneless Chicken Breasts
2. Spring Onions
3. Garlic.
4. Milk
5. Wine
6. Salt & Pepper
7. Cream (you can use low fat)
8. CHESEEEEEEEEEEEEE, you can use all kinds.

Preparation:
1. Cut up the chicken breasts, marinate it with salt, pepper, wine and milk.
2. Heat oil in the pan, put in the garlic till it starts to brown after which you put in the chicken till it gets nice and brow.
3. Pour in the cream and grate a truckload of cheese on it and stir it around till you get a nice gravy texture.
4. Serve it!!!


Phew!!! That pretty much takes care of the entire meal, you can serve a nice soft garlic bread with this meal.

Anyway till the next cooking session, BON APPTITE!!

The Mashy Capsicum Delight

Cheesy Demonic Chicken

The Plate

Special plate for Kanika which had no capsicum and cheese potatoes instead.

More plates!!!!

Laid out on the table!!!

Demonic Cookery - Episode 2

Wokay, after a long time I write a note and instead of a random rant I thought a another recipe would do some good to peoples tummy's if nothing else :P

Now this recipe was derived from the Italian dish 'Chicken Piccatta'. Anyway this was my take on the dish.

Ingredients:
Some chicken breats (back off pervs)
All purpose Flour
Herbs of choice (oregano, chilli flakes, paprika etc)
Butter
Lemon Juice
Water/Chicken Broth
Salt
Pepper
Olive Oil


Preparation:

1. Take em chicken tits :P and beat em nice and flat.
2. Mix the flour, herbs, salt and pepper in a dish.
3. Heat the oil and butter (say 2 tbsp oil and 3 butter)
4. Coat the chicken with flour and cook it in the pan till golden brown which would be about 3min each side.
5. Remove in a separate dish and keep.
6. In the stuff thats left in the pan add the chicken broth and lime juice and stir for a bit.
7. Add the chicken in it cook for a bit more and remove.
8. Garnish with lime slices and spring onion if you like.

And thats pretty much all there is too it :)

Somewhere in the making

Almost Done

Just before serving.

The final product

Demonic Cookery - Episode 1

I'm a decent chef. Some might agree, some might not. Either way I cooked a meal this evening and I would have to say its one of my best yet.

So ladies and gentleman I present to you the recipe for

'Demonic Pepper Bacon Chicken'

Ingredients:

Some chicken(but obvious)
Bacon (strip off the fat if u like it not)
Pepperoni (optional)
Mushrooms
Spring Onions
Red Peppers
Yellow Peppers
Pamesean Cheese
Blue Cheese Dressing
Olive Oil
Garlic Salt (or get proper garlic and salt)
Italian Herbs
Milk



Take the chicken, mix it with some milks, pameasean cheese, blue cheese dressing. You can add pepper to taste.

Chop the bacon and pepperoni, the onions and mushrooms, the peppers.

Throw the bacon, pepperoni, onions, mushroom,s garlic salt, Italian herbs and peppers into a pan and cook till the bacon is crisp and the onions are brown but not burnt.

In a separate pan put the olive oil and fry the chicken till golden brownish and then throw in the above mixture, and mix it all some more let the flavours mix with each other and then serve yourself and pig out like a dog or pig or animal of your choice.


So there you have it.
:)

Demonic Pepper Bacon Chicken

The Launchpad Chronicles - The House Of Rock!!! \m/

Originally written onSunday, February 8, 2009 at 12:34am

When Channel V announced that Launchpad was back for a IIIrd season there was much talk and buzz on the forums and among musicians. When they announced that the format was different and it would include 7 bands locked in a house the rumors and speculation started and everyone was thinking 'what the fuck is going on' - 'whats this nonsense' and so on and so forth. I think everyone feared the worst, that the show was now going to be big brother part 2 and the music would take a back seat. When the rules and regulations came out and the much talked about contract and t & c of the show, the word was out that channel V was going to screw the bands over.

All that was so wrong!!! Launchpad III was a once in a lifetime experience. I can safely say that even though at the end of the day it is a TV show and TRPs etc are important there were always people who made sure that the show did not lose focus from the most important thing in it...... the MUSIC!!!

Well anyway when I 1st read about it I knew that Workshop in a house would be complete madness and there were some others that shared the thought. After much debate, checking, calling and figuring out that our music won't be stolen by channel V and used we sent in our entries and made it to the top 20 bands from god knows how many. This year channel V decided to allow bands singing in any language to take part which really didn't make any drastic difference. So after making a trip to the office and reading the contract which had a cool clause saying if we die we can't hold channel V responsible and after checking that Raj could drop out from Workshop after round 1 if we got through we signed the dotted line.

So the journey starts with Riju packing his bag 4 days in advance and leaving it at my place till we made it to the house. The 1st audition was at Andheri sports complex between 20 bands that were selected. Each band would get 1 song to perform. Also we were called there at 7am and were told that if we reached at 7:05 we would get disqualified which we later discovered was an evil ploy to make sure we were on time. Anyway we did shit loads of shooting and stuff and were told Vishal won't judge us that day and lo and be hold 10 minutes later Vishal walks past all of us.

Now I must make it a point to mention this as I know a lot of metal heads don't quite like Vishal for whatever reason but I honestly think the man deserves a hand/break/kit-kat/applaus

e or whatever form of respect you give to deserving people. I'll explain and I swear I'm not sucking up or anything cause I really don't give a fuck enough to, I call the shots as I see them. When he came to the venue he made it a point to come and speak to every single band and have a chat with them which I think was really cool. After that when we went for our auditions we saw the most sidey crowd ever as it was some paid crowd that had come from like some ganpati parade to vote for the bands to which Vishal kicked all the producers butts and made sure that the 'b-grade' crowd was removed as the bands deserved better than that. Lets just say finally it was Vishal who sat and judged all the bands. He could have easily just said fuck it play the shoot will end earlier but he made sure we got a fair deal and he also bothered to check that the bands were fed and taken care off. I'll also make it a point to mention that he is one of the fairest judges and most accurate. I had said this after Launchpad 1 where he judged DR and he was spot on about our flaws and he was equally accurate this time, in fact I'll go as far to say that most of the so called celebs who come to judge college festivals are rarely ever this fair and accurate in making judgment and have much more attitude.

Special Edit: Also must compliment our 2nd judge bobby and from henceforth, 'Brunch with Bobby' will be the new 'Koffee with Karan' .... very interesting sessions where Bobby briefed us on our tasks and also Bobby was the man of the hour and his hindi is very good. His judging was also very fair and unbiased. It was good to have him on the panel.

Since I'm at it might as well mention Shaa'ir and Func (Monica & Randolf) and Raghu Dixit who judged us and all I can say is all these people are really tuned into whats going on and they really are a great bunch of musicians and it was really great that they agreed to be part of this show and they really did a good job judging the bands. A big thanks to all of the judges then!!! Also extra thanks to Randolf for the cool drawing he did for Workshop! :P I'll upload that sometime.

Anyway moving on. We were also told from the 20 bands 15 would move on to round 2 and Workshop made it through. We played the song 'I came' and got a great response and it was also the tightest we've ever been on stage. So the next day was round 2 which was in the Channel V studio where Vishal, Bobby and Anirban were judging the bands and we played She Folked Up My Jazz without Raj as he dropped out due to IIT pressure. So when we played the judges had their most grim faces and grilled us after which they burst out into smiles telling us they loved what we played and that we'd been had. So all said and done there was a judgment where bands at 5 at a time went on to find their fate and finally after scaring us again we were told we made it into the 7 bands that would move into the house.

Also have to mention chilling out with all the 20 bands was good fun, special mention t Anus The Menace, Fire Exit and whoever else we met and hung out with. Good times!!

Anyway So two days later we moved into 'The House Of Rock' which was this amazing place and Channel V had done it up really well. It was Prachir & Cassinis Divison from Kolkata, Faridkot, Blank Noize & The Circus from Delhi and Reverse Polarity and Workshop from Mumbai. Going into the house I thought that the only band we'd beat for sure would be Reverse Polarity and my god how wrong I was because they up'd their game and have kicked everyones ass so far!!! Anyway living with so many bands was an amazing experience. I cannot stress enough on how great it was to meet all these musicians and just the whole experience was so awesome. We had brunch with Bobby and Eliminations and did some shitty tasks like making a song in 10minutes after being given a word and even doing a cover our own way. I thought about going into detail but for now I'll keep it short so that there is stuff to watch when the show is out. But basically there was no big brother style crap, they just filmed us doing what we do, playing the fool, playing guitars etc etc. We all did a shoot with Rolling Stone, we played at Blue fucking Frog!!! and Reverse Polarity even jumped naked into the swimming pool.

A little bit about the bands we shared a house with.
Parchir - A great band, very quiet guys and I can honestly say the guys with the most heart and courage in the house, they really worked their asses off. Their bassist left them just before they entered the house and they still kicked ass. Very nice guys, I wish them the best.

Blank Noize - My main man Nikhils band and man they were very cool, it was great hanging out with them. They've already got two albums out and are good musicians, I loved their version of Glassi but sadly it wasn't good enough to keep them there. Hats off boys it was great sharing the stage. You Homos :P (this is an inside joke :P)

Cassinis Divison - Another quiet bunch from Kolkata till you get to know them better then they are life and death of the party. Great band and Rahul is just INSANE!!! The man and an acoustic guitar will have u mesmerized for days on end. He was the life and death of the party and I think they just floored all the bands with their songs. A great bunch of people if I do say so myself.

Faridkot - Serial molesters Raj and Gavin!! :P hahahhaa but man another great bunch of guys, Gavin is seriously funny!!! A great bunch of musicians, Tarun from Berkelee School of music and Raj who I think is like Warren Jr. and IP who is a great singer. Not to forget Raheja Sahab the electronica wiz who also was part of Frequency and in launchpad 2.And last but not least Gavin the great!! :p

Reverse Polarity - The underdogs in the contest and man oh man have they proved their worth!!! They just ripped each time they performed. Looks like Brother might also win the show like his sister won the Viva band thingy!! Runs in the Manchanda family I guess (:P). Great job boys!!! I never expected this and that makes it all the more special. Much deserved.

The Circus - I saw them at Blitzkrieg in Delhi and they were pretty decent but now they have improved and their bassist fucking rips!!!! The whole band is great and I really love their music, they are awesome fun to hang out with and chill with, great bunch of people!!

Workshop - Often called The Workshop for some strange reason, we had fun in the house and we loved being a part of this show and hanging out with all the bands. But finally we did get eliminated inspite of improving our performance each time (except the 1 make a song in 10minutes one) but I guess its more than just that. I guess its just depends on just that small slip up like song selection or even making 1 or 2 mistakes because all the bands are so tight and so good that it makes judging really hard.


Anyway it does suck to be eliminated but I guess we made a bad song choice and thats all it comes down to. Its going to be a great contest. The channel V crew has worked extremely hard and a big thank you to all of them: Sunder, Vivek, Romit, Suyash, Pranoy, Varun, all the camera men and sound guys. Workshop infected them all and by the end of it the camera people were dropping their camera's and laughing because we fucking cracked everyone up. Anyway there is tons of good footage and I really hope channel V makes some left over launchpad outtakes and puts them up on youtube.

I am really glad that we took part and next year I hope to join Vishal and Bobby on the launchpad Jury
:)

Also a special thanks to my girlfriend Deepti for always being there :) and also Husain for coming for the gig at Blue Frog and supporting us and also to the future Murga Ashwin who showed up as well.

So guys don't miss the show when it airs. I'll try and get Hamza and Riju to write out some of the funnies that might not find its way onto the show
:P

I'm sure I missed out a lot of things and a lot of people but I'll write more soon.

Cheers!!!
The Demonstealer

Welcome To The Demonic Blog!!!

Welcome to my Demonic World. This is where I'm going to start posting all my stuff at from tour diarys of Demonic Resurrection to my random ramblings to my cooking recipes etc etc.

For now I've just put in all my random ramblings into the blog and I will soon follow with my cooking ones and then take it from there.

So thanks for stopping by and keep checking into my demonic world.

Cheers & Stay Demonic
The Demonstealer