Top Ten Tuesdays over at The Broke and Bookish is top summer reads. Many are part of a long pending TBR here:

And for Teaser Tuesdays, here is a teaser from Cassie and the Woolf by Olivia Snowe (digital ARC from NetGalley – to be published Aug 2013)

‘So the old man shrugged, and when he did his mouth twisted a little. Lightning cracked behind him, casting flickering, harsh shadows across his bent face. To Cassie, he was a monster. A troll. A hungry demon.’

Alu (Potato) Parathas
What you need: 
1 1/2 cup wheat flour
1 russet potato (boiled and peeled)
1/2 tsp red chili powder
1/2 tsp coriander powder
1/2 lime – juice from 1/2 a lime
Salt per taste – a little is more than enough for this
Flour for dusting
How to make:
I put them all together (except the flour for dusting!) in my faithful old food processor and had the dough ready in a couple of minutes. If needed, you can add a couple of spoons of water – but I did not need it.
Divide the dough into about 8 to 10 smooth rolls.
Now use your rolling pin to flatten to a circle
Place on heated tawa and flip it over to cook both sides – each side until golden-brown spots appear. You can also add a pat of ghee around the edges to enhance the flavor.
Serve with zucchini raita.

Zucchini Raita
What you need:
2 medium zucchini (shredded/julienned)
1/2 tsp mustard seeds
1/2 tsp urad dal
1 dry red chili (or to taste)
salt to taste
1 tsp oil
1 1/2 cup plain yoghurt
How to make:
Shred the zucchini and keep aside(I used my new 3-blade vegetable peeler for this and it worked out great)
Heat the oil. Add the mustard seeds, once it sputters, add the red chili and the urad dal.
When the dal turns golden brown, add the shredded zucchini and saute for a couple of minutes. Let it cool.
Beat the yoghurt well, add salt to taste and add the prepared zucchini. Ready to serve with your parathas now.

Now here is my review of the Rotito Rolling Board Set (Red). 
The Rotito fulfilled a need I did not know I had.

It looks great on my kitchen counter – adds a splash of color. The board itself is sturdy and provides me additional height over the counter-top. This made me realize that I was bending over a bit earlier – pre-Rotito – to roll out rotis – and would sometimes end up with sore shoulders, achy back, and more. Now, the additional height provides loads of relief – thus the need I did not know I had! The steel container for flour is a great addition – I do not now need to go hunting for a plate or bowl to put flour in for dusting each time – it is already there!

The dough does not stick to the board, even if – as my little one did in her excitement – one manages to roll it too hard and too much. That is definitely a plus point. It is easy to clean as well. One other use for the flour container I found – for misshapen rotis (both by me and my little one) – I used the lid to get a perfect circle! You can see that in the collage up there.  

Gitadini offered me three different rolling pins to try out and compare with the Rotito set and I liked them all for different reasons but my favorite one has to be the widest rolling pin. The two thinner ones are tapered pins and seem to help in rolling it thinner and more evenly while the widest one which is not tapered but has handles helps to flatten the dough efficiently as I begin making the chapattis. I am noticing that I use the widest one lot more.  My little girl loved the middle one – she felt it was just right – like Goldilocks :). 

And now for the giveaway: Gitadini has generously offered one
Rotito set to giveaway to one of my readers (in the US only, currently).  So please go ahead and enter the Rafflecopter below for your chance to win.

 
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