Find mouthwatering delectable recipes from all over the world. These recipes are my own interpretations which have a very high taste quotient without compromising the health ingredient.
You know how some things that we use, or eat, can often be used as a connotation to mean something else? ‘Honey’ is the sweetheart, ‘Sugar’ is the soul mate. Muffin is the little kid. ‘Choux’ or cabbage in French…
Recently, I was writing a long, detailed, rubble rousing email to our broker in California who was entrusted with the responsibility of selling our house back there and was making a mess of it. We were frustrated, and wanted something…
“She is not going to bowl, is she?’ the friendly looking lady asked my friend, pointing her chin at me. She wasn’t being rude, because she was laughing at the same time, her eyes twinkling. Now, one could not really…
I have no salt at home. I have been planning to buy some for a while, but somehow it is escaping me. How do I run out of salt you ask? Well, to stretch a short story long, I keep…
I have been wanting to post this for a week now, but life keeps getting in the way. Not in a bad way though, just a busy way. We had a marathon Memorial Day BBQ – making sure our summer…
I abhor lizards. They give me creeps. I am not afraid of them. Just find them yucky enough that I can pick one and throw it into space and not feel guilty about it. When I was growing up, there…
In my late teens and early twenties, I struggled with my weight. Or rather, the lack of it. Unlike popular perception, those who are underweight can also be a target of humour. Especially if you are in India. Not…
The men today treated me to a fantastic lunch at one of Boston’s hole in the wall places that serves authentic Vietnamese food (that’s what their Menu says) that includes a to-die-for fire-pot. We have been there quite a…
“Wait wait, don’t start on the curry yet,” Mr L8H’s voice crackled over into my ears through bad cell phone reception. I paused at the process of washing the recently defrosted cornish hens in my basin. I planned to finish…
It’s spring!! The colors are finally showing up. While the past two days have been the kind that visit New England every time the flowers are in full bloom, with overcast skies blanketing a downpour that further chills an…
Few posts ago, I wrote about how to make ‘roti/chappati’ at home. I posted a picture of dal tadka there with a promise to come back with the recipe. Thing have been on the crazier side since. Not that…
Most of you who have been following my blog know that I don’t dig peanut butter. So when a friend approached me to review a jar of peanut butter, I was obviously a bit hesitant. Good thing is my older…
I remember hosting my first ever dinner party. I cooked for about 20 people. The food was sufficient for about about five at the most. It was the most embarrassing affair of my life. Back in the days when I…
The clouds of cold are finally lifting from the horizon, slowly, but surely. The residue is there, in form of ice on the ground that has now solidified into rocks, blanketing the green brown earth underneath. That Earth…
Ina Friday is back. First Friday of the month already, how time flies! This time, I wanted to try something I had never tried before. I settled for a very interesting dish that called for caviar. I…