At dentist office, the doctor informed me that she would have to extract a broken tooth out of my younger son’s mouth . The rest of the broken half was sitting in a big cavity that needed to be removed.…
Kauraishootir Ghoogni
Category: Vegetarian
Lobiya
I am about to kick off a trip to India, my ‘native’ place, as we call it in India. I am going there primarily to be by my Mom who is having a surgery, but make no mistake, I have…
Pistachio cookies – eggless
Happy Thanksgiving to all of you! To celebrate Thanksgiving, I decided to make some different sort of cookies, that would blend the old world American dessert with old world Indian flavors.
Luchi (Puri) – Fried Indian Flatbread
I had quite a few requests to post my recipe of Luchi – the fried Indian flatbread. At the outset, let me tell you that it’s not healthy. It’s deep fried. It’s sinful. It’s amazing. It’s awesome. It’s addictive. It’s…
Happy Halloween and Hazelnut Chocolate Nutella Bon Bons
“Sandy’ badgered us for 14 hours straight. However, the actual wind gusts and incessant rains didn’t really bother us as much as I had thought it would. It was like any other normal storm, only that it lasted for…
Papaya & Chocolate chips Pancakes
As we hunker down for ‘Sandy’ here in the East Coast, much of our time is being spent arranging for supplies for the hurricane/storm that seems to be marching on towards us with an unprecedented severity. I ran to the grocery…
Kiwi Ice-cream – no eggs or cream and no machine; Power Food blogging
I am a Vanilla girl. There was a time when I had a complex because I just could not get myself to like any other flavor. While others around me went from end to end in ice cream experimentation,…
Mysore Pak
Divya Pramil from Youtoocancookindianfood.blogspot.com posted a very interesting challenge. She divided the Indian subcontinent into two geographical teams – North Indian, and South Indian – in a cook off where members of each team will recreate a dish that…
Zesty Fries–Baked and Homemade from scratch
Who doesn’t love fries? I am yet to meet someone who steps forward and says, ‘anything but fries’. All that crunchy goodness and chewy texture makes you an addict. And the taste. The TASTE!! Yumm. You don’t believe me? Well,…
White Chocolate and apricot no bake pie
“What do you want to do for your 13th birthday?’ I ask my rapidly growing Pokeypants who is not really a kid anymore. ‘Nothing really Mom,” he replies. ” I just want to have a relaxing day’. ‘Any special…
Butternut Squash Sabzi – power food blogging
Recently, I met a very interesting group of bloggers who are powering their way through a series of power foods every week, based on Power Foods: 150 Recipes with the 38 Healthiest Ingredients, (from the editors at Martha Stewart’s Living Magazine).…
Spiced dry potatoes!
Once when I was around 11 years old, my Mom went into an emergency hospital situation, and I stayed with a kindly neighbor’s family. They were very sweet, simple, north Indian vegetarian people. Unfortunately, the ungrateful pre-teen that…
Green Cashew Rice & Grilled Tilapia with Balsamic dressing
Another weekend in which we saw a few bad movies, debated politics, scrubbed and cleaned, cracked jokes, lectured the boys on good housekeeping, signed them up for Boy Scouts and generally had a good time.
Capsicum Pepper Stew – spices and herbs
When I started blogging 4 months back, Carol was the very first blogger who became my subscriber. She was also the first one to nominate me for an award; I learned a lot about food, photography and in general a…
A dislocated ride and Homemade fries
Twenty minutes into the Water Park, my husband dislocated his shoulder. Rewind. Charlie’s swim lesson adventures from her blog Hotly Spiced made me revisit an incident that happened when my younger son was about 3 years old. He…