Photo by the super-fabulous Madhu Subbaraman Before anyone gets excited, this has nothing to do with the whisky! But, this is where it all began. The road to “non-vegetarian-sindom”. We’ve known them only as teacher’s family. Two sisters who were teachers, and over the years, taught my mother, my sister, me, and several...
I must be missing my mother because this is yet another recipe from her kitchen. Diverse though people may be, they seem to unite in their dislike of bitter...
This is one more of those from my mom’s kitchen. A recipe she picked up somewhere on our travels and made it her own. In the original version, the...
It takes 1 fish and about 3 pounds of salt to make this dish. Only, the salt is on the outside, baking into a crust, sealing in all the...
You’ve seen them many times. Delicious golden pastry puffs, crunchy on the outside, and surprisingly light. Usually filled with cream or custard and finished with a generous drizzle of...
Ingredients 2 sweet potatoes 1-2 tbsp extra virgin olive oil 2 sprigs fresh thyme or 1 tsp dried thyme Salt & Pepper ¼ cup halved pecans 2 tbsp honey...
It has been a few days since Thanksgiving and it has taken me this long to recover from the food sins of the week past! We drove down to...
First off, I have to say that this is a work in progress. As with a lot of things, it began with a mistake. Trying to feed a paneer...
Winter is on its way and it is the season for hot soups and hearty stews. This soup is one of my favorites. Cauliflower has this way of taking...
This is my take on Jaques Pepin’s version of a French classic, adapted from his book on Complete Techniques. I made a few tweaks, the most obvious being the...
This is an adaptation of a traditional recipe from Maharashtra, West India. More specifically, from the pathare-prabhu style of cooking. Pathare-prabhu is the name of a community in Maharashtra,...
We had a fun weekend which was a part Diwali, part birthday (a friend’s) celebration. When thinking over what I should cook for the dinner party, I automatically turned...
Don’t be put off by the long description of how to do this – it is simpler than it seems. And the end result is absolutely worth the effort,...
We know it by many names – eggplant, brinjal, aubergine, guinea squach, melongene – but it’s fascinating how so many cultures the world over use it. Of course, the...
It was our neighbor and friend Ankur’s birthday, and his wife Aparna, decided to throw a dinner party for him. She asked me if I wanted to help with...
There is nothing exotic about this recipe. And definitely nothing fussy. It just makes a pretty nice lunch. I had some leftover grilled chicken, so this salad was ready...
I was talking to my friend Z this morning, and she said she wanted something simple to make – not too much effort in chopping and prepping, and yummy....
Since I enjoy Moroccan food so much, this recipe from Whole Foods immediately appealed to me. Making your own preserved lemons at home! And it’s really awfully simple. Lemons,...
This is a really simple salad to toss together. The flavor comes entirely from the cheese – Bellavitano Raspberry Cheese. We picked it up on a whim at Whole...