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Just got a packet of fresh sweet corn from the store and wanted to cook up a new recipe with it! Was googling to find a sweet corn paratha recipe but all the recipes which I found, the sweet corn was ground and either mixed with the flour or used as a stu

My daughter?s school vacations started on Friday. This is the first time in 9 nine years, that I am at my mom?s house for vacation to stay for a month. All these years, mom was in the same town as me close to each other, so I used to visit her often. Neve

I've been trying out recipes from a new cookbook: Cake Days by The Hummingbird Bakery . Not particularly English, but tasty and damn good-looking nonetheless. I've been to their shop on Portobello Road a few times and it's usually stuffed to the bri

I know, I know- The Hummingbird Bakery again ? Well, you see, I have this terrible habit of getting stuck on certain cookbooks. I tab all of the recipes that I'd like to bake and then proceed to bake, using the sliding scale of my excitement to guide me.

This is my moms favorite recipe. When we were coming back from home she packed me some of the dried shrimp. They are precleaned, prepacked and ready to go. All i have to do is take them out of the fridge and cook them. Its ready....... Preparation tim

I am a kind of person who cannot generally eat the same dish again and again. I need change. But there are a couple of dishes that I would not mind eating repeatedly. One such dish is MENASKAI (thats what we say in Kannada) or in simple words a mango cu

Merry Christmas and a Happy New year to all of you!!!! I tried a Aayi's eggless fruit cake(Link is attached below) and i made few modifications to the recipe.The cake came out really soft and nice. All of you should try it.. Here is the Ingredients, 1

The Mediterranean Bay Laurel trees I planted a few years back as a screen between my house and the neighbors create an endless supply of bay leaves for many of my cooking projects. At one point I worried that a big freeze would wipe them out, like what h

Inspiration from 'Flour', a fun read for lovers of home baking, by Joanne Chang, the owner and pastry chef at Flour Bakery Cafe in Boston. It's been a few years since I made a lemon poppy seed cake and my stash of Meyer lemons was calling out to me,

Martha Stewart's cookie application for ipad, titled MS Cookies is one of my absolute favorites and inspires me each time I open it up and scroll through the parade of cookies marching across my screen. There are cookies for 'Hedonists', 'Traditionalists'

As I'm typing this blog right now, it's raining cats and dogs plus it's rather chilly outside. I had a sudden craving for a dessert. Maybe a cup of hot cocoa will do, but I feel that I have been chocolate overload for the past few weeks. So, this time

Lately, I have become a bit lazy about posting, because I have to study for my school exams right now. But in order to make it up, I look forward to sharing my delicious dessert with you that I had last Sunday. Filled rice dumplings are a very popular d

Tindora / Dondakaya Chutney is one of the most vital side dish of Andhra. There are so many varieties and variations ..Here is how I make ... Tindora/Dondakaya Ingredients:- Tindora/ Dondakaya - 2 cups Bengal gram /Chana dal -1 tbsp Spli

Michael Pollan's food rule # 17: Eat foods that have only been cooked by humans. Michael Pollan's book Food Rules is a great collection of simple rules for optimal health and weight maintenance. His rules

Yesterday, for lunch, I made a spicy and delicious stir fry which is simple, healthy and makes a yummy side with rice and sambhar. It?s a very malabari style of making avarakya upperi (also called amarakka/ amarakya in some parts of Kerala / widely know

I am on my way to "God?s own country" to attend a family function. As much as I?m excited to get there I dread the heat. Every time I go to Kerala, I must come back with a variety of dry fish. I had to finish the last lot before I buy the next.

A nything from legume family is nutritious and good for health. The white peas are commonly known as Vatane in Goa. Any types of legumes can be used to prepare tondak or curry with coconut. for most of these procedure is the same. The recipe mentione

Every time I visit Goa, I get dry fish from the local market. This comes handy when we feel like eating "hooman" i.e. Goan Fish Curry. At least if dry fish is there, this hooman can be cooked easily. In Goa hardly anyone prepares this as they get fresh fi

This photo pretty much sums up why I love Greek cuisine. This is a typical meal I had on the island of Lesvos (close to Turkey), at a family-owned taverna that is completely off the beaten path -- down a tiny dirt road lined with overgrown foliage and a c

It's official, I've booked a ticket to Rome and Sicily. Am ecstatic to get away, to leave things behind, shut my brain off, enjoy more of life for awhile...in other words, simply do nothing -- il dolce far niente -- literally, the sweetness of doing no

Ingredients: 1 big bangus cleaned but not scaled cut in about 4 to five slices 2 siling haba (finger chilies) 3 cloves of garlic pounded 1 bulb onion sliced a small piece of ginger washed, pounded or sliced

Ingredients: 1 kilo fresh talaba/ oysters 1/2 cup vinegar 1 teaspoon salt ground pepper 1 bulb onion, chopped 1 medium sized ginger, grated green unriped mango, grated red hot chili pepper, chopped Procedure:

Ingredients: 1 lb. pork, cut into serving pieces 1 tsp. salt 1/8 tsp. pepper 3 cloves garlic, minced 1 onion, sliced 1 tbsp. patis (fish sauce) 4 potatoes, peeled and quartered 1 cup water 1/2 cup tomato sauce 1/2

Ingredients: 1 pound fresh tahong ( mussels ), cleaned 1 medium sweet onion, sliced 3 cloves garlic, diced 1 thumb sized ginger, finely sliced 3 fresh tomatoes, chopped into chunks 1 tablespoons vegetable oil 2-3