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Trying to decide what dish to cook for this month's London Cooking Club event "Comfort Eating Special", was hardly a difficult task - it just had to be a Japanese Nabe . Few dishes evoke such wonderful foodie memories of my childhood as a Na

I have very few food-related memories of my Dad growing up. Mom was a wiz in the kitchen. Dad, not so much! There were the adventures in clam digging, when he would take me, my sister, and all of our cousins out fishing and clamming for the day. There

Ingredients:- Red gram dal/Tur Dal / Kandi Pappu-1 cup(wash and pressure cook and mash it to smooth) Dried Mangoes-4 to 5 nos (wash and boiled) Red chillies-3 to 4 nos de-seed and tear Garlic Cloves-5 nos (cut into pieces) Mustard Seeds-1 tsp Cumi

Reel versus Real We all are familiar with the famous Hide and seek advertisement where Hrithik endorses the product. But unfortunately the quality of the product has not been so stabl

I had chicken adana for the first time a few weeks ago at a Turkish restaurant and asked the waiter about the ingredients. It's a habit and hobby of mine to start conversations with waiters especially when I'm at a foreign restaurant. I like to ask them

Wishing all who celebrate a very Happy Krishna Janmashtami . Lots of things come to mind when I think of Ashtami during childhood.It was always a double celebration since we lived a wall apart a Krishna temple and it was almost like a second ho

Arisiparuppu sadham was introduced to me by my friend Priya. She is basically from Coimbatore. In Tirunelveli, Thuvaramparuppu sadham ( Toor Dal Rice ) is famous. The main ingredients of both of the rices are same. Those are toor dal and rice. But the re

Meat-Free, Egg-Free, Dairy-Free Authentic Island Cuisine for Every Occasion.. Caribbean Vegan is written by Taymer Mason and published by The Experiment Publishing . This book has a lot of great looking recipes, a perfect addition to your vegan cookboo

?Masala or Perattal is a spicy dry Chettinad specialty, with onions, spices and ground masala. This side dish is great with Rasam , Curd Rice, etc. Vazhakkai Perattal has its place at wedding feasts too! Chettinad Cuisine is indeed unique, being spi

These cookies are just like the Danish butter cookies that we can buy. Soft and they really melt in your mouth. Very easy to make if you have the right ingredients in your hand. I made the spotted cow cookies with the same recipe. Do refer to that rec

Ingredients: Rice Flour - 3cups Maida - 2 cups Green Chillis - 12 Chana Dal - 1/4 cup Chilli powder - 1tsp Ajwain seeds/Vamu - 2tsp Butter - 1/4 cup Oil for deep frying Oil - 5tsp for making Chekkalu Curry leaves - few Salt - 2 1/2 tsps Procedure: So

Mooncake season is here and I've always like those little golden pillows of lotus paste and pandan paste and red bean paste. Until a few years ago you could only find two or three traditional types of mooncakes but now you can find all sorts of new Snow S

Daring Bakers May 2009 - Apple Strudel The May Daring Bakers? challenge was hosted by Linda of make life sweeter! and Courtney of Coco Cooks. They chose Apple Strudel from the recipe book Kaffeehaus: Exquisite Desserts from the Classic Cafés of Vienna,

made with Pomfret fish and cooked in a tangy coconut gravy. Generally Mackerel fish is used in this recipe, but Pomfret is the best substitute . Mangalorean cui sines are well known for their distinct flavor. In general, Mangalorea

Chikki is a simple Indian sweet which is made with jaggery(sometimes sugar) and nuts. You might have heard of the peanut chikki or the sesame chikki or the cashew chikki. Now I have come with this almond chikki or the almond jaggery balls. You might be w

Escabeche which refers to poached or fried fish covered with a spicy marinade is another dish brought to the Philippines by the Spaniards . Filipino-Style Fish Escabeche a.k.a. Fish in Sweet and Sour Sauce is made by frying a whole meaty kind of f

This is an excellent side dish best served along with rice dal and rasam if you do not like kohlrabi you can use brinjal or potato using the same masala paste even meats like chicken and mutton can be added...:) Recipe Video... Ingredien

Peanut is main ingredient in Maharashtrian food. The most common way to use peanut is in coarse powder which is called 'Danyacha kut' in Marathi. It is used in Koshimbirs , stuffed curry and mainly for fasting food like sabudana khichadi , danyachi a

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It's Valentines Day! The day of love and couples rekindling their passion for each other. These days, so many of us are watching our weight, and if we have eaten a heavy romantic dinner, we may be looking for something lighter and more refreshing to swee

The name's quite a handful isn't it? Its just that I can not seem to name this creation any other way. When I look for cupcake recipes on the net or in my books it always seems that the ingredients are almost always too "westernized" (not much of a surp

I have some leftover Pulut Hitam (recipe from previous post) and what comes to mind? Ice cream! Yup, this is our very own traditional ice cream which is truly one of a kind. This fabulous ice cream can hardly be found in it's original packing anymore. T

My wonderful husband got me this ravioli press and I am having so much fun with it. I can literally make 72 (enough to feed 6 hungry people) homemade from scratch ravioli in less than an hour!I have a pictorial tutorial below to show just how easy it is.

While Manila has become oversaturated with Italian restaurants, it has also become disamarmingly apparent that most of these are of the second-rate, trying-hard, copycat kind. With the exception of Italianni's with the checkered, laminated tablecloths tha