Home Made Ginger Garlic Paste
- 06
- April
- 2013
There are tons of recipes in Indian cooking that calls for this particular combination of ingredients…the ‘Ginger & Garlic Paste’! Yet, none of the commercial brands has made them satisfactorily! If so, it comes with a heavy load of preservatives! I totally disagree with batch cooking and generally make only a teeny amount of GG […]
Home Made Chili Sauce – More than a Condiment
- 05
- April
- 2013
Also Known As: Home Made Hot Sauce. Home Made Sriracha Sauce. Hot Chili Sauce. Milagai Thokku. Milagai Saandhu. Hot sauce is one of the most favored condiment topped on fries, snacks, rice and what not! It adds that extra zest of culinary heat to the otherwise, basic appetizers and meat products. There are so many […]
Spiced Peanuts – Snowy Day Snacks!
- 04
- April
- 2013
Its snowing, sleeting, its flurry, hail storms, thunderstorms, hurricanes…I have seen enough. This year’s winter is kind of whacky though…it looks like a one long winter and then followed by another cold-dark winter!!! Come on, where is spring??? When the days are so blue, one way to brighten up life is to dish up something […]
Nopales Stir-Fry – Cooking with Cactus!
- 04
- April
- 2013
Also Known As Nopales Stir-fry. Cactus Stir-fry. Chappathi Kalli Poriyal. Chappathi kalli Varuval. For some unknown reason, all along…I misjudged that cactus is a harmful, dangerous and must be a poisonous plant! Back home in India, never witnessed anyone harvesting it for consumption! Let alone, nor did I see the herbivorous munching it away!! Whenever, […]
Indian Cooking Techniques – Simplified
- 03
- April
- 2013
Preparing food with heat or fire is an activity very unique to humans. Most anthropologists believe cooking fire was first developed around 250,000 years ago. Hence forth the development of agriculture, trade, commerce and transportation! With this single new invention ‘pottery’, the cooking has expanded. Zoologist Richard Wrangham believes that cooking has made us human […]
Zucchini Stir-Fry
- 03
- April
- 2013
There are days…when I want to finish up cooking damn too-quick and wind up in front of the TV! I rush-up for everything…procure, process, cook and clean. And I brag about how gifted I am spinning the spatula n fixing a meal in no time. The actual secret lies in the cooking techniques that I […]
Chocolate Milk – A Reason To Live Drink!
- 02
- April
- 2013
I love chocolates. And its quite obvious to everyone who knew me! Of lately, I want my cocoa-fix (or caffeine fix) in everything! Of course, the branded ones do come in every possible combination now a days. The stronger and bolder the flavors are…the less and less shopping-resistance I have. So, I have been working […]
Aam Khand – A Cup of Joy!
- 01
- April
- 2013
Also Known As: Mango Pudding. Mango Mousee. Alrighty…I used to think, Sheerkhand is the best, until recently I came up with Aamkhand! The fresh crushed cream, loaded with mango chunks and finished with almonds…sort of like a molten mango lava! Only this in a sizable cup…makes it simply irresistible. If you are a mango-freak like […]
Ghee Biscuits – Curb your Cravings!
- 31
- March
- 2013
Also Known As: Ghee Biscuits, Nei Biscuit, Butter cookies, Salt Biscuits, Indian Bakery Cookies. Never been a fan of cookies (biscuits) or at least the one that I make! Of course, from time to time, am bound to make some! I keep them simple and edible. Cookies are super-tempting when its store-bought…where the butter and […]
Seeraga Mittai – Colorful Childhood
- 28
- March
- 2013
Also Known As: Candied Cumin seeds. Jeeraka Mittayi. Jeeraga Mittai. Jeeraka Mittai. Eli Mittai, Palli Mittai. I am a sucker for candies. And my Mommy believes that all my 28 teeth are sweet tooth! Yeah, I have evolved without wisdom teeth, he he. All these years of adulthood has been kind enough on me, when […]
