Hiding our smiles with little or no show of excitement, we exchanged glances - the type which only sisters understand the secret language of. Later, we would discuss feeling guilty for being happy ab...
I sat on the staircase cuddling the bundle of clothes I had tied in my moms dupatta (a multi purpose long scarf worn by South Asian women). The scent of my moms on the dupatta was reassuring that I w...
In blogging world like in real life, ups and downs are as permanent as they can be. Shayma Saadat from the blog - The Spice Spoon, is one friend who has supported me from the beginning and never fail...
Pin It What is your favorite lentil? Indian brown lentil also called masoor dal, is my absolute favorite. There is something about the mild earthy flavor with aromatic Indian spices and spicy hot gi...
The cold has finally subsided, giving way to a spring like weather. The blankets and woolens are rolled back into the closet for next season. The windows are kept open all through the day, without th...
Friday brings mixed feelings to surface every single week. It is the only day of the week we get to spent together. Yet, before the day starts, fear of the day ending too fast starts evading my mind....
Today’s recipe is inspired from a traditional sweet recipe from the city of Kolkatta called Mishti Doi, which M has childhood memories of. Mishti Doi is also called Lal doi meaning red yogurt due to ...
Growing up I only remember occasional traces of shredded beetroot in our salads, often overshadowed by many other ingredients, such that I could barely remember their taste. In my own kitchen, I ofte...
Food has not been on my top of my mind lately and hence the lack of posts. When my mind is void of any food creativity, I fall back on food that I grew up with. Food that doesnt require me to think m...
"I need to eat Irani kebab" that was precisely the first thing I demanded to eat when I landed in Kuwait to live with M. I had spend three years of graduation in India only imagining Arabic...
Pin It It is humbling to know anyone would think I would know anything about Ayurveda. Honestly, I dont. What I do know nevertheless is simple Indian home remedies, which almost every Indian househol...
Pin It I was fifteen or may be sixteen, when I realized I could live ten days straight just on chicken soup. In a desperate attempt to lose couple of pounds I declared a ten day soup diet. Of course,...
Pin It M can pretty much eat anything thats presented in a snack form. When I learned this, I started stuffing his hate foods into invisible pockets of puff pastry, in sandwiches and meatballs. Like ...
Pin It Im such a winter person. Winter means hot spicy comfort food, standing near the stove while cooking a pot full of soup, hot chocolate every morning, lying on the bed all day with a warm cozy b...
Eating fruits somehow always makes me nostalgic. Every season, after every meal, we would sit around my mother while she meticulously peeled and chopped the fruits for us. Summer were often more la...
I hope you all are as excited about 2012 as I am. I wanted to end this year on a sweet note and wish you a very happy new year. I cant thank you enough for being generously supportive over the year. ...
Paneer was nothing but a cheap filler we siblings used to complain to mom, asking for meat instead. Like all things we didnt like, we ganged up against her, protesting to not eat it, leaving her wi...
"What are you upto madam?" asked the shopkeeper of the moms favorite dairy products shop, after he noticed me inquiring, pressing hundredth time the block of paneer he had handed to me ten ...
In this week, Eid Al Adha will be celebrated by Muslims all over the world, to comommerate Ibrahims devotion to God and his willingness to sacrifice his own son when God commanded. But just before he...
In my last post on Udaipur, many of you noticed the lack of food photos. So I dug into my hard disk to find some and in the process found more photos I thought were worth sharing. continue to read>...
Why dont we buy persimmon often? M asked while we were walking through the fruit aisle of our supermarket. Always armed with an answer to Ms food related queries, or so I pride, I couldnt answer that...
If it wasnt for fusion food, my morning would be omelette less and that could be such a pity. And atleast half the time in the week, there would be no breakfast for M. And thats only calling trouble ...
The sound of rain does something to my spirit. Or our spirit to put it rightly. Be it a light drizzle or heavy rains, we took it upon us to enjoy every minute of it, for we never know how long we had...
I have always thought of myself as a small town girl even though I hardly spend any time in my small hometown of Galiakot, a small town near Udaipur city, Rajasthan. The vacations I loathed as a chil...
Hey guys! Im back. And trying to grasp the fact that a great vacation has indeed come to an end. But I must say Im settling just fine. Lots of work to get in order before Im back to blogging so I inv...
My dear friend Brian from A Thought For Food is sharing some chocolate love with us today. A Thought for Food is one of the earliest blog I fell in love with when I started blogging. From recipes to ...
India is a vast country and when I say vast I mean really vast. Each state, each region even each village has special cuisine. Even if one wanted, it is next to impossible to sample all the food in I...
Before I started blogging, the word gluten free was just a label I read on food products. My only understanding of it was a diet where one has to avoid gluten. It was after I started following blogs ...
I must admit Im having a time of my life back in India with my family but I miss blogging. I miss being able to visit your blogs and it is kind of difficult for me to explain it to others. Anyway bec...
Italian cuisine has always fascinated me and as much as I love it, I must admit my knowledge about it is quite limited. For more than a year now, I have been following Giulias blog Juls Kitchen, who ...
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