When coffee shops became a culture in India, cookies became an eating phenomenon among adults. Children by then had learnt to eat cookies, a tempting sweet biscuit often spotted in their story books and...
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Recipes
I love that Engish film called Holiday. What I like about it the most is that I see myself comfortable in Kate Winslet’s English country setting as equally as I see myself in Cameron...
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There are two types of people in the world. Soup people and non soup people. Non soup people will resist a hot bowl of delish even when caught in a blizzard! To them a...
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I read a recipe like this in a one-pot book. Every recipe was delightful in that book. This one stayed with me. I have added my own twists to whatever I remembered and the...
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Cherry tomatoes and Indian cooking are really not that compatible. In Indian villages cherry tomatoes are ignored as they drop from plants and remain scattered on the ground. They remain like that until they...
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Simplicity is my mantra in cooking. I try to come up with simple un-daunting recipes. I often think of some who are forced to cook, to table good food for their family but who...
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I absolutely adore the nuttiness that Black rice exudes. The fragrance is woody, the taste nutty. I do not even want to discuss the gorgeous purple colour it lends. I have written somewhere before...
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Middle Easterns, East Kenyans, Indians, Iranians, South East Asians and more people in the world eat the Samosa. It is quite the universal snack. Not the healthiest of snacks, but tastiest for sure, this...
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October weather in Mumbai is not much cooler than summer. While it is the festival season and the ladies of the city indulge in their traditional silk which is so different from the otherwise...
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This recipe is a golden find for Eastern Indians who eat the fresh water fish, ‘Rohu’ and its close cousin ‘Katla’. It is such a pleasant change from the curries that get usually made...
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