Fear Cooking? – Part 3

Fear Cooking? – Part 3

Pasta Sauces It sucks to cook alone. It sucks if others do not help. It sucks if others are indifferent. And it sucks if there is no one to eat with. It is something that many of us face on a daily basis. And it is primarily the reason that many of us do not cook,...
Fear Cooking – Part 2

Fear Cooking – Part 2

Know Your Pasta Pasta, in our country has almost become synonyms with fast food now. Every place from hi-end restaurants to casual caffe’ to even roadside stands sell this Italian treat. I had my first stint with it a very long time back in a neighbourhood mall with a...
Spaghetti Aglio e Olio

Spaghetti Aglio e Olio

Ingredients Half red and yellow Bell Peppers, chopped One onion chopped 6 cloves of garlic chopped Spaghetti (boiled) Red wine/Apple Cider Vinegar Sugar (1/2 tsp) Salt (1 tsp) Olive oil (5 tsp) Basil Cheese (as you want) Method Heat the olive oil in the pan. Add the...
Spinach and Carrot Spaghetti

Spinach and Carrot Spaghetti

Spinach & Carrot Spaghetti Ingredients 1 chopped Onion 6 garlic cloves, chopped 1 chopped carrot 10 leaves of Spinach (washed and chopped) 1 pureed tomato 500 gms Chicken Stock 1-2 spoon chilli flakes 1 tbs salt 1 tbs sugar 1 packet of boiled spaghetti Olive oil...
Spaghetti and Meatballs

Spaghetti and Meatballs

Spaghetti Meatballs in Tomato sauce Through my non-vegetarian years, I grew up on something called ‘Mutsch’ (pronounced Matss) which, in simpler words are minced meatballs in Kashmiri spice gravy. But in recent times, I have heard more about them from my brother’s...
The Fungi I Love

The Fungi I Love

  I have always loved Mushrooms. As a child the only memory I had of them was in the form of a subzi made with onions, tomatoes, and a ton of oil. There was no other way to have them but to tell the truth, I could taste the chilli and onions more in than the mushrooms...