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
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...
Fear Cooking? – PART 1
Baking Cakes I was not born into a household where home-made cakes were a normality. In all my years i know of only one instance when my mother baked a cake and that was for my first birthday, an event that i do not remember but cherish if only from old photographs....
Zucchini, Tomato, Pepper Tacos
Ingredients Zucchini - 1 chopped Apple - 1/2 chopped Tomato - 2 chopped Onion - 1 chopped Bell Pepper - 1 chopped Red Chillies - 3 chopped Orange juice - 1/2 cup Sugar - 1 tbsp Salt - 1/2 tbsp Olive oil - 2 tbsp Taco Shells Processed Cheese Recipe Add Olive...
Fig, Cougette and Apple salad with Feta Cheese
On my recent trip to Crawford market's bustling lanes, i happened to buy a lot of vegetables, more than i had space for in my tiny refrigerator. Nonetheless, when life gives you some cash to buy Figs, you put your mind into making something out of it for dinner. To...
Carrot Pancakes with Orange syrup and Caramelized Bananas
So my first MAJOR Sunday breakfast brunch was a success and one of the two favourite recipes that I took away from the event were super classy and also super simple. The easiest one featured bananas with a twist which made them taste even better than they usually...
Cupcakes with Orange and Lemon syrup!
Ingredients (serves 6) 1 cup Flour ¼ cup Butter ½ cup granulated sugar 1 tbsp baking soda 1 large egg Fresh orange juice 3 tbsp Sugar Juice of half a lemon Method Preheat the oven to 180 deg C Mix the flour with the baking soda in a bowl. In a separate cup beat the...
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...
Croissants
Everyone loves Croissants. You are inhuman if you don’t. And after I finally made them from scratch yesterday I found out exactly why they taste so freaking brilliant. Because of all the butter. And because of all the Work! I thought making tarts was work but after...
Goa – Part 2
After 2 hours of what i can only describe as intense female aggression at its worst, which is almost always visible in the Mumbai locals i managed to reach the Vasai Road station to run after my train in full Bollywood style. Of course, there is always the guarantee...
Chicago Part II
While i had my share of great food in New York, unfortunately time was of essence over there so i couldn’t go about wasting half a day waiting in line outside a hot-dog place or driving outside the city limits early morning for some roadside batter fried shrimps....
Chicago Part I
I had the absolute pleasure of visiting in this beautiful city in various times during the year, from the freezing cold, to the blossoming spring and the absolutely delicious Autumn. But of course the winner remains summer, not because of the weather but because it...
New York City
What do i say about NYC, especially since i was there only for 4 days, time in which i could only just barely scratch the surface of this weird, magical city that made me wonder why the f*** do all the millionaires and billionaires live in whatever shithole of the...
Bhuj (Rann of Kutch)
Let me be honest. I haven’t had a good trip since last year’s Bhutan/Darjeeling and was really hoping that the much glamorized Rann of Kutch with its ‘Kutch nahi dekha to kuch nahi dekha’ advertisements was going to be it. And yes, the place is spectacularly beautiful...
Darjeeling
When you hear the word ‘Darjeeling’ the first thing that comes to mind is the tea. And for once it is true. If you are a tea lover than this overcrowded and commercialized tourist destination is for you. However bad your hotel may be, you can always find solace in a...
Pondicherry
I guess the 2nd of October isn’t the best of times to visit a land of tax-free booze but then sometimes you just don’t have the choice. So I left with a bunch of my girl friends and we took our first step towards a place which seemed as illusive to us as France...
Gokarna
In all my travels (the few i have had) the one thing that has always left a bad taste has been the food. But, for once i was able to experience heaven. The huge expanse of the Arabian sea, the sand and good food that did not burn a hole in my pocket. While in Gokarna,...
Goa Part 1
My travel to Goa has always been an expensive ordeal. As one of the restaurant owners near the Mabor beach told me, "North goa is full year season madam. You want crowd, you go to Baga." But i have seen the crowd. North goa has got this infectious spirit that gets to...
Goa – Part 2
After 2 hours of what i can only describe as intense female aggression at its worst, which is almost always visible in the Mumbai locals i managed to reach the Vasai Road station to run after my train in full Bollywood style. Of course, there is always the guarantee...
Chicago Part II
While i had my share of great food in New York, unfortunately time was of essence over there so i couldn’t go about wasting half a day waiting in line outside a hot-dog place or driving outside the city limits early morning for some roadside batter fried shrimps....
Chicago Part I
I had the absolute pleasure of visiting in this beautiful city in various times during the year, from the freezing cold, to the blossoming spring and the absolutely delicious Autumn. But of course the winner remains summer, not because of the weather but because it...
New York City
What do i say about NYC, especially since i was there only for 4 days, time in which i could only just barely scratch the surface of this weird, magical city that made me wonder why the f*** do all the millionaires and billionaires live in whatever shithole of the...
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
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...
Fear Cooking? – PART 1
Baking Cakes I was not born into a household where home-made cakes were a normality. In all my years i know of only one instance when my mother baked a cake and that was for my first birthday, an event that i do not remember but cherish if only from old photographs....
Zucchini, Tomato, Pepper Tacos
Ingredients Zucchini - 1 chopped Apple - 1/2 chopped Tomato - 2 chopped Onion - 1 chopped Bell Pepper - 1 chopped Red Chillies - 3 chopped Orange juice - 1/2 cup Sugar - 1 tbsp Salt - 1/2 tbsp Olive oil - 2 tbsp Taco Shells Processed Cheese Recipe Add Olive...
Fig, Cougette and Apple salad with Feta Cheese
On my recent trip to Crawford market's bustling lanes, i happened to buy a lot of vegetables, more than i had space for in my tiny refrigerator. Nonetheless, when life gives you some cash to buy Figs, you put your mind into making something out of it for dinner. To...
Carrot Pancakes with Orange syrup and Caramelized Bananas
So my first MAJOR Sunday breakfast brunch was a success and one of the two favourite recipes that I took away from the event were super classy and also super simple. The easiest one featured bananas with a twist which made them taste even better than they usually...
Cupcakes with Orange and Lemon syrup!
Ingredients (serves 6) 1 cup Flour ¼ cup Butter ½ cup granulated sugar 1 tbsp baking soda 1 large egg Fresh orange juice 3 tbsp Sugar Juice of half a lemon Method Preheat the oven to 180 deg C Mix the flour with the baking soda in a bowl. In a separate cup beat the...
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...
Croissants
Everyone loves Croissants. You are inhuman if you don’t. And after I finally made them from scratch yesterday I found out exactly why they taste so freaking brilliant. Because of all the butter. And because of all the Work! I thought making tarts was work but after...
Bhuj (Rann of Kutch)
Let me be honest. I haven’t had a good trip since last year’s Bhutan/Darjeeling and was really hoping that the much glamorized Rann of Kutch with its ‘Kutch nahi dekha to kuch nahi dekha’ advertisements was going to be it. And yes, the place is spectacularly beautiful...
Kidney Beans (Rajma)
Like most Indians I know, my favourite food is Rajma Chawal/Rajma Paranthas. But as I found out recently, Rajma is also one of those recipes that are hard to replicate. Everyone has their own recipe, but more importantly, even if people follow the same recipe, they...