Easy baked brie recipe So you have planned the perfect Christmas dinner. You are slow roasting a beautiful chicken, the ham looks appetizing with cranberry sauce, the creamed spinach and mashed potatoes are absolutely delicious, the green beans casserole is standing by, the hearty pickled root vegetables salad looks colorful and vibrant, the apple pie…
It’s 10:15 a.m on what appears to be a rather uneventful day. Â The sky is gloomy, uncharacteristic for an April Texas, and my house is empty (Husband is away for a few days). On days such as this I like to spend my time around the kitchen. There’s something about the aroma of warm spices,…
Eggplant Fritters It has been raining all day today. I have been sitting in my appartment trying to finish some long overdue readings, intermittently sipping from a cup of once steaming tea and looking out the misty window. It is rather usual for these parts to be raining all day. While all my American friends…
Chicken Tandoori is undoubtedly the most popular Indian delicacy across the world. Yet, the history of Chicken Tandoori recipe dates back only to 1920. It is first known to have been prepared in a Peshwari restaurant named Moti Mahal (now in Pakistan) by an experimental chef Mr. Gurjal. The popularity of chicken tandoori is largely…
People are always surprised to hear that I have been to Goa six times. That’s where we honeymooned, that’s where I was stranded for a weekend after a flight had to divert from Mumbai due to flooding, that’s where I went on random whims of friends, and that’s where I want to go again and…
There is something infallible about butter toasts. No matter how sad and gloomy things get, buttered toasts always have the potential to give life an instant uplift. Once you bite into the crusty surface and taste the warm, salty, and buttery interior, you momentarily forget everything. Toasts work like magic. What’s even more magical is that it is impossible…
Kolkata is crowded with pavement stalls of street food-nameless, squalid, obscure, food stalls made conspicuous only by the clank of metal spatulas and the smell of warm spices. The stalls typically have tarpaulin covers protecting the wooden benches that delineate the stalls. If you are a Calcuttan, you know not to care about the appearances…
What’s the need to add another samosa recipe to the plethora of samosa recipes already out there? Well, because: a) this is an Indian food blog, b) this is a Bengali samosa recipe, which is considerably different from the samosas that you get in Indian restaurants here, c) you can never have too many samosa…
How to make chicken kathi roll? I left my hometown, Calcutta, exactly seven years ago. Since then, Calcutta has become something of a vacation home for me, where I get to go only once every year to enjoy my mom’s home-cooked food, the company of my beautiful family and friends, chicken Kathi rolls, and the…