“What are some popular Indian cocktails?”, my friend (Korean) asked as we were sipping our mojitos at the counter of a local sports bar on a game day, wearing maroon, trying hard to understand American college football (because our school was playing). I put down my mojito and stared at her for a few seconds too…
My friends frequently ask me where I get the time and energy to cook at home, or how I plan my recipes, or how I manage to (somewhat) maintain my weight with the storms that I cook up on a regular basis. Truth is, I really don’t have time. As a graduate student I have…
I received so many requests for healthy recipes from my Not a Curry friends that I decided to create a healthy/weight-friendly section for my readers, and this savory oatmeal pancakes with coconut chutney are the first in a series of recipes that are healthy but also delicious. Weight loss can be difficult. I have struggled…
I don’t drink hot chocolate very much, because as a food blogger I have enough calories flowing around in my kitchen to add hot chocolate to the already long list. But winter is coming, the sun is lazy, the air is crisp, my bedroom smells musty from my wintertime quilt, and Starbucks cups are coming…
People ask me to post healthy and easy breakfast recipes all the time, especially tasty oatmeal recipes. Now, I love oatmeal. I can eat oatmeal with just a little water and some nuts and raisins thrown in. My husband, however, hates oatmeal with a passion. So, sometimes I try new ways to make disguised oatmeal…
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…
As an Indian living in the US you are indoctrinated into certain things. You learn to appreciate beer, its subtleties, and the fact that it is completely okay to drink (just) beer at high-end wine bars. You learn that apple and cinnamon must always go together. You learn that pumpkins can go in desserts, even exclusively so….
While all my other friends are singing praises of the beautiful fall colors and posting pictures of beautiful skies and meadows all over facebook, Texas (at least College Station) decides to be a rebel, confusing October with unusually high temperatures and uncharacteristically long rainy days. I love rain, of course, but this whimsical, unsympathetic, and…
I asked my friend, Kate, what her favorite meal of the day is. She replied, “breakfast, because that’s what you want to eat when you are still half asleep”. Both I and the husband agree. Breakfast is our favorite meal of the day too. There is nothing more comforting than a table set with fresh flowers,…