Roasted root vegetable soup with grilled shrimp
Refer to this recipe to learn how to make the beetroots with mustard seeds and galic.
Dhaba style handi mutton
Dhaba style goat curry An American friend who recently went to India told me that she found Indian restaurants very intimidating. The long menus with unpronounceable names of dishes that offer little to no description of the individual items on the list demand a certain familiarity with the place, she said. But then she said…
12 uses of microwave beyond heating
Uses of microwave beyond reheating Peels veggie skins Some root vegetables and squashes, like sweet potatoes and pumpkins, can to tough to peel. Stick the vegetables in your microwave for 2-3 minutes to make the skin more pliable for peeling. Peels garlic Heat garlic for 15 seconds. The moisture in the garlic steams and eases…
Grilled pork ribs with spicy barbecue sauce
These days I receive only two things as gifts: crockery and cookbooks. I am not complaining. I love it! 🙂 This trend started when during my first year in grad school my friend, Dayoung, with similar interests in all things gluttonous, bought me this beautiful Korean-American cookbook called Kimchi Chronicles. In fact, my interest in writing…
Paneer Tikka
Paneer Tikka Recipe
Dudh Shukto
Sarat, a fleeting season between Monsoon and Autumn, is the most favorite season of Bengalis (India has 6 distinct seasons), not only because it is marked by the three most important religious festivals of the Bengali calendar, but because the primary icons of these festivals are three Goddesses, namely Durga, Kali, and Lakshmi. The sun starts to…
Holy cow, when did this happen?
Read this story on Huffington Post. India is home to 300 million cattle and is the world’s largest exporter of beef—exporting $4.8 billion worth of beef only last year—and its fifth-biggest consumer. Not only is the beef industry big in India, so far we have also been able to exercise individual freedom to eat or not…
Iced spiced chai
Have you ever seen Death in Paradise? It is a British-French crime drama television series set on the Caribbean islands of Guadeloupe. If you haven’t seen it yet, you haven’t missed much. Nothing happens other than a numerous hackneyed stereotypes. Just for fun I will give you a quick rundown of the broad events. In…
Achari egg curry
How to make achari egg curry? Imagine that one morning you wake up in New York to find that it has snowed all night. The stairway looks like a death trap, but you brave it anyway to find that your car is buried in snow. Or maybe you wake up in Kolkata or Mumbai on a…
Grown-up Brazilian Lemonade
A few days ago I stumbled upon a recipe of “Brazilian lemonade”. Two things about the recipe made me very happy. First, “Brazilian”; second, “lemonade”. Two things about the recipe also made me very curious. The list of ingredients included whole limes (rind and everything included!), sugar, water, and condensed milk! First, all recipes that use lime…
