I tried another fantastic recipe, Fiery Eggplant, from Anupy Singla’s The Indian Slow Cooker cookbook (Thank you again Meghna and Samit!). Slow cooking is great because you can throw everything in the crock pot in the morning and it is … Continue reading
I had no idea how dinner was going to turn out last night. I knew the tofu and beans tasted good, but the topping and sauce? It wasn’t until the first bite that I realized these Jamaican jerk tofu tacos … Continue reading
This is a fantastic curry for Andhra style biryani. We served it at a get together with Andhra egg and vegetable biryani and onion raita. The recipe is adapted from Sailu’s Kitchen. 3 tablespoons oil 4 cloves 2 cardamom 2 pieces cinnamon … Continue reading
Four of my last five meals have been biryani! I think I am finally a bit tired of it :-). Tejas and I made Andhra style biryani recently and had a few people over and there are so many leftovers! Biryani … Continue reading
The other night I was going to be eating solo, so I was planning on just throwing something quick together, but then somehow I ended up making Mysore dosa with a new kind of sambhar! It started because I looked … Continue reading
Updated 3/30/14: I’ve updated this recipe a few times, adding more sambar powder, cumin seeds and coconut. Also canned crushed tomatoes are especially good in this! The only thing is that this recipe is not quite so quick as it … Continue reading
I am a big fan of trying to make everything from scratch at least once, but if find a great store bought item or ingredient, I will definitely use it. The brand Deep makes an absolutely fantastic coconut chutney and … Continue reading
In one of the many food type emails (recipes, restaurants, etc.) I get a day was a picture of pasta with mushrooms. The email was for a restaurant so there wasn’t any recipe, but I started looking up mushroom pasta … Continue reading
Yesterday my google search for dinner was exactly this: “soy saucy and tangy”. I wasn’t sure what I wanted, but something light, Asian, soy saucy, and tangy! This recipe in the search inspired my recipe for Chinese five spice tofu lettuce … Continue reading
Last night I updated my recipe for channa bhatura a little, so thought I would re-post. Channa or chole bhatura is chick pea or garbanzo bean curry with big puffy fried bread. A while back, Tejas and I had channa bhatura … Continue reading