One of my favorite things ever is a latte in the morning, at home. It used to be that I loved going out for a latte or for breakfast, and I used to go to Starbucks most mornings on the … Continue reading
One of my favorite things ever is a latte in the morning, at home. It used to be that I loved going out for a latte or for breakfast, and I used to go to Starbucks most mornings on the … Continue reading
Goda masala is used in Maharashtrian cooking and it makes the most amazing dal! I have tried it with toor dal, green moong dal, and mysoor dal. This is the recipe I used, but I changed it a little. I used … Continue reading
Update 1/7/15: I made champinon saltado (Peruvian mushroom stirfry) again and decided it needed it’s own post. Go here for the recipe! Oh my I love Pisco Sours. I am generally more of a beer and wine girl, but on a trip … Continue reading
I had this dal the first time I went to India to meet my then boyfriend’s family. At the time I wasn’t a huge fan because of the sweetness, but for some reason, now I love it! When his mom … Continue reading
So Tejas brought home tindora last week. It is also called ivy gourd and a lot of other names I can’t remember right now. I absolutely love this vegetable. He taught me a very simple method using just chili powder … Continue reading
It is Sunday morning and suddenly I feel the need to start a food blog. It didn’t really start out that way. I got up, struggled through a workout video (I had a little wine last night), put milk in the milk foamer, showered, had my latte, and started looking up recipes for this Maharashtran dish called misal pav, my new recipe to tackle. Then I’m not sure what happened, but I started looking up how this blogging thing works, what is the etiquette of recipe blogging, can I just add a blog thingy to my old picture site, and so on.
A couple of hours later I sit here with a cut finger from peeling my finger along with a potato, I have tindora cooking in a little oil trying to burn itself despite my best efforts, I’m looking up my my mother in law’s Gujarati dal recipe, and I’ve started to peel potatoes because of a sudden craving for potato upma which I have never heard of but ran into on my misal search.
And I’m typing this…
I like to think that I am an excellent multi-tasker. But really, that is just not the case. With all these things going at once, it is no wonder that I am bleeding, burning things, and starving!
Anyhow, I did finally start the blog and finish the 3 dishes!