Quick meals were never a part of my agenda. I love making complicated recipes, and any recipe that mentions using a premade sauce, I skip. I always had the impression that food made from scratch always tasted better. But that was back in the days when I had all the time in the world. As [...]
Archive for October, 2006
25 Oct
Rasmalai and a lesson for life!
As a kid, I used to be an avid helper in the kitchen. My sister hated cooking (still does), and so when I started helping out in the kitchen it was a happening event. People were impressed at my interest in cooking, and aunties and ammachis visiting our place would shower praises on me! “Look [...]
22 Oct
Autumn salad
Salad was never a big deal when I lived in Kerala. It was just a part of the lunch or dinner that I never paid much attention to. It was usually an onion,tomato cucumber salad or a cabbage salad. That was all the salads I knew back then. Things really did take a turn [...]
10 Oct
C is for chive
Chive flower – my entry for Flower Fest, hosted by the very talented Sree
Chives are abundant in our garden during spring and summer. They have small purple heads and have a lot of oniony flavor. If using in salads, I seperate the flower into small pieces and scatter them. Little bursts of onion flavor. Some [...]
9 Oct
Okra- I miss you!
Okra was one of my all time favorite veggies. But seems like I don’t have them enought these days, mostly because my husband doesn’t like it much. It is no fun eating something by yourself, but whenever this dish is cooked it is finished off almost entirely by me.
One of the special requests of my [...]
4 Oct
B is for butterfly!
When we first saw our new house, it was in the middle of winter. Other than the snow covered ground there was nothing much to see outside. We finally moved into the house during summer and were just taken aback to see all the diverse plantlife that just kind of ’sprung up’. Although we have [...]
