Indian food is very complex and interesting which is why I (and I’m guessing maybe you) like to eat it so much. However, that means when you step in the kitchen to prepare it you need a bevy of spices. I know it can be frustrating to embark on cooking a new cuisine only to…
I’ve been toying with adding Indian flavors to non-Indian recipes. Sometimes it works beautifully and elevates a dish and others it just totally falls flat. For those that have not tried it, fusion cuisine can be really really hard to get right. I am happy to say that this sweet potato recipe is an example…
Until I was in middle school, I didn’t realize that the majority of the United States considers tapioca mainly an ingredient for sweet pudding. I remember the day of my enlightenment well. I was eating outside with my dear friend Tara and she opened up a container and offered me a taste of this exotic sounding tapioca…
When I cook, it generally serves as an escape from my everyday life even though it is totally a mundane task. This is especially true of Indian food because it usually takes me back to my childhood or to a dish I loved while on vacation in India. This is also why I cook foods from…
Friends, warmer weather is coming….I can almost taste it in the air. And, of course, you need a short list of refreshing drinks that will quench your thirst and excite your palate and I’ve got just the thing for you today that also happens to be my personal favorite – salty lassi. I know many…
So I have to admit something right off the bat. Until very recently, the past couple of months actually, I thought that poppy seed were little black seeds only – like the kind you find in poppy seed muffins or bagels. And I was always a bit confused because whenever I ate Aloo Posto, loosely…
When I first met my husband, Arjun back in 2000 he would regale me with stories of foods he grew up eating, many with a heavy seafood emphasis, all of which sounded terribly exotic to me. My exposure to seafood up until college had been fairly limited and even 15 years ago I was still…
During my childhood, aloo gobi was on the regular dinner vegetable rotation. If we didn’t eat it once a week, we certainly ate it once a fortnight. And I have always loved it. In a cuisine where vegetables are gussied up with a kaleidoscope of spices, it can be quite refreshing to eat a dish…
Palak paneer is always one of the first dishes I order when I’m trying a out new Indian restaurant. For those that have never tasted this dish, it is basically silky Indian creamed spinach that is studded with Indian cheese or paneer. Paneer is a fresh cheese made by curdling hot milk with an acid like lemon…