Growing up in a vegetarian Indian home meant that there was no meaty piéce de resistance like a standing rib roast when we entertained. If my mom wanted to step it up a notch, she would serve vegetables whole. The two examples that come to mind immediately for me are her whole roasted cauliflower that…
Three weeks ago my little man started Kindergarten. Now, he has been attending school prior to this but for some reason this feels like he has officially entered “school.” And likewise, I feel like with the start of the school year comes a regular “school” year schedule. The one thing that can be tricky is the weeknight…
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…
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…