Baking in Bombay

Baking Classes in Mumbai So many of you emailed me with questions, recommendations and information about what I use in the kitchen, and this post is filled with all the answers.  I’m hardly able to keep up with replying to individual emails so here are all your questions answered, hopefully. There is a WEALTH of […]
16 years ago

Spice Infused Grapes

What are better than grapes? Spice infused grapes! When I was at brunch at a local restaurant a while ago, I kept going back to fill my plate up with grapes, over and over again. It was something to do with the sweet scent that accompanied the grapes that made me eat so many grapes […]
16 years ago

Ginger and Honey Roasted Almonds

  December should be dubbed Good Food Month. For, this is the one month where I end up bookmarking the maximum number of recipes. And it’s also the one month where I tell myself I can eat without feeling too guilty because, well, everyone else is (see, this kind of peer pressure isn’t bad). Given […]
16 years ago

Chocolate Chip Shortbread

Or, instead, this post should be titled ‘I Love Dorie Greenspan’. The more recipes I try from her book Baking: From My Home to Yours, the more I feel like I don’t need any other baking book. I love how each recipe is written so beautifully with personal notes from experience and ideas for variation. […]
16 years ago

Mushrooms with Bacon and Sage

  I made these crazy delicious mushrooms last week. Has a familiar ring to it? Even for my previous post (the marinated eggplants), it took me a whole week to get to posting the recipe. Why, you ask? Of late I’m enjoying a little more of cooking over baking. Of late, I’m not taking too […]
16 years ago

Marinated Aubergine with Garlic and Herbs

Did you miss me? I hope you did. Let me tell you what I was upto – I was writing a chapter for 55 Knives. Erm, what’s that? That is an upcoming e-book that will feature some really, really awesome food bloggers, including Nicole of Pinch My Salt and Sprouted Kitchen. I was (and still […]
16 years ago

Parmesan Roasted Broccoli

  Does this look like the same old broccoli that we are all used to? I love broccoli. I mean, what’s not to like? It’s healthy, it’s fresh, it’s colourful, it’s crunchy, it’s tasty, it’s great! It stumps me when I read stories about parents have a tough time shoving broccoli down their little ones’ […]
16 years ago

The best Le Creuset-y birthday ever!

So I got the most awesome things for my birthday today (I turn 23!). Celebrations got an early start yesterday morning when I got two packages in the mail. One was the Ottolenghi cookbook that Hilda sent me (for the giveaway I won a few days ago) and the bigger surprise was a pack of […]
16 years ago

Pie Dough 101 + Simple Apple Pie

I think an apple pie is one of the first things I baked when I got an oven. I used a pie dough recipe from a nondescript local book and didn’t pay much attention to baking blind (we will get to this shortly). Back then, this was an unnecessary step that the naïve me thought […]
16 years ago

Banana Bread with Chocolate Chips and Crystallised Ginger

Doesn’t everyone just love a thick slice of banana bread? And coupled with a glass of cold milk or a dollop of whipped cream, it makes for an offer that is hard to turn down. But what if it has crystallised ginger and a good handful of chocolate chips thrown in? Yes. Just as I […]
17 years ago

Cheesecake Swirled Brownies

The BAKED Brownie recipe + the most delicious cheesecake recipe = outrageous cheesecake swirled brownies. Oh yes, this is for real.  The brownie batter (the baked recipe, nothing less) is topped with a generous dose of cheesecake batter and swirled for the happy marbled effect, and then finally scattered with a good handful of semisweet […]
17 years ago

My Favourite Tomato Basil Sauce

I despise eating food off the shelf – the boxed, canned, frozen, heat-and-eat kind. I always wonder what sorts of preservative must have been used in it to maintain that shelf life. I especially think that something like a tomato sauce should never be bought because it is so easy to make! Let the onion […]
17 years ago