Garam masala is one of India’s quintessential spice blends, a staple of the Punjabi kitchen and popular in the north of the subcontinent. Traditional…
Mango is, as cliché as it sounds, truly the king of fruits – in India at least, if not the world. It’s amazing how…
Aloo poori used to be a regular dish served in daily meals throughout India. That’s how I remember it. Increasingly, I notice that it…
I shared one version of muthiya in my recipe for turiya muthiya shaak recently. In that dish, the muthiyas were small, deep-fried dumplings which…
Indian sweets aside, my experiences of desserts while growing up consist largely of two particular treats: one was ice cream, and the other was…
Ridge gourd, a water-based vegetable known in Gujarati as “turiya”, happens to grow abundantly all year-round in Tamil Nadu. Here, it is called “peerkanga”.…
As mentioned in my previous post, strawberry compote is a versatile topping that can be used on a wide range of desserts. After sharing…
My husband’s most favourite dessert of all time is, hands down, strawberry compote. To be fair, a compote is not the dessert itself, only…
On our first wedding anniversary, decades ago now, my husband and I went out to dinner with our entire family. We went to a…