I thought it would be a good idea to compile all my easy bread recipes in one post. Hope you find something you’d like to try! Do feel free to drop me a comment or email if you have any questions–I’ll be happy to help. Drop me a line at myjhola@gmail.com! Easy Bread Recipes on …
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Finding fresh herbs in the suburbs may have become easier than before, but supply continues to be unreliable. So, when one does discover an innocent pack of very perky looking oregano, one brings it home immediately. I made this bread several months ago, but I remember exactly how excited I was when I found the …
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The Internet has been carrying a lot of buzz about Sun Tea. It seemed like something I would like to do (if and when I found the patience) but I always put it on the back burner thinking I’d like to add some fruit to it. But fruit is difficult to find in my pantry …
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Early summer is when the cashew trees bear fruit. And nut. All along the rich, fertile coastline of India, cashew trees are laden with a flaming orange colored, papaya-like fruit, at the bottom of which, a single cashew nut hangs. This is what makes the nut expensive–one large fruit yields only one nut! The fruit …
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Every Thursday, when the family would fast for the family deity, my great grandma would make naralachi vadi or coconut fudge squares for prasad or the offering to god. She would labor over a panful of freshly grated coconuts, often plucked from the tree in the backyard, stirring in clotted cream, milk and sugar and …
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The market is flooded with color (who needed Holi and its painful issues with water and chemical color?). There are greens in a zillion shades, cooling the eye in the infernal heat, and there are these bright yellows and reds that can pick your mood. Just the sight of a vegetable cart filled to the …
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A few weeks ago, Sir Knife, or Kalyan of Finely Chopped fame, announced his second Food Walk–this time, he was going to Fort. I had missed his first walk, the one to Bohri Mohallah, the mecca of all things non-vegetarian and sinful. I was not going to miss his second walk–especially because the area has …
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