When a Birdy’s outlet opened up bang opposite my house, I did a little jig to celebrate easy access to decent bread. (In this area of Thane, it is rare to find anything beyond a blue packet of sliced commercial white bread.) I had dreams of eating fresh garlic bread with a casual pasta on …
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Once Diwali is over and the ingredients for your Christmas cake have been soaked in copious amounts of alcohol, you are left with huge amounts of nuts and dried fruit. Stuff that will definitely go to waste before you know it. That is, of course, if you live in humid climates or have a tiny …
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Like most people in Bombay, who have no access to backyards or dainty vegetable patches, I live my herb garden dream through my wrought iron grille windows. As you’ve seen from here. Here’s another glimpse! A new cherry chili plant in bloom These will be plump, juicy, red tomatoes someday! My faithful, 5-year-old curry leaf …
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Aai’s picture, courtesy: Nirmala Purushotam My maternal gran has been one of the biggest influences to my culinary obsession. As a kid, I would be perched atop a tall stool in her bright and airy south Bombay kitchen while she made the silkiest, thousand-layered ghadi-chi-poli. She would send me out to the living room as …
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These past few days, I’ve seen a jaw too many drop promptly to the floor every time I say anything about baking bread at home. For a country of people that buy their bread in plastic packets from the corner grocer, baking bread at home is either ridiculously unnecessary or impossibly complex. This video is …
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Two days ago, my nieces, Shreya and Ananya, kicked up a racket when their grandma came over to pick them up from my place. They never want to leave. Especially now that Avanee follows everything they say or do, making them feel like important people. Finally, I told them they’d have to leave because it …
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I just realized I hadn’t put up any pictures from Avanee’s first birthday. Considering I write a food blog, it’s quite a shame I don’ have pictures of the cakes I made, don’t you think? I made three kinds– vanilla bean cupcakes with pink-tinted cream cheese frosting, vanilla and Nutella cake covered with fondant and …
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