You heard that right. It’s a soup, not a juice, not a smoothie. It’s a liquid that you ladle into a soup bowl, garnish, and eat with a soup spoon sitting in your favourite corner in the house. I was really looking forward to a small visit out of town and suddenly, it had to […]
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If you bake a decadent chocolate cake for my birthday, I will probably be a tad bit disappointed. I know. “80% ” means little to me. I’d rather take a fruit-based cake instead. Or even a plain and simple pound cake. But. I have my moments. I sometimes crave a small square of good, dark […]
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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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When my brother and I decided to start our recipe video channel, we were greatly influenced by food shows from abroad–the extreme close ups showing off the colors and textures of the food, the perspective into which an episode or recipe was placed. Back home, food shows were (and in most part, still are) highly […]
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Come spring, Radha kaku would try and find out if her sister, Auntie Evie had any plans of coming down to Mumbai. Radha kaku had family roots up North in Delhi and Bathinda. She would pine for the kale gaajar ki kaanji every season, and somehow, through this one or that, she’d get her quota […]
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It’s been breads, breads, and breads for a while now. Let me start with the highlights: 1. I did a feature for BBC Good Food India–the March issue carries six of my favorite bread recipes (focaccia, multigrain loaf, Nutella pull-apart rolls, dinner rolls, everyday white loaf, and pita) and a small article on the science […]
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