In the 8 years that I have been blogging, I have worn many hats—I have taught cooking, manufactured food products for sale, designed food products for retail brands, drawn up menus and recipes for food manufacturers and restaurants, photographed and videographed food in various avataars, and I write about food as much as I can. […]
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{Scroll down for the giveaway winners!} All of last year, I spent in wrapping some projects up, writing my book, being pregnant, and then of course, I almost went in hiding while I got used to being the mother of three children. One of the things I have really missed in all this time, is […]
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I am not one to write posts about a year gone by. Reflections are lessons of a personal nature, and resolutions are best kept secret, I think (save oneself from embarrassment!). But 2014 has been…different. It warrants documentation, if not for anything else, at least so I can look back and gain strength and inspiration […]
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It’s been a while since I posted a recipe for cake. The truth is, the overload of frostings, fondants, and other forms of “perfect” cakes (let’s not even get started on cupcakes) have absolutely turned me off. I don’t like a cake (or anything edible, for that matter) that does not allow a natural ingredient […]
[ Continue Reading... ]Amma learned how to make dinner rolls from a Tarla Dalal book. They used to be pretty but a tad yeasty–thanks to the substandard domestic yeast available three decades ago. She kept bettering the craft, and the shapes you see me make today are the exact same ones that Amma made then. When I was […]
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I did a course in Bakery and Confectionery. Did I tell you that? Long ago. Two years. Of which, we did only breads one whole year. I was still in college; this college had a small (ish) albeit full-scale University-allied course in Culinary Craft and Bakery & Confectionery. Under the Arts discipline, you could choose […]
[ Continue Reading... ]A trip to Mahabaleshwar, a hill station in the Western Ghats of Maharashtra, has become an annual tradition of sorts. Of course, it gets cool (cold) in the hills and compared to the negligible winter of Mumbai, it is a good opportunity to bring out the cardigans and shawls. And socks. Socks are important. Every […]
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