Month: July 2010

  • Baby Food: First Potato Curry

    For the first thirty something years of his life, my brother pretended like he didn’t eat mustard seeds.  My family is South Indian and mustard seeds are a main ingredient of the tempering which is a base for most South Indian foods.  What this means is that for thirty something years, my mom and dad […]

  • Grilled Apples with Haloumi Cheese

    I’ve been on a haloumi cheese kick recently.  Haloumi cheese is salty, chewy, creamy AND grill-able.  Yes, a grill-able cheese.  Sort of like paneer.  Except that paneer lacks the saltiness of haloumi cheese.  So what does one do with a salty, grillable cheese?  You find a sweet, grill-able friend for it.  Apples. I like to […]

  • Baby Food: Easy Peas-y with Cumin and Coriander

    After reading the ingredients in Surya’s rice cereal, I decided to take action.  No more powdered cardboard for my baby.  If I expect her to eat the food we eat when she’s old enough to eat what we’re eating, then I better start building her palate now.  So I’ve been literally building it – one […]

  • hungry desi at home

    I taught a cooking class.  I FINALLY did it.  After talking about it, thinking about it, planning on doing it but then changing my mind, I finally just did it.  And it was a lot of fun.  A little stressful to cook, talk and teach at the same time, but I did it.  And it […]