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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]