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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 […]
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Shredded Paneer and Peas
What happens when you put rectangles of paneer through your food processor with the shredder blade on? You end up with soft piles of stringy tendrils of paneer. What happens when you saute soft piles of stringy tendrils of paneer? It becomes soft and gooey creamy cheesy deliciousness. That then gets eaten quickly. Update: I […]
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Baked Sweet Potatoes with Red Chillies and Garlic
Organic brown rice, organic rice bran extract, tocopherols (Vitamin E), alpha-amylase (enzyme) and electrolytic iron. That was my daughter’s foray into the world of solids. Rice cereal. That makes me so sad. After a few days of tightly closed, pursed lips, I tasted the cereal myself. While Surya was watching me. Alert: novice error. I […]
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Planning an Indian Menu: And The Accompaniments Have It
A few years back, Rajat and I hosted a dinner party. I made palak channa, aloo gobi and Indira at Mahanandi’s pudina paneer. Each dish was my best (if you’ll indulge me and let me toot my own horn – which really, you have no choice but to let me). Really. It was some of my […]
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Planning an Indian Menu: What to Serve with What?
Wet. Dry. I had never thought of Indian food in these terms until I met my husband. But thinking back, even the South Indian meals we had growing up could be broken into these categories. Monday – Sambar. Wet. Stir fried eggplant. Dry. Tuesday – Rasam. Wet. Cabbage and peas. Dry. Wednesday – Spinach daal. […]
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Cinnamon Apple Pecan Muffins
A little something sweet to start your week off. Yes, even we stop with the spicy and savory for the occasional sweet treat. Moist whole wheat muffins studded with sweet cinnamon spiced apples and crunchy nuggets of pecans topped with brown sugar. The perfect treat with a cup of chai on a cold, rainy day. […]
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Kung Pao Seitan & Spicy, Sweet Corn Fried Rice
Back in the day before tofu was really mainstream and vegetarianism the new “in” thing, I was suffering away in Irmo, South Carolina deprived of all of the wonders of soy and wheat gluten. Even worse, I was oblivious of my deprivation. Then my brother moved to Washington, D.C. and Vegetable Garden on Rockland Pike […]