Coconut Okra Curry

This is one of my mom’s okra (lady’s finger) dish that she makes retaining the structure of the vegetable. There is no slime, and is overall a mild dish with heat from the… Read More →

Garlic Stir-fried Mushrooms

We are the in weekend-refrigerator cleaning mode and I had a big box of mushrooms that we had bought from Costco. When not in the mood to make anything elaborate I always fall… Read More →

Chana Masala

I grew up in India, Tanzania, and little of the Middle East at a time and generation before the advent of canned foods. Foods sealed in a tin were pretty much limited to… Read More →

Grilled Prawns and Saffron-mashed Potatoes

I had not met my closest friends in Washington DC since Christmas. Caught in the mundane aspects of life, time went by. Then my wife and I went to India for couple of… Read More →

Mom’s Cooking – Condiments

Chutneys and condiments vie with fish as the main dishes of a meal at our (my parent’s) house. At any given point there would be at least two or three pickles, Inji curry… Read More →

Chapati and Beans Thoran

Its been two years since I have posted anything on my blog. To be frank I didn’t even realize it. It’s not that I have not cooked anything in the last 24 months.… Read More →

Stir-fried Okra

Okra is one my favorite vegetables (I think botanically okra is a fruit.) I like okra so much that when I was in boarding school, my friend and I once nearly wiped out… Read More →

My India Trip – Festival Food

This trip to India was also when I spent Christmas with my parents, I guess in eight years?. ..maybe even longer.  We have always been a family of travelers, living at multiple locations… Read More →

White Potato Curry

This week has been extremely busy, and bittersweet in many ways. We bought our first home this Wednesday, and in a short while I will have my first kitchen!! (I have been constantly… Read More →

Mango Farina Bread

We have been going through our pantry to empty it out, and have been finding packets of dried beans, lentils, and cans of this and that. Among them was a can of mango… Read More →

Ginger Tamarind Paneer

I hardly cooked this week. Work and catching up with friends saw us eating out most of the last days. So I decided to cook something today, and clean out the refrigerator. We… Read More →

Puttu and Kadala Curry

I was going through the pantry this afternoon and I found the puttu maker that I had bought three years back when moving to the U.S. I had completely forgotten about it. The… Read More →