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As people who love good food, don’t we all struggle to keep our weight down? Diets work, but only to a point- you might lose weight, but the moment you reach your target weight, temptation to binge takes over, and before you know it, you slide back to your original weight. What we really need…
Namkeen Gosht – This delicacy from the cuisine of Quetta, Baluchistan as well as other areas of NWFP including Peshawar, is made either during Eid-ul-Azha (Badi Eid) or for special family functions. My attempts to find the origin of this very elusive dish were quite painful. During the course of…
[Rated: 3.0/5] Alice Louise Waters, hailed as the Mother of American cuisine is the pioneer behind “Californian cuisine”. This style of cuisine thrives on the concept of fusion food, prepared out of local produce. California Pizza Kitchen is based on this concept. In India, CPK operates 6 franchi…
[Rated: 2.5/5] The proof, they say, of a good pudding is in its eating. And that of a promising place is how it makes you feel on a difficult of day like Monday, when we headed out to check the newest member of the flourishing watering hole club in suburban Mumbai – Loca Loca in…
[Rated: 3.0/5] It was a balmy afternoon, when I reached for a meal that was explained to me as “It may not fit your foodie palate, but it surely can be a pleasant change.” Was it a change? I have to admit – a rather surprising one at that. The idea of Delight was driven…
[Rated: 2.5/5] Think Madhuban and an imagery of a lush green forest is what the mind conjures up. The last thing I would have associated Madhuban with was food from the south of India. Being a South Indian it isn’t very often that I visit restaurants that serve south Indian cuisine. Madhuban – Sa…
The hottest and sexiest Indian Michelin star Chef Vikas Khanna unveiled his new book, ‘Khanna Sutra’ at Shangri-La’s Eros Hotel in New Delhi. Vikas is known as a versatile and humble judge on MasterChef India and is the owner of award winning restaurant ‘Junoon’ in New York, USA. Renowned fashion…
Natasha Ramarathnam shares her recipe of the Sweet potato croquettes with us. This is what Natasha had to say ” I keep buying sweet potatoes for the health benefits, and since I got fed up of having the same thing over and over again, got a recipe from the net. Definitely making it again. The…
Here is another one of Uma Prem Kumar’s family favorite recipe of Egg Makhani. Eggs can be substituted with Paneer, Potatoes or Chicken Ingredients: Eggs – 12 Oil –2 tbsp Cumin/ Jeera – ½ tsp Onion – 2 big yellow onions [red ones make the gravy darker], Chopped Ginger – 1’’ chopped Garlic – 3 clo…
Katy Farokh shares her recipe of Gujrati dal with her special “only a mom can do” trick to get her son to eat spinach – Spinach Dhokli Here is the recipe: DAAL Toor dal 500 gms Ginger 1 tbsp Tomato 1 cubed Peanuts 50 gms Drumsticks 2 cut into small sticks Pressure cook dal for…
Nihari is a popular meat dish of Pakistan, Bangladesh and among Muslims in India. Its roots lie in the Muslim Nawab kitchens, having achieved fame via the storied royal kitchens of Lucknow in present-day Uttar Pradesh, long the seat of the Nawab of Avadh though it is also relished by non-Muslim f…
The first thing that comes to mind of on hearing Bengali savouries is this amazing mutton dish – Kosha Mangsho. Pritha Sen, a known expert in Bengali cuisines, graciously shares her recipe. Marination: 1 kg meat, 3 Tbsp curd, 3 Tbsp Onion Paste, 1 heaped ginger paste, 1Tbsp Garlic paste, 3 Tsp Tu…
