I love cooking Indian food, especially when the aromas start to infuse…wow… you just have to be here to smell it all. Fridays used to be my take it easy day when to comes to cooking, toasted cheese sarmies with slap chips on the site and lunch was ready. Recently my father keeps having a … Continue reading Workers curry

My mother has given up meat for over a year and a half and she eats almost anything I give her. Be it, soya mince, baked beans, any soya products, potatoes, sugar beans, dhal, lentil…however there is one thing she will not eat no matter how many times I make it. Drum roll please, that … Continue reading Red Kidney bean curry

Paneer is considered to be the Indian cheese of the world. Being Indian, you would assume that we love and only eat paneer??? WRONG. We seldom eat it, it will never be found in the fridge or anywhere in our house. Whenever I tell my father I am going to make a dish with paneer, … Continue reading Chilli paneer

I am a carnivore by heart. Every now and then I crave a bunch of roasted vegetables and I seem to be the only one in the house hold that craves this. My parents refuse to go anywhere it and if I dish it up on their plate, they just push it one side. Parents … Continue reading Roasted root vegetable

Growing up, making a baked potatoe in the microwave was like magic. The baked potatoe, smothered in butter and drowned in cheese has become a staple and go to quick meal when the hunger pains don’t allow you to whip up something else. I have never tried to make baked potatoes any other way, other … Continue reading Easy peasy spuds

Baked beans in our household is a staple. Every other Friday you can rest assure that there will be baked beans and fried chips on the table. Baked beans also signifies the end of a fasting period, the meal that shows to the world that we are literally just holding out till the fast ends … Continue reading Baked beans

The Past Sunday night, the entire world literally prepared themselves for the premier of the finale season of Game Of Thrones. I jumped on the bandwagon and decided to do the same. Which was not a very clever idea, now that I think about it. Actually I was not thinking at all! During my varsity … Continue reading Champ

We are not huge sweet potatoe fans. That being said, whenever I see a sweet potatoe, I just have to buy them be in the raw vegetable or the recently new thing called sweet potatoe air fried chips. I never eat them though, they just chill in the cupboard and then eventually it just disappears … Continue reading High five stuffed sweet potatoes

Every once in a while, I let my mother decide what she wants to eat. To tell you the truth, I have planned what the menu is already a month in advance but she snuggles up to me and says you know what she wishes for to eat tomorrow and if I have everything in … Continue reading Jeera aloo

In our household the only way we make cabbage is the braised Indian way. There is no other way and it always the white cabbage never the purple one. I was watching My Kitchen rules Season 2 when I saw Maj, one of the contestants make a red cabbage dish. I can’t exactly remember what … Continue reading Braised red cabbage