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Asha Bhosle | Cooking With Her & Sharing Her Chicken Keema Recipe!

March 26, 2013

Asha Bhosle is a legend. The legend cooked. I tasted her cooking. I learnt her recipes. I cooked for her. I heard her sing. I sat with her. I talked to her. And the above picture belongs exclusively to me! I did have the honour to spend almost a day with Asha Bhosle, the legendary […]

Bikol Express & The Romanticism Of The Mayon Volcano

November 27, 2012

Bikol Express is one of our favourite Filipino dish. I do not know whether it’s because of the amazing taste combining both the spicy taste of chilli and the smooth-sweet taste of coconut milk or whether it’s the stories that I have heard about the Mayon Volcano (below) looming over the horizon that must have […]

Crusted Paneer Potato with Kiwi Sauce

September 30, 2012

The last few posts of mine have been featuring food from practically every kitchen in Dubai excepting mine. No, there is no major construction and repair work going on in my kitchen. Neither have I stopped creating recipes. In-fact I have been clicking away and my blog-queue is longer than the post-summer immigration lines in […]

Bori Tarkari/Beans Curry & Maithili Art – Chitwan, Nepal

May 20, 2012

Though I don’t run my household in the manner of taking Geography lessons, but subconsciously our kitchen does turn into a lab. Probably I must have done a Geography Major in my previous birth. I believe in the concept of Reincarnation according to my own convenience. When I cannot explain any particular characteristic (bad or […]

Mango Lentil Soup/Aam Dal – The Summer Combat

April 29, 2012

Summer is slowly waltzing into Dubai. A few more days and suddenly the Celsius scale would be touching the 40s on a regular basis. I have spent so many summers in Dubai, yet the temperature in any random summer day still shocks me every time I know the exact magnitude of it. Conversations with other […]

Daal Maharani Befitting the Queen (And Also Us) From Yak & Yeti – Kathmandu, Nepal

April 25, 2012

Daal Maharani. Maharani denotes the queen. Can a name be more regal? Perhaps not. Previously, I had dragged the recipe of Sikarni Raan/Marinated Lamb Shank out of the kitchen of the hotel that we stayed in by the method of incessant persuasion. Not that the staff of the restaurant was any less courteous. But there […]

Easter Egg Curry Cooked By Easter Bunnies!

April 8, 2012

Easter is here. Springtime’s here. Time for the Z-SISTERS to get excited – it’s time for Bunnies to bring in the Chocolate eggs. I tell them that this time there’s going to be no Chocolate Easter eggs. The Easter bunnies have learnt to cook and they are going to bring in cooked eggs! ‘I want […]

Mashed Potato Bengali Style/ Aloo Bhaaté

April 4, 2012

Steamed in Rice or ‘Bhaaté’ In Bengali, mashed steamed vegetables are called ‘Bhaaté. The term literally means ‘In Rice’. It must have originated because very often these vegetables were traditionally steamed in the same pan in which the rice has been cooked. Mashing these steamed vegetables – assorted vegetables or any particular vegetable along with […]

Meydan Fireworks By The Walk in JBR & Yoghurt Aubergine

April 2, 2012

Sometimes you have all the time in the world to do things but you are stuck in such a situation that it doesn’t permit you to do anything. Except pump your heart faster and clog your brains. And then comes a lightening of ideas which require super-fast execution. Otherwise, both the moment and the idea […]