If you like making pizza at home and want a quick method that doesn’t include fussing with pizza dough, this is a great recipe to try. I first met Chitra from The ABCD’s of Cooking in the winter of last year at a food blogger potluck. Since then, we’ve become good friends, and I’ve become [...]
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Salted Lassi
It’s finally May and all I want to do these days is make cold blended drinks. So I’ve been wearing out my blender and recently made a wonderful frothy beverage I first posted over 3 years ago: salted lassis. Here is a newly revised recipe for this unexpectedly refreshing drink. A few years ago, when [...]
Chicken Korma
My neighborhood in Brooklyn is home to tons of good restaurants, but one of the things it lacks is a good Indian restaurant. There are many nights when I come home craving a hearty plate of lamb rojan josh or saag paneer, but quickly realize that I’d have to trek back out to Manhattan in [...]
Chicken Tikka Masala
On nights when I’m not recipe-testing for the cookbook, I crave at least one of the following: a) sushi, b) pizza, or c) Indian food. Good versions of first two are easy to find in my Brooklyn neighborhood, but the third is, sadly, lacking. I don’t live anywhere close to Jackson Heights, Murray Hill, or [...]
Kashmiri Chai
There are many things about the US that I started missing immediately after arrival in China: unrestricted internet, entertaining TV, concept of “personal space”, the use of bleach and other disinfectants in public restrooms, just to name a few. Then there are the foodstuffs that, after months of searching, I came to realize are simply [...]
Chicken Lollipops
Despite my pledge to eat healthier, I’m still on an Indian-Chinese food kick this week. Following up my fried Gobi Manchurian, I decided to make fried chicken lollipops. A good excuse would be that this is a handy appetizer to know in case I ever host a last-minute party. Since chicken is one of two [...]
Gobi Manchurian – Indian-Chinese Cauliflower Fritters
I was first introduced to Indian Chinese food a few years ago in Hong Kong, at a restaurant in Tsim Sha Tsui whose name now escapes me. My first thought was, “This is Chinese food?” My second thought was, “How ironic.” The cuisine of China, brought over to India by Chinese immigrants many generations ago [...]
Mango and Cardamom Lassi + Coconut and Lime Lassi
The first days of spring usually means two things: time to stuff the winter clothes away, and the start of many months of extensive blender use. Sure, during the winter I break out the blender now and then, for ginger tea, homemade almond milk, and all that good stuff. But when the sun is beating [...]
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