Food diary
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Prawn जाए पर वचन ना जाए – a recipe update that no one asked for
The lockdown has got me back to cooking and this weekend I finally decided to open up the bag of frozen prawns. Here’s the recipe: Begin with defrosting the prawns. You want to get the entire contents of the bag into some room temperature water and allow them tp thaw for 10-15 minutes. I only wanted to use half the packet of prawns, but these things were so tightly clumped up, that it made sense to go big than destroy…
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Talakaya butta – goat head recipe
Back when I used to visit my village as a little girl for dussehra celebrations, I remember all of the 8 families would come together to prepare and share a feast. Every family member contributed and nothing was let go as waste. It took me a long while to appreciate the no waste policy – blood, guts, brain, head, ears, tongue – all cooked in very specific ways to compliment the main ingredients texture and natural taste. Cooking with a…
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Desserts for breakfast are the jam – Travel diaries
Chocolate sticky rice with bananas and fresh watermelon juice for side. Perfect mornings are made with sweets.
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Summer bite – flaky ice crystals and refreshing lightness
Recipe: Watermelon granita with Rooh Afza. You need: 1 1/2 cups of a water, 3 spoons rooh afza syrup, juice of 1/2 a lemon, 2 spoons sugar and sprigs of fresh mint leaves. Stir it all in to blend well. Freeze inside a hollowed water melon o impart the water melon flavour, else blend in 1/2 cup of watermelon puree. To make: Pop this in the freezer, and occasionally scrape it up with a fork to form its granular to…
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Express recipe – rice kheer cheat
To make an instant bowl of rice kheer: Mix milk powder, cold milk (or water) and blend to thick consistency. Add some cooked rice (if you have rice boiled in milk, that works better). Voila, you have delicious kheer ready in just a few seconds. I used a mix of red and brown rice for this food experiment. Note : To further enhance taste, you can add coconut shavings, coconut cream or a dash of condensed milk. You…
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अंडा संतोषी – Breakfast today
#EggsForBreakfast
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The Food Lab
I have enjoyed making eggs the way chefs do for a while now. Sometimes even sticking in a meter to check the temperature or setting a timer 🙂 . The detail and science behind a perfect dish is worth the happy smiles. The Food Lab: Better Home Cooking Through Science – a New York Times bestseller, it seems to me is the the ultimate cook book to kick start 2016’s culinary experiments. I read from the reviews that the book features…
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Anglicismos and Hindi-cismos, linguistic similarities between Indian and Spanish language.
While there are many articles and resources online on the similarities and derivative words in Spanish from English. There isn’t much on the linguistic similarities between Indian and Spanish language. It is obvious though, that there are Sanskrit influences at play. Some Spanish words that you can easily pick up, if you know Hindi or Sanskrit are : Finding such linguistic connections/similarities is sometimes due to genuine linguistic influences, and quite often can also be an effort to…
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Icecream cloud – poem
Life is precious Make it simple But significant Let it float And melt sweet Like a Häagen-Dazs’ ice cream cloud