Shrikand

What happens when you crave  Shrikand and you know it is a dish you cant have right away? I love shrikand and grew up walking down to Prashant hotel in Belgaum when I was about 12 and sitting there savoring my puris and Shrikand. At that time, it was new dish introduced to us. My [...]

Candied Lemon Peel

Sunday With Marlena Spieler
Citrus and sugar, what can go wrong. Our friends Dennis &  Mary shared with us their  bounty of Meyer lemons from their garden. There is nothing quite like using produce so fresh and well cared for. We made ginger lemon concentrate with the juice and the peel was used to make Marlena’s [...]

New York Egg Cream

Sunday with Marlena Spieler
When the three of us were divvying up recipes and we got this recipe, we wondered if we would enjoy the recipe as we assumed that there would be eggs in the recipe. We are not big fans of eggs in a beverage. The title is deceiving. Marlena says in her book [...]

Citrus Sponge Cake

Sundays With Marlena Spieler
Here’s to Wonderful New Year ahead, with good health and happiness !
We welcomed the year amongst good friends and family with loads of food, fun and laughter. Our contribution was this cake.This Pesach cake dates back the 13th century, it is Kosher, rich and festive. We baked this to take to a [...]

Coconut Pandan Custard

This is a recipe by Carolyn Kumpe of EBRS. Carolyn taught this recipe when we did a Thai cooking class together. There were 21 students in class and absolute fun! After the class was over and we sat down to eat, I had the dessert first. It was a spoonful of heaven..really very delicate and [...]

Sauteed Plantains

Growing up, this simple sauteed plantains or Steamed plantains was a after school snack that mom would make for this. During my last trip to India, I had amma make both of them on the same day. At the Co-Op, our original plan was to just make steamed plantains and when we had extra plantains, [...]

Pistachio Burfi

When Rajesh & I were newly weds, he would look at me like I was crazy when I would narrate incidents of what dishes I ate on a certain day, when I was 10 at so & so’s house. I can remember what amma cooked for me on special occasions. Pista burfi is one such [...]

Kufli Made Easy

A slice of heaven in my mouth, an elegant dance of flavors, that is how I feel with every spoonful of kulfi.You can tell now, what it does to me
As a child, I would beg my parents for the road side Kulfi only to be vehemently refused. So I decided try this [...]

Designer Oatmeal?

Who says you cant dress up an ugly duckling? I was from the school that oat meal was meant for horses and should stay that way, until I decided to use my imagination. I should say the ugly duckling looks pretty. All of you who staunchly believe that you wont ever touch oatmeal, try this [...]

Steamed Nenthram Pazham – Steamed Plantain

My mom learnt this from our neighbor, Mrs. Varghese. They had this for breakfast and shared it with us. I was a baby then and have no memories of it. But it became a regular in our home when my mom could get a hold of nenthram pazham. When we went to India this time, [...]

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