I heard the familiar sound of the garbage truck rounding the corner of our street, and sprung out of bed and ran to put out what we had. What a shock, it's not shorts weather in Kansas Dorothy! I wont complain though, there is still (even with all 2020 has thrown us) so much beauty [...]
This is a super simple cake recipe to do. Best part again is flexibility with what fruit or berries you have available at the moment or are shopping for. In my case, we eat a ton of apples so we always have apples in the fruit bowl. I'm using Ambrosia apples for this recipe, but [...]
I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again – I love salmon! One of my favorite fish to cook and eat! So tasty, it’s really hard to screw it up and there are so many ways to cook it - baked, broiled, pan fried, bbq (among others) and of course, my favorite - poached! [...]
Ridiculous!! This is a feel good treat. I categorized it as "Pantry Staples" because you can use really any type of fruit you have in the kitchen. The aroma while it bakes in the oven - the cinnamon and brown sugar topping - is what sells homes. So if you are a real estate agent, [...]
One of the first cookbooks my mum (a wonderful cook who could make anything tasty) gave me was Madhur Jaffrey’s “ A Taste of India”. It wasn’t the first book of hers that I read. Mum would by her cookbooks whenever she could. She used to tell me if you want to understand Indian cooking, [...]
This is a recipe from the Pondicherry region of India and is an adaptation of a recipe from Rick Stein, a brilliant British Chef. Pondicherry was a French base for 300 years. If you haven't heard of it, just watch the movie “The Life of Pi” for some stunning views of this place. It starts [...]
Mother's Day is approaching fast! We knew it would feel different this year with the loss of parents, but with the virus, it will be almost spooky. We always celebrated this day together with the all the mothers in the family. It was always a special meal where everyone (it was supposed to be just [...]
I've been cooking and baking and experimenting and blogging - and loving it, for the last 2 months. My waistline has benefited most from all of this. So time for something on the lighter side - in calories but not in taste. This is my minestrone soup recipe. Pantry staples of course and ideas for [...]
Apparently I have posted this a few weeks back... so don't read any further unless you are just tuning in for the first time. Although my first paragraph has been re-written. Too much time on my hands!! In my cooking classes, I quite often get asked for simple curry recipes. Quite honestly, a true Indian [...]
Pantry staples typically (in my house) include tins of salmon or tuna. These tins seem to last forever and typically move with you from home to home. They have unusually long expiry dates – hence the movement with you. I decided to use up some tins of salmon with a 2021 expiry date on them. [...]
