Category: foodie
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What joy when you start your day with the perfect tea! I suck at making my own tea. Everyday, something is amiss or in excess. So I made my own perfect tea today, with the right amount of adrak (ginger), sugar, milk and tea powder! yay! You have no idea how important it is to…
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So today around 12 PM baba declared that there would be no routine menu for lunch, but instead we will eat chicken Biryani. Of course I was to make, considering aai is not well and I have become the official non-veg cook of the house given the fact that aai is a vegetarian. So we had…
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Living with brother, the one thing in my life which changed a lot was ‘time I spent cooking’. Well in India, getting maids for cooking is handy and reliable too!So the previous 4 years habit of, when I was living on my own, working, studying and still finding out time to cook and eat healthy…
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Stumbling upon recipes while reading chic-lit is most serendipitous! The Indian summer in its full glory does sap you out of a desire to eat a proper meal. And even adding zingy salads, to the menu has not been helping me.While reading her book I came across a very desi (Indian) aaloo (potato) dish. I got…
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After almost 2 years I called up aai early in the morning and asked her for her recipe of Dhirda (marathi dosa). (Mom Special I)[clarification : I call up my folks everyday. Early morning calls are rare.]And I am going to share the recipe here!A little background. I was as usual alone over the weekend…
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Few days back I was staying with a pregnant friend as she was advised bed rest and needed some help in daily chores in the absence of her husband.I cooked a lot in those 3 days. Making breakfasts, lunches, dinners, tea/coffee/milk shakes and the likes. In between all the cooking friend continued giving her two…
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Since childhood we have had this tradition of meeting both sides of the family at least once an year. With baba’s side all being pretty elderly and now family sizes growing with cousins getting married, and everyone dispersing and settling down, the meets are now normally confined to big family functions like weddings. Otherwise normally…
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Nope its not maggi. Bummer ?It is the typical Maharahtrian pithla! When you trudge home every evening with that 5 kg back pack of yours and feel like eating something hot, tasty, filling, pithla comes in handy! Takes hardly 15-20 mins of time and is extremely delicious (if made the right way i.e.).And since cooking…
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Oh no no, this isnt a cooking post. My parents had promised me a graduation gift and I just received a box full of home-made goodies. Chiwda, laadoo, badam burfi (yeah Mother specializes in it!), paapdi, and few chutneys 😀 The greatest thing is, Aai made everything at home! (Well the usual sob stories of…
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I now officially have a thing against people who upload yummy food pics on Facebook. Its a horrible crime guys! Not because I cant have it, but because YOU have had it and now you are making fun of poor hungry people like me, who are munching on a milky-way and drinking 10th round of…