Month: February 2014

Gluten-Free Sticky Toffee Pudding

Gluten-Free Sticky Toffee Pudding

A gluten-free sticky toffee pudding is also dairy-free, making this an allergy-friendly remake of this traditional English dessert, full of all the favorite flavors and textures that you love.

Gujarati Dal

Gujarati Dal is a regional adaptation of traditional Indian lentils and is influenced by an area whose trademark cuisine is vegetarian that combines the sweet and savory.

Tandoori Chicken

Remember how I mentioned that I bought a whole chicken and couldn’t remember what I had planned to make with it?  Well, it hit me (two days later, but still).  Tandoori Chicken.

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Bengali Shrimp

Bengali Shrimp

Bengali shrimp with potatoes is a delicious, high protein dish with southeast Asian flavors, done in thirty minutes or less.

Chaval Kheer

Chaval Kheer, also known as Payasam (in the south) or Payesh (in the east) is richly spiced rice pudding eaten throughout India.

Sweet Chutney

Today’s bite isn’t really a meal. It’s part of a meal. Or to go alongside a meal. Today we’re making a sweet chutney.  

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Lamb Rogan Josh

Lamb Rogan Josh is Rogan Josh is an Indian curry characterized by a thick, delicious red sauce with delicate meat, originating in Persia – literally translating as cooking in an oil-based sauce with high heat.

Chocolate Chai Truffles

Chocolate Chai Truffles

Rich dark chocolate chai infused truffles, made from scratch and perfect for Valentine’s Day.

Cham-Cham

Little Miss Muffet, sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey…

Curds and whey.  That’s what I have for you today. Well, the curds.  (And what is a tuffet anyway?) Cham-cham, more specifically.

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Tomato Begun

Today’s dish, Tomato Begun, is the Bangladeshi version of a “just home from work, nothing cooked, feeling hungry, and the eggplant needs to be dealt with now” dinner.  It’s easy, healthy, clean, fast and tasty. In short, the perfect meal for Friday night.