Roasted Pumpkin & Mushroom Soup

Wednesday, 1 May 2013 , 12:38 | Category : Food, Starters, Vegetarian
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To be honest, this is not my invention. I just love soups – they’re such a life saver! Just keep them in the refrigerator and heat them up whenever hunger strikes especially you’re too lazy to make something from scratch. It’s healthy and guilt free, you can keep making new concoctions every other week and store it in the fridge. For summers, try the soup chilled and fill your tummy!

Just like every story has been told so far, most of the recipes [More...]

Consolation Prize Winner – Makki Atta Vada (Corn Flour Dumplings)

Sunday, 10 March 2013 , 16:40 | Category : Food, Starters, Vegetarian
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Here’s one of the consolation prize winning recipes – the very innovative recipe made with ‘Makki ka Atta’, sent in by Santosh Bangar a senior citizen, a lawyer by profession and a food blogger. 

Apart from being innovative, this recipe requires only a few ingredients and is a perfect savoury for winter evening snacks especially in cities like Delhi.

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Spinach Fritters

Sunday, 8 January 2012 , 10:04 | Category : Food, Starters, Vegetarian
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Popeye loves spinach. It is the only ‘legitimate’ way to convince your child to eat the green leafy vegetable which is so rich in iron! The moment Popeye pops a can of spinach you see his scrawny muscles balloon up. Iloved that…especially how he would always find a can of spinach in the most remote of the places be it sea or the desert.

Well, we don’t have to go too far for a bunch of spinach. Thankfully it is readily [More...]

Cheesy Mushroom on Toast

Monday, 2 January 2012 , 2:18 | Category : Food, Starters, Vegetarian
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This is an interesting way to have the usual breakfast or a snack. It’s healthy, appetizing and filling and a hot favourite amongst kids.

Cheese is a rich source of calcium and Vitamin B, while mushrooms are rich in potassium, Vitamin B, Niacin, Riboflavin and anti-oxidants. So you can very well imagine, how healthy a snack it can be! So the next time you’re hungry, you know exactly what to snack [More...]

Bengali Style Brinjal Fry

Being a Bengali is not easy at times. We have to live up to the reputation of knowing Rabindra Sangeet by heart, be great connoisseurs of foodand of course, the politics that runs through our blood. As a probashi Bangali or a non-resident Bengali, we’re a slightly different breed! While we’re deeply rooted in our Bengali culture of music, food and politics, we have the art of balancing it wherever we may [More...]

Minty Peppercorn Potatoes

Monday, 15 August 2011 , 4:42 | Category : Starters, Vegetarian
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Clinical Psychologist, freelance writer for Femina.in and an Expert Member of  International Association of Holistic Psychology, Prachi Saxena Vaish is very fond of cooking and trying new recipes in her spare time. She shares an original recipe that she prepared especially for our [More...]

Shammi Kebabs

Wednesday, 3 August 2011 , 4:34 | Category : Food, Non-Vegetarian, Starters
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Dr. Shabana Saleem, shares yet another non-vegetarian delicacy with us. Try it out today and tell us what you think! [More...]

Pumpkin Flower Fritters

Tuesday, 24 May 2011 , 7:18 | Category : Food, Starters, Vegetarian
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The pumpkin flower in Bengali is known as Kumro (pumpkin) phool (flower) and boy, does it make up for one of the most prized delicacies from Bengal. I had a golden opportunity to grow pumpkin in my kitchen garden and feasted on some garden fresh kumro phooley’r bhaja. Who would have thought that I would relish such a rare delicacy from Bengal in one of the southernmost state of India in [More...]