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...]
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.
Santosh shares her recipe with our readers in her own [More...]
The Lifestyle Portal thanks Chef Shwetambari Pandit of Foodwhizz Cookery School, Mumbai for taking out time to pick the winning recipes in our Recipe Contest. We also thank our sponsors Short Circuit and Urban Kala for believing in us and making this competition more special with their super cool prizes.
The ’Banana Flower curry with lentil dumplings’ recipe won the first prize for ‘its innovation and yet a smooth taste on the palate.’ – as pointed out by Chef Shwetambari.
Here’s the winning [More...]
A healthy practice started by her mother when she was barely nine years old, led Archana Doshi be one of the most successful and popular food bloggers in the country today.
Not only that her food blog Archana’s Kitchen has been the lucky one to be featured in Google India’s first television campaign!
A BSc in Computer Science, Mathematics and Statistics, Archana has worked for almost six years in the software field, many years as a yoga teacher and now for the last [More...]
How about digging your teeth into some wonderfully wholesome bread that’s been made with thoughtful ingredients. Every day we learn something new. Today we learn the art of infusing healthy and fresh ingredients into the first meal of the day – the bread.
Meet Vanaja Arvind, an IT professional who’s a Masters in Information Science with nearly 30 years experience in the field. She has travelled and lived across several western countries where bread is a staple food.
A born and practicing [More...]
This is a popular Bengali side dish that is usually had along with a daal-rice combination. It’s very easy to make and very healthy too. My mother makes this quite often and is quite a favourite among all of us. Sheem (Hyacinth bean) is a very popular vegetable that is had across most parts of the country. I had learnt a Punjabi style Sheem recipe from Chef Harpal’s show ‘Turban Tadka’ on Food Food, but I’m yet to try it. Until then, [More...]
This is yet another wonderful recipe that I learnt from Chef Chinu, the host of ‘Firangi Tadka’ in the popular ‘Food Food’ television channel dedicated to food lovers like me!
What I like about this show is that she demystifies fancy cooking making it approachable in an Indian kitchen. She makes international cuisines doable. While I enjoy watching the program ‘Vicky Goes Veg’ on NDTV Good Times, the only thing is that, at times the chef host uses some really fancy [More...]
One of our readers Santosh Bangar shares a very unique recipe with us. Santosh runs a very successful food blog – Santosh’s Kitchen which is worth checking out. She surfs through various food blogs and experiments with all kinds of cuisines. This one is her recent [More...]
Pumpkin is a favourite choice for a Sunday morning breakfast for most Bengalis. Well, it used to be and still is in certain households. While cornflakes and oats have taken over the Indianbreakfast options, a Sunday binge is a welcome change. You must be wondering, pumpkin…breakfast…favourite? Well, yes and I will tell you how and why. This Bengali style stir-fry Pumpkin and Potatoes goes well with luchi (puris) or parathas for a leisurely Sunday brunch. It is very easy to make [More...]
One of the most popular accompaniments that can be had with daal and rice, is often made in most Bengali and Bihari households. Bottle gourd or lauki as we all know is an excellent vegetable with cooling properties. After a partyhangover if you have a light lauki curry made the Bengali way along with rice, it is very soothing to the system. We know what all can be made with lauki, koftas, curries – the works. But have you tried having the [More...]
