Category Archives: RECIPES

Indian Style Smoked Eggplant with Goat Cheese

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Recently I joined an interesting group of food bloggers.  Most of them are trained chefs and have had long involvements with the hospitality/food industry and quite a few of them have very established food blogs with a large steady readership. Compared to them, I am a complete newbie in the blogosphere. Each of them has his/her niche area –...
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Maple Syrup Infused Green Tomato Chutney

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This year my veggie patch didn’t seem to have produced much. The drought that hit much of the US, also hit my backyard. I tried my best to water the saplings but even then they didn’t grow well and the produce was quite feeble. In past years I have at least managed to get a lot of tomatoes and...
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Yellow Daal with Tadka

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I'm sure that the Indians among my regular readers are going to think that I am losing my marbles because I am putting up the recipe for a dish as simple as Daal Fry.  It does seem similar to someone putting up a recipe for boiled eggs (although I did once see Martha Stewart devote quite some time of...
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Mediterranean Meatballs

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I hope purists of Moroccan or Greek cuisine don’t jump on my case for daring to put up this unorthodox recipe. It is entirely my own creation and I merely drew inspiration from the flavors of the Mediterranean region. I know that Moroccans have a tradition of making tagine dishes with meatballs in them but I just made this...
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Homemade Oven-Baked Naans

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About four months ago, I got a ceramic tandoor from a company called Homdoor. They sent me the new model of their backyard tandoor to test. I must say that this tandoor has changed my life. My husband and I are die-hard grillers – we grill even when there are a few feet of snow on our back patio. ...
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