Category Archives: RECIPES

South-Indian Spiced Cream of Tomato Soup

Most people in America associate Indian food with either tandoori meats or spicy curries. They are familiar with just one kind of Indian food and don’t realize that there is immense regional variation in flavors and ingredients. I find that except a handful of Indian restaurants in the US, most have very limited flavor profiles – thereby they tend...
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Easy-Peasy Thai Red Curry

If you like spicy Thai food, you will love this red curry.  It is such a quick and easy recipe to follow and it tastes as good as any I have had in Thai restaurants.  It is very flavorful, quite healthy (since it has lots of veggies, low fat boneless chicken and very little oil). I know some people...
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Baby Corn and Onion Wasabi Tempura

I have no story to go with how I thought of making this dish…it literally just came to me. I love Wasabi Peas (buy them regularly because they are a great snack and the added bonus is that they clear up my sinuses) and I love baby corn (if we eat out at Thai or Chinese restaurants, my kids...
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Homemade Brioche Rolls

Anyone who knows me knows that I am not a baker.  I can cook but I clearly can’t bake. Not only am I not a baker, I am literally afraid of taking on any project that requires any baking.  So one day while I was driving my son to soccer practice (and yes, being a typical teenager, car rides...
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Pork Dumplings/Momos

Chinese immigrants have carried their cuisine to all parts of the world and over the years a lot of their dishes have gotten morphed to suit the local taste/palate and as a result some of the dishes that we eat in restaurants in the western hemisphere do not even exist in China! But dumplings are a standard appetizer at...
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