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Vietnamese Garden Rolls

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I prefer the taste of foods that are not overly cooked and heavy tasting (yes, I know I know – all Indian food is overcooked and heavy tasting but in my defense, I do have to say that I don’t cook it often and those that have followed this blog over its progression in the past few months, know...
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Pepper Steak with Cognac Sauce

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I spent the first 25 years of my life in India where eating beef was a major no-no! When I came to the US to attend graduate school, it took me a couple of years before I felt comfortable eating beef. It was not that I was religious or that I followed anything of the Hindu tradition, somehow it...
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Fried Cauliflower with Roasted Garlic Sweet and Sour Sauce

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A few days ago, I attended the Varli Food Festival (http://www.varlifoodfestival.com/) in NYC.  This turned out to be a bigger gig than I had original envisioned from the Varli website. The tickets for the festival were sold out in advance and the crowds were immense.  It seemed like an Indian-foodie’s equivalent of the Oscars ceremony. The PR campaign by...
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South-Indian Spiced Cream of Tomato Soup

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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

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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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