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Tandoori Aloo/Potatoes

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My experimentation with the Homdoor/Tandoor continues and this time I tried something a little unusual – baby red bliss potatoes!  Most people in the US either grill cuts of meat, fish or vegetables but in India (where a sizeable percentage of the population is vegetarian), we often grill cheese (Paneer) and sometimes even potatoes.  In fact grilled Paneer is...
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Summer Squash Pancakes with a Turkish Twist

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Over the past couple of weeks, we have had an unprecedented heat wave in the Washington DC Metro area (which has broken all previous records). Last week we were hit by a freak wind and thunderstorm which resulted in the loss of power to over two million households in the region. The Governor of Maryland declared a state of...
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Vegetarian Chili

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There are very few things my two kids agree on and food is the one thing they NEVER agree on. So my daughter prefers to eat vegetarian food and my son does not eat anything that doesn’t have some form of a dead animal in it. She loves any kind of dried beans and he has never put a...
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Daal Makhani

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India’s version of the classic combination of rice and beans is daal (lentils) and chaawal (rice).  It is the most plebian of meals and often metaphorically used to denote the bare minimum anyone needs to live. But, do not let the associations of a poor man’s meal fool you into thinking that this lowly pairing is lacking in taste....
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Artichoke Hearts stuffed with Gorgonzola Cheese

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I like artichokes but I am often too lazy to work with them because they take so much labor and such little food comes out of them – as an economist’s wife I have to say that the cost-benefit just doesn’t add up.  I end up using canned artichokes a lot more often than fresh ones (an all-time favorite...
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