Tomato, Mozzarella, and Basil salad Several weeks ago, a young couple came over for dinner at short notice. They were in the area, and t...

Right now, there are four types of tomatoes on the kitchen counter. There are tiny cherry tomatoes, colorful heirlooms and no-name cooking t...

Good local tomatoes are starting to come into the market now, and while the heirlooms and other colorful ones are excellent for using raw, t...

I have been making versions of this dessert for a long time now. It is a simple and classic combination of a cake or cookie base, strawberr...

and other stories, including eggs on eggs There are a few women that I would like to adopt as my aunts have adopted as my aunts, but they j...

Is there such a thing as 'too easy'? One of my grandfather's friends has a small mango canning and preservation enterprise. They...

Sweet and sour eggplants in creamy nut sauce I said a big hurrah recently because it seems like 'baby eggplants' season has started ...

Some people have a sweet tooth. I think I have several. I was never one to say no to anything sweet, and it runs in the family, so it wasn...

In all these years, I can hardly recall having made 'cutlets'. I am referring to the very Indian 'vegetable cutlets', which ...

pAlak BaTATA BhAjI In Maharashtrian cooking, there is a not so uncommon practice of adding potatoes to anything, that sometimes drives me nu...

It is about that time of the year when I start scouring my bookmarks, links, notes, and cookbooks for ideas to use lemon zest, lemon juice,...

I have a niece who is lactose intolerant, and drinks soy milk everyday. So whenever she visits, I make sure soy milk is well stocked at home...

is possible! These days, it is fairly easy to find almost any kind of Indian food here in the United States - a lot of Indian vegetables, sp...

Slightly Light Version Ina Garten's recipe for Apple Cake "Tatin" is just perfection. A scoop of vanilla ice cream on the sid...

Vermicelli Pudding During a recent pantry raid, I found a small jar of shevaya, also called semiya or sevia (in Hindi, Gujarati). These are ...

We bonded over blogs online, and vicinity brought us together, but it was because of their dispositions that I enjoyed being with them, meet...

Just a little dal, and some spices For over a year now, I had been working on a project that kept me more busy that ever, with little time t...

and chocolate! It had been a while since I baked. Even longer since I baked a cake. Truth be told, I couldn't even recall how many month...

They came, they wrote, they vanished. That is the story of many a blogger. Understandably so, as most of us don't blog for a living, but...

If I said that I have been busy for the last few months, that would be quite an understatement. The blog was started and nurtured in calmer ...