This Egg and Potato Salad with Bengali flavours, cuts down all the heaviness and calories from mayo. Allowing it to sit for a couple of hours in the refrigerator, ensures that the salad absorbs all the flavours from the spices.
Archives for September 2015
Vaangi Bhath with Foxtail Millet
This dish, traditionally a rice & eggplant dish made using freshly ground spices, is made a little healthier by using Foxtail Millet. Also experimenting with an organic ready spice mix for Vangi Bhath here.
Super Moist Eggless Apple Cake Using Coconut Sugar
The perfect cake to kick off fall, or to use up apples – either way this Super Moist Eggless Apple Cake is the perfect tea cake, and reasonably healthy too. You’ll find a secret here to keeping it super moist despite not using eggs. Read on to find out 🙂
Spring Onion, Pumpkin and Lentil Soup
A simple, warm and comforting soup for the cooler evenings – made using spring onions, pumpkin and lentils
The Move: From Blogger to Cucumbertown
When I started my blog Saffron Trail in 2006, Blogger was the obvious choice. While I was aware of Wordpress, I found the former interface much simpler, easier to customize and I started blogging there. I’m a creature of habit, and I happily plonked myself on Blogger platform for 9+ years. Some 3 mo
Apple, Peanut Butter & Cheese Sandwich
This apple, peanut butter & cheddar sandwich is surely an upgrade from my undying love for the quintessential Bombay chutney toasted sandwich!
Veggie Salad With Passionfruit Dressing
When we were setting up our terrace kitchen garden 4 years ago, I was insistent on having a passion flower climber to grow around the railings. The way the graceful leaves hang over the deck and produce those stunningly showy red passion flowers, was what I had in mind. After some months, the sapli
Love food? Introducing BetterButter
“Food is our common ground, a universal experience.” – James Beard Nothing brings together people like food does. With this in mind, BetterButter was launched in August 2015, as a platform where people can share, showcase and search all kinds of recipes. Sukhmani Bedi and Niyaz Laiq, the people beh
Chickpea, Carrot & Cranberry Salad
I spent most of last week in my home city, Mumbai. Given a chance, the husband will take me out for breakfast, lunch and dinner. Bye bye waistline. But yes, I do give in sometimes, and love to eat at the places that are unique to the city, such as a chaat at my local bhelwala and breakfast at King
Recipe for a Fun Banana Chocolate Bread
Does the world really need another banana bread recipe? With a ton of banana bread recipes on the blog, okay make that half a dozen, I had decided a while ago not to post any more banana bread recipes on the blog. Remember those home grown bananas? Finally, the last batch did turn into an overripe l