Last Saturday, I looked at my dinner plate and I felt “Damn, it should be illegal to eat this healthy on a Saturday night.” Yes it was so good that it was bad. And we were watching a brilliant brilliant series to add all the necessary wickedness and spice to this healthy plate. You may think food bl
Savoury sweet potato bake with a peanut crumb
Ideas lurk everywhere. The other day I was at my son’s classmate’s house after school as the kids wanted to play and I was hanging around in the kitchen with the parents, drinking tea and chatting up. The dad was preparing an early dinner and one of the dishes was a savoury starchy bake using potato
The secret to a two minute 100% homemade pasta sauce
Are you curious to know this secret? This has truly just 2 ingredients and is done in two minutes – and it will be your favourite pasta sauce recipe.
Crustless Quiche using homegrown Swiss Chard
Crustless Chard Quiche There’s something wonderful about quiches, they fit perfectly as a meal for any time of the day – be it breakfast, lunch or dinner. The only thing that probably deters people from making this is the mess (well, a little) of making and blind baking the crust and the quantity of
Raw banana (plantain) kababs
Vazhakka or plantain is one of my favourite vegetables. There are at least three favourite ways I make this in true Tambrahm style. One is a roast, where it is sliced thinly and slow roasted until it turns crispy. The other way to make it is to cube it, cook it and saute it with whole red chillies,
Lasagna Verde with roasted vegetables and tomato-mushroom sauce
If there is one country I want to visit, it is Italy. For its wine, its food and the culture. La Cucina Italiana…I find beauty in this food. The vibrant colours, flavours that burst in your mouth tantalizing your taste buds, the freshness of simple ingredients like a raw tomato, fresh mozzarella c
Roasted Pumpkin Soup with flavours of Lemongrass and Ginger
We’re not yet fully into winter and yet early morning temperatures are hitting lows of 15C. Bangalore, how I love thee for this. With this soup I made for my son and me a couple of nights ago, I have hit upon another perfectly warming soup recipe for the winter evenings. The lemongrass keeps it fres
Farfelle Aglio Olio with celery leaves and crumbled paneer
A minimalistic Aglio Olio dish flavoured with celery leaves, with a sprinkling of homemade cheese. A quick and easy dinner!
Dry capsicum subzi / Bell pepper curry
Whoa, it is a month into 2011 and I have already fallen back on my resolution to make 2011 the year with maximum posts on the blog. However, I must share with you the menu for the year end dinner I hosted for friends, a completely vegetarian Lebanese Menu. Details and links to the recipes here. Most
Spinach Peanut Pesto Pasta
No basil, no pine nuts, and still want to make pesto? This spinach-peanut pesto is just the recipe for you. Prepare this in advance and freeze for a quick 10 minute dinner.
Whole wheat penne in spinach sauce
Whole wheat penne in spinach sauce – a good way to eat up those greens, more so for your kids 🙂 A quick and easy one pot dinner too!
An unusual pizza for lunch
Yesterday was one of those days, when I was famished for lunch and the only thing ready was the cauliflower-potato curry made in the morning. Besides this, there was some thin crust pizza base languishing in the fridge since last Saturday, and there was the hummus that I had made a couple of days ag