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Easy Chilli Paneer
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Easy Chilli Paneer
 It is intensely cold in Edmonton, as I write, and all I can think of is hot, comforting street food from India. I decided to put a call out on Facebook, asking people what they would like to see next on here, a spicy chilli paneer or beef biriyani and the winner was the chilli paneer. I'll ...
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The Most Amazing Butter Chicken Recipe (The Only Recipe You Will Need)
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The Most Amazing Butter Chicken Recipe (The Only Recipe You Will Need)
 This is the only butter chicken recipe you'll need. Yes, I know that it is a strong claim to make, but seriously, I have been working on perfecting this recipe for over five years now, and I finally think I have nailed it. I used many references when working on this recipe. I started workin...
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Pulled Turkey Vindaloo
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Pulled Turkey Vindaloo
There is nothing like the heat of a vindaloo to take you straight to the beaches of Goa. One of my favourite memories of Goa is heading down there with all my friends and eating deliciously spicy food right on the beach. The heat of the food, with spiced rum and port wines that Goa is known f...
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Tehari-Style Kofta Biriyani
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Tehari-Style Kofta Biriyani
Last week as I was browsing through Facebook, I came across my old school friend Heena's picture and post about this delicious Bangladeshi-style tehari biriyani. Being a biriyani fiend myself, I had to beg Heena for a recipe, and she shared a YouTube video on the making of the recipe, and I was i...
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Sharbat Stories
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Before we get to the sharbat part, the stories need to be told.I've always spoken fondly about our summer vacations in our grandparents' home in the village. The village is about a couple hours give or take from my home town, and used to be a quiet, sleepy place that only came alive during it's a...
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Prawn Sukka (Spiced Coconut Prawns)
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One of the few regrets in my life is that I never had the opportunity to cook with my grandparents. My paternal grandfather passed away before I was born. My paternal grandmother was in the USA for a lot of my life, and though she is still alive today, she is not good shape right now, being all o...
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Baingan Dal (Charred Eggplant with Lentils)
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Baingan Dal (Charred Eggplant with Lentils)
I will not talk about isolation. I will not talk about isolation. I will not talk about isolation. I will not talk about isolation. I will not talk about isolation.Dang it, I did. And it's all because of them lentils. Other people hoard toilet paper. Apparently, I hoard lentils. It's the Ind...
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Moroccan-Style Spiced Ground Beef and Lentil Stew
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Moroccan-Style Spiced Ground Beef and Lentil Stew
I just realised that after almost twelve years, this blog took a mighty long break for a while. It has been the best of years, and the worst of years, but we have survived them, reasonably healthy, reasonably happy, and reasonably whole. I've been busy, raising a really active and full on three y...
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Spicy Turkish Okra Sauté and Robyn Eckhardt's Istanbul and Beyond (+ A Signed Copy Giveaway)
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Spicy Turkish Okra Sauté and Robyn Eckhardt's Istanbul and Beyond (+ A Signed Copy Giveaway)
A Quick Announcement: Robyn Eckhardt, the author of the book 'Istanbul and Beyond' that I am giving away here, will be in Montreal on Saturday, April 14, 2 PM at Appetite for Books, to talk about the book and sign copies. This is her first appearance in Canada and I would love my friends and...
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Indian Classics - Aloo Gobi
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This week actually marks the tenth anniversary of this blog. However, somewhere along the way, in the past year and a half, I seem to have lost my way a little. My pregnancy with Baby Sky wasn't the greatest, and all I wanted to do was sleep, as opposed to cook or eat, or feed anyone else, for th...
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Classic Chicken Biriyani and A Visit To Sunworks Farm
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Classic Chicken Biriyani and A Visit To Sunworks Farm
What came first, the biriyani or the chickens? I have never been squeamish about knowing where my meat comes from. My grandfather and uncles made sure of that, and I have killed chickens and watched pigs being slaughtered and methodically broken down to be distributed among family and friend...
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Introduce Baby to Spice - 10 Easy, Delicious and Unusual Recipes
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Introduce Baby to Spice - 10 Easy, Delicious and Unusual Recipes
There is so much advice out there on weaning babies, and every generation has its own rules and regulations. These rules might be always changing (the advice on feeding babies peanuts, for example), but when it comes to babies, I've always held by my mother-in-law's advice that mommy knows best. ...
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Tales From India: 10 Tips For Driving In India
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You stop for the exhibitionists. Ah, the joys of driving in India. Once upon a time, I had no compunction jumping in and out of buses, sometimes even when they were moving. In fact, I spent half my life on the City Bus Number 5, first going to school, then pre-university, then college. Bus stops ...
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"Are you the nanny?"
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"Are you the nanny?"
"Are you the nanny?" If I had a dollar for every time I was asked this question when I was out with Adz, well... I'd be about twelve dollars richer (yes, I keep count.) I understand, I really do, that it can be a bit jarring to see a white child with a brown person, though in this day and ag...
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