I love cooking for my friends. I bake cakes, make chocolates, and cook some delicious schezwan panner or even the Chicken & Veggie Wrap that I learnt from my sister-in-law a couple of months back. Whatever suits my fancy, really. My school friends used to adore my Vegetable Cutlet Sandwich and Garlic Paneer Noodles. Recently, I made fish biriyani for my to-be-graduate college mates. It was Ma’s recipe and as
“Let me be the first to tell you, drinking alcohol is the worst thing to do in cold weather. Hot soup is the best because the process of digesting food helps to warm you up.” – Morgan Freeman A hot soup on a winter evening is simply comfort in a bowl. It warms every bit of you and makes you feel awfully good. Yummm! Be it a gooey creamy
“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.” – George Bernard Shaw My sister-in-law loves food and everything to do with food. Recently, she took up the massive challenge of maintaining a food blog. Soon, she was deeply engrossed in it and then, gradually all her experiments with food started to bloom– “How about I mash this up and then add a bit of that? I have
Fat makes you fat. It is as simple as that. So if you want to be fit, exercise regularly and maintain a balanced healthy diet. It’s true that maintaining a diet is tough and requires a lot of determination, but if you put your heart to it, you will manage. You will succeed. Fight your unhealthy cravings. Even if you slip, don’t give up the diet all together. A slip
Did you know that over 600 pasta shapes are produced around the world? Or that 2.75 million tons of pasta is made in Italy every year? Or that to cook one billion pounds of pasta, you would need 2,021,452,000 gallons of water – enough to fill nearly 75,000 Olympic-size swimming pools (one billion pounds of pasta is about 212,595 miles of 16-ounce packages of spaghetti stacked end-to-end – enough to
Who doesn’t love a rainbow? That magical moment when Tlaloc is being generous and yet the sun is peeking from behind the clouds, hop scotching and letting fall its warmth here and there – that exact moment, a jolly young rainbow is born. Rainbows had always fascinated me as a kid. It had that fairytale aura that I looked for in anything and everything then. That fascination – well, I
Ma’s ‘magic maggi’. I remember getting it to school for lunch almost every week and my friends would finish it off in less than 5 minutes. They loved my mother’s ‘magic maggi’. I did too. She fried it instead of simply boiling it. She gave a whole new dimension to it. Ma added eggs (a must), experimented with different veggies depending on the season of the year, sometimes threw in
“TO BE, OR NOT TO BE? THAT IS THE QUESTION- ” – William Shakespeare, Hamlet ( Act 3 scene i) Tweaking the above mentioned famous quote, in reference to our food fetishes, – ‘to eat, or not to eat? That is the question-’. A friend of mine recently lost 16 kilos (yes, you read that right) in about 3 and a half months. No fitness centre. No gym. She followed
When you want a sumptuous breakfast, that too under 150 bucks, where do you go? You go to Blue Sky Café. With burgers and grilled sandwiches priced in the range of 55 to 100, and mouth watering omelets, and yummy milkshakes with just the right amount of sugar – there seriously ain’t much to think about, is there? I breakfasted there on 10th of this month; had a Mushroom Chicken
The word ‘soup’ is derived from the French word ‘Soupe’. Soup is generally a liquid food, served warm or cold, usually as the first course or entrée, i.e., before the main meal. A ‘soup kitchen’ refers to a place which serves any prepared food to the homeless. Here, I have used the term merely to signify a kitchen where soup is cooked and served. My very first soup was