I was inspired to cook by my Late Grandmother Mrs. Magdalene Aranha when I was barely 6 years old. I spent a lot of enjoyable days in her kitchen, smelling & tasting & sometimes helping prepare the food being cooked. This blog is dedicated to my Nana Maggie.
I've lived in 4 countries and 15 cities, so I cook with a variety of influences and ingredients and that reflects in this blog.
I LOVE Choriz Pulao. The best ones I have ever had, are at O'Coqueiro and Martin's Corner in Goa. Every trip to Goa by me or my family would mean a nice little (...)
For our entire friend circle, Nandini in Bangalore is iconic for its Andhra Chilli Chicken served with Andhra Chicken Biryani. The biryani itself is quite (...)
This is the first recipe that I cooked from The Food Trail of Punjab. Mr Yashbir Sharma says that this is the original Chawla's recipe for Cream Chicken.The (...)
For our entire friend circle, Nandini in Bangalore is iconic for its Andhra Chilli Chicken served with Andhra Chicken Biryani. The biryani itself is quite (...)
Pork Indad is a traditional Manglorean dish and used to be served at any celebration - weddings, Christenings, Christmas. Among the Pork dishes cooked and (...)
Radish (Mooli) is not a vegetable that used to be cooked in our house, I'm not even sure if it was indigenous to Mangalore or not. But its consumed in large (...)
Hyderabadi chicken biryani recipe itc kitchens of india
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I love the food at most of ITC's restaurants, I have also tried their ready to eat Dal Bukhara which was quite good and the Mirch Ka Saalan which was ok.So (...)
At the IITF where I was hunting for Shaans Memoni Mutton Biriyani mix, I first saw this other Pakistani stall named Laziza. I had never heard of them before, (...)
In recognition of Eid, I felt like cooking mutton liver. A dish that a friends mother had cooked for me a couple of years ago when we were invited to iftaar (...)
Goan feijoada - pork and beans stew with vegan option
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The Last batch of Joao's sausages that I bought and turned into a Choriz Fry, weren't very good (Joao's buys their sausages from various suppliers and then (...)
This is the simplest of all the choriz recipes that I know. My mum often made this at home and served it as a side with rice and dhal.My friend David, used to (...)
Delicacy in Guwahati was my favourite Assamese restaurant for simple home style food. Their pork fry and pork patot diya (baked in banana leaves) were my (...)
Khichdi is a light and simple dish, often cooked at my husbands house when lunch has been too heavy or someone at home is sick. Its great food for someone down (...)
When reviewing Banu Hajratwala's - Gujarati Kitchen, I decided to cook Chaap Ne Bataka Roast - Roasted Lamb Chops with Potatoes. To make this, I needed 3 tbsp (...)
I've tried a lot of Chicken Cafreal recipes from different cookbooks and websites, but none of them has come close to matching the awesome preparation at (...)
Ever since I saw Chef Vikas Khanna's "Savour Mumbai - A Culinary Journey Through India's Melting Pot" at a bookshop, I've been itching to cook from it. My copy (...)
Jhol is a thin Bengali curry. Mangshor is mutton (goat meat, lamb can be used as a substitute if goat isn't available).In my singleton days in 1999-2000, I had (...)
The trick to making Kolhapuri Chicken Curry is in having a good quality Dry Kolhapuri Masala. However, this is difficult to source outside of Maharashtra, but (...)
The Bedouin (desert gypsies - would be the closest translation) who live in the deserts of Egypt and around have a special blend of herbs that they use to make (...)
Squid/Calamari is one of our favourite sea food items. For the last few years, I have only been able to buy it already chopped into rings. So when I saw fresh (...)
Mutton chops kerala style from flavours of the spice coast
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I roughly followed Mrs K M Mathew's Recipe from Flavours of the Spice Coast. I had earlier tried Chicken Piralen from the same book. While her book is (...)
This is another recipe from my friend who gave me the recipe for the Nepali Potato KebabsIts one of the easier Biryani recipes that I have come across and is (...)
Before we left Guwahati, we invited a whole lot of my husbands colleagues over for dinner, around 40 of them. As usual, I cooked everything from scratch and (...)
