Sometimes it is only a mental block that keeps me from trying recipe variations. For instance, I am so accustomed to dairy-based Indian dess...

The first edition of Blog Bites was fun for me, but before we get to the round-up of last month, here's the theme for the next round: ...

Thanks to everyone who played along in the guessing game at the end of my last post . There were several guesses along the lines of edible s...

As in many Indian kitchens, my kitchen is presided over by a large and noisy beast- my pressure cooker. If there is one appliance that will ...

Blog hopping in search of new and interesting rice cooker recipes, I stumbled on this  rice cooker ven pongal from Sukanya's blog. What...

Whew, that's a mouthful of a post title. But a tasty mouthful, I promise you. Over my decade-long stint as a home cook, there are s...

Sometimes, a little vegetable goes a long way. I bought a modest wedge of pumpkin last Saturday, and sweet and nutrition dense as it is, it ...

I was weighing the pros and cons of buying a rice cooker and did the sensible thing- I asked my wise readers to weigh in. My tiny kitchen sp...

"But is it blog-worthy?" This is a question that I seem to ask myself quite often. Some of my favorites never make it to these p...

All this month, until March 25, 2010, the first Blog Bites   challenge is to use your pressure cooker or rice cooker or slow cooker and ...

Monthly Blog Patrol , fondly known as MBP, was one of my favorite blog events. The idea was to choose a theme each month and make a recipe u...

In all seasons and every kind of weather, I need my dal-chawal (lentils-rice) fix every few days. The particular hunger for dal-chawal is ...