My own Strawberry Cocoberry recipe

So one Sunday when I felt creative (read bored with nothing to do) I thought let me try making Yogurt ice cream. It turned out quite well and it tasted like Cocoberry 🙂 so here's my recipe 250 gms yogurt (I used homemade with double toned milk) 1 Small packet Amul fresh cream 250 gms…

Food for thought – 2

Here goes the next set of questions for you all to try sans search engine support:) This Hawaiian word, part of a famous 2-word brand name means "Priest, sorcerer, magician, wizard, minister, expert in any profession."A soda-cup bearing this brand name was first noticed in 1992, but it became indelibly associated with burgers after 1994.…

Risotto with smoked chicken and veggies – recipe

With risotto and me, it wasn't love at first bite. Of the three 'great' staples of Italian cuisine - pizza, pasta and risotto (yes I know there's antipasti, prosciutto, panini, lasagna and whatnot, but you know what I mean), risotto was the last one that I was introduced to. Growing up in Delhi, pizza was…

Recipe for a Perfect Evening

So, this is how it goes. Think of a style of cooking. Think of the main character – the meat or sometimes the veggie. For example, you could come up with Malwani and Fish. Or the other way around. Next step is to Google for recipes. After a few rounds you start getting a hang…

Why Food?

In the middle of a particularly assiduous day working from home this week and racing to meet a deadline that day, I caught myself grating heaps of fresh ginger and garlic to marinate two glistening pink, wild caught salmon steaks. I had been thinking of the salmon since morning, intermittently through my morning cup of…