Update your kitchen this Diwali

Updating a kitchen can be expensive. However, the kitchen is typically one of the busiest rooms during the holidays.

Ras Malai : Tempting and Mouth-watering (58th Serv)

Indian sweets and desserts are well known worldwide and are very tempting and mouth-watering. Be it the scorching summer heat or chilling winter, Indian desserts are too difficult to resist and are certainly not to be missed. There are a large variety of Indian desserts, ranging from the delicious 'kheer' and 'laddoos' to mouth-watering 'gajar halwa' and 'barfi' to 'Ras Malai'.

Madhur Jaffrey's Curry Easy

Indian cooking tends to be complex and slow, requiring many ingredients. Attempts to simplify or even 'Westernise' Indian food have spawned a generation of wannabe TC stars and attendant books, often of highly variable reliablility.

Contrast this with the recipes of Madhur Jaffrey. She has written numerous books and 'Curry Easy' might therefore sound like a dumpling down of classic Jaffrey for the 20-minute cooking market. Not so. This is classic Jaffrey, only better.

As she clarifies in the introduction, it has taken her decades to realize that some classic recipes can in fact be simplified, or ingredients substituted, with little discernable difference to the result.

Alluring Afghani Dishes : Kababs, Qorma and Mantu - 1

Dear Women Of House!!

Spices like saffron and pepper and cooking methods of Pashtuns, Tajiks and Uzbeks define the Afghani Cuisine.

Salad : Always Healthy (57th Serv)

Dear Women of the House!!

Surely vegetable salad is always healthy...or is it?

A lot of people are becoming health conscious already. They prefer to prepare their own food to make sure they are eating just healthy foods.

Aloo Paratha : Recipes You Can Use (56th Serv)

Potato is everyone's favorite. This aloo paratha is filling and tasty and when eaten with pickles and curds it tastes even better. A must try for Aloo Paratha!!

A Chance Encounter With a Tattooed Dude

I was selling some stuff online, putting some ads up on craigslist, and so I’ve been trying to get the people to come here and buy the stuff. Sometimes they flake at the last second, or you’re expecting them and they never show up. 

This one guy was interested in a guitar I had. At first his email seemed like spam, because he said he was interested in it but then he said to text him. Not call or email, which usually means spam. Anyway, I texted him, and he called, and so he came over.