‘Food for Thought’ Archives
Sindhi Food: Sai Bhaji
At a friend’s request, I’ll cover a few Sindhi recipes beginning with Sai Bhaji—a favourite spinach preparation in Sindhi families. Sai in Sindhi means green and Bhaji is vegetable so the dish is simply a green vegetable…but not all green vegetables are called Sai [Read More]
Homemade Fajitas
While I like all kinds of food, I keep trying to introduce small changes in flavours of regular subzis or offer us all some creative and healthy main course food options that keep the 3 of us interested in food at home. Kishore and I are foodies to begin with so enjoy [Read More]
Homemade Muesli
Twice a month I toast muesli for Kishore’s breakfast. It takes about an hour to put together and the stock lasts him about 2 weeks. Before I began making this muesli about 2 years ago, Kishore had tried various cereal mixes and used to mostly favour the one marketed by [Read More]
Colourful Khichri
This Khichri is based on the recipe of Sindhi Makhni Dal. I’ve grown up on this Makhni Dal that uses only yellow moong dal and it’s called Makhni not because it has butter but that it emulates butter. Sindhis enjoy eating this Makhni Dal with pooris over breakfast but [Read More]
Apple Crumble
With this recipe, I’m beginning the process of archiving my signature dishes as also those experiments that I’ve based on Net-based recipes and I’d like to remember them. I’d got the initial recipe of this Crumble from my OTG (Over-Toaster-Grill) recipe book. It’s [Read More]
A Night in Nizamuddin – Nov 1 – 7 pm
Interesting to have found a group of foodies in the form of http://eoid.org/ and even though joining them every weekend isn’t going to be possible for us from Gurgaon, we do plan to experience the Nizamuddin food journey with them tomorrow. More details at [Read More]