December 28, 2006 – 10:35 am
Did you all have good Christmases? Mine had all the makings of a traditional festive session - drunkenness, senility and a verbal catfight. And lots and lots of eating, of course.
Having finally settled back into work and realised the true meaning of the second box of chocolate bicuits I consumed - I am now thinking hard [...]
December 24, 2006 – 6:53 am
Normally for Christmas I have all of my hubby’s family over and do a full turkey dinner, complete with all the trimmings and mulled wine. But this year aunt Maggie (or Madge) bravely volunteered to have it in her country house by the river in South East England.
Not having a Christmas dinner to cook [...]
December 22, 2006 – 11:16 am
I don’t know about you, but I’m not coping very well with the cold weather. Despite my 11 years in England, I just can’t bring myself to do very much in winter. All the festive revelries are only perpetuating the problem.
The time is right for a stodgy, warming and simple meal of dhal and rice. [...]
December 18, 2006 – 11:04 am
Shami kebabs are nibbles just made for party snacking. And as it’s that time of the year, when we ditch our size zero diets and eat like pigs on speed what better than a super easy, super moreish kebab to tempt our overactive tastebuds?
I learnt how to make these on my recent trip to India. [...]
December 17, 2006 – 3:25 am
A few weeks ago, Shari who writes from Japan raised the very pertinent issue of missing ingredients when cooking Indian. No matter how close you live to an Indian spice stocked shop, there are bound to be occasions when you can’t find a certain masala or when you have run out and can’t make [...]
December 15, 2006 – 10:48 am
The first recipe back has to start with prawns. I overdosed on prawns in India. We ate them grilled on the tandoor, curried and even cooked in dhal!
My recipe is for prawns cooked the Goan way. Goa needs no introduction for ravers, beach lovers and sun seekers. But for food lovers everywhere Goan grub is [...]
December 12, 2006 – 7:48 am
… on my wonderful trip back home to Kolkata, India. I did very little, but still managed to stay terribly busy throughout flitting between hair/beauty appointments, lunch/dinner invitations and my sister’s engagement. My photographer hubby also dragged me along to all sorts of bizarre photographic adventures, involving trips to weird places at the wee hours of [...]
