Set an example with this coconut chicken curry cooked with curry leaves
A sublime meat and vegetable stew that can soothe the stomach on difficult days
Enjoy summertime madness with grilled chicken drumsticks steeped in fresh mint, coriander, lemon and yogurt
Thanks so much for your thoughts, wishes and patience while I have been away. It was hard to say a final farewell to mum, my hubby’s mommy and fellow passionate foodie.
She was a great lady - founder of the Peru Children’s Trust, mother of three crazy boys and devoted Christian. Also very funny.
My memories of [...]
Thwarted by the early summer we are having in London, I stayed out too long and missed the only thing worth watching this week on TV.
It was an investigation into India’s rise as a superpower and economic miracle on the one hand, while being mired in poverty on the other.
It was aired on the same [...]
It’s late. I’ve just got back from a bitch of a day at work involving a new client crisis, the biggest new business pitch EVER and two long meetings.
Changed into a retro nightgown (read: old, torn), I am now sipping vodka cranberry in our study. Our dinner is in the oven. Ready to bake breaded [...]
I have been temporarily distracted from the theme of cooking from cookbooks by a trip to visit my littlest sister at University of Warwick.
She is soon to be a bona fide Bollywood starlet with a coveted film role alongside some really great actors. I could name them, but then I’d have to come after you [...]
I found a lovely recipe for Pepper Chicken Curry on the blogosphere the other day - a lovely twist on a classic Indian chicken curry.
My hubby’s aunt and uncle were coming over for dinner so I decided to cook it for them. While the ingredients were really ordinary, I realised on my way home from [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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