Quick Indian Cooking » My blogerati http://www.quickindiancooking.com Fast and easy ways to spice up your life with Mallika Basu Thu, 15 May 2008 20:53:21 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 en Too Many Cookbooks http://www.quickindiancooking.com/2006/10/03/too-many-cookbooks/ http://www.quickindiancooking.com/2006/10/03/too-many-cookbooks/#comments Tue, 03 Oct 2006 12:17:45 +0000 Mallika http://www.quickindiancooking.com/2006/10/03/too-many-cookbooks/ img_8531.jpgThe week started with a bang - a 72-megabyte email some idiot tried to send me crashed my inbox and semi-paralysed my work day.

Sitting at home in my sheep chic pyjamas after the day’s drama, I needed inspiration for our dinner. I had a pack of frozen chicken and half a pot of sun dried tomato to work with. Nice!

I know, I know, you’re wondering why the hell I don’t make a curry. Sorry to disappoint my adoring fans (all six of you, including mother) but just because I extoll the virtues of Indian cooking doesn’t mean I never eat anything else. Food is all about variety and I want it all.

There is a problem though. When I don’t fancy eating Indian food I find I have too many cookbooks and not enough recipes.

I’m kinda feeling the pain of seasoned blogger Heidi Swanson, who got sick and tired of buying cookbooks and decided to actually start using them instead.
As my chicken defrosts, I’ll just have to trawl through Jamie, Nigella, Delia and whatever else I can find sitting on the shelves.

]]> http://www.quickindiancooking.com/2006/10/03/too-many-cookbooks/feed/ easyindiancooking.com http://www.quickindiancooking.com/2006/09/30/easyindiancookingcom/ http://www.quickindiancooking.com/2006/09/30/easyindiancookingcom/#comments Sat, 30 Sep 2006 08:32:37 +0000 Mallika http://www.quickindiancooking.com/2006/09/30/easyindiancookingcom/ Could it be true? Have some evil trolls stollen a march on me by stealing the only good idea I have ever had in my life? Hubby alerted me to a website dangerously named easyindiancooking.com.
Not so fast, honeys

On closer inspection, easyindiancooking.com was not the same curry proposition. It offers South Indian recipes. I embrace all of Mother India. It promises easy dishes that take a few minutes to make. I… well pretty much the same. It gives you the an Indian e-cookbook for $9.95. I offer my recipes that have been carefully perfected over years of tears, tantrums. burnt fingers and smelly hair for the grand sum of nothing.

Not quite my nemesis then…

]]> http://www.quickindiancooking.com/2006/09/30/easyindiancookingcom/feed/ From Vietnam etc with Love http://www.quickindiancooking.com/2006/09/29/from-vietnam-and-with-love/ http://www.quickindiancooking.com/2006/09/29/from-vietnam-and-with-love/#comments Fri, 29 Sep 2006 08:54:00 +0000 Mallika http://www.quickindiancooking.com/2006/09/29/from-vietnam-and-with-love/ I sense it’s time to draw the shutters on the Indian cooking lessons and trawl through the web for bloginspiration. My current favourite, added to the quickindiancooking honorary blogroll yesterday, is noodlepie.com - a blog about the trials, tribulations and trials of Vietnamese street food (and a lot else besides). This guy is funny on most days - no ordinary feat let me tell the blog virgins among you.

Anyway he’s moved to France and will soon be blogging about all things French food. Bring it on I say…

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