I have to admit, I’ve been saving this one for when I really had no time or motivation to make a full on recipe. This is mostly because I can’t tell you what it turned out like, as you don’t eat garam masala by itself. You use it in a…

I need to stop waiting until just before midnight to write these blogs. I’m so full and tired by the time I open up this screen that I can’t really be arsed to tell you about the process of making the food, when that’s literally why I started this project. …

Full disclosure, today I spent an inordinate amount of time watching Friends — so much so that I neglected: work seeing my grandma going to the shops …in that order. Which meant that I didn’t cook what I was planning to (Pork Vindaloo) because I was going to get the…

Tell me if this isn’t the most boring curry you’ve ever heard of? It sounded so boring, in fact, that I was going to skip it all together. But there was a reason I chose Green Peas Curry today. Today is the 41st anniversary of my grandfather’s passing (a grandfather…

TL;DR. Macaroons aren’t macarons. Did you know that?! I’m learning something new every day. Day Two: Coconut Macaroons Recipe by: Amy Moniz One thing I love about Goan recipes is aunties and uncles looooove to leave out key metrics like it’s a secret ingredient. “Bake until golden brown” this one…

When deciding which cookbook to work through, there was really only one option. Don’t get me wrong, as we were going through my nanna’s things, figuring out what we were keeping and what was to be donated, there were many, many South Asian cookbooks. Madhur Jaffrey, Anjum Anand, DISHOOM (I…

“Did you ever see the film Julie & Julia?” - the question I’ve asked approximately 36 people this week. If you haven’t, here’s the gist. Amy Adams plays an On-The-Cusp-Of-30-Year-Old woman called Julie who is at a crossroads in her life with very little direction. She decides to work her…