Food and cooking are about sharing and care. Cooking is a skill too. And there are no shortcuts to cooking food. —

Specifically, slices of boiled egg on slices of sourdough baguette. — This morning, Shruti (my wife) asked me how many eggs I wanted for breakfast (I wanted two). As a speciality, she sprinkles a concoction of spices — salt, pepper, red chili or cayenne powder, and chaat masala — on slices of hardboiled eggs. It leaves me licking my lips, fingers…

“Navdhanya Daal” more or less translates to “A Nine Lentil Curry” — Tryst at the grocery store. A couple of weeks ago I saw a packet of Navdhanya Mix — a mix of 9 varieties of lentils — on the shelf at my local Indian grocery store. I was not sure what I could make with it, but I knew that a pressure cooker will be involved.

Celebrating Millets! — We at CFH During WFH love millets! And we recently learned that the General Assembly of the United Nations quietly adopted and passed a resolution last year on March 5th, 2021, declaring 2023 as the International Year of Millets. Guess something good came out of 2021. Here is an excerpt…

I have been dreading this post 😅 The other day I got told off by Mom for steam-cooking okra. I got assigned a repeat cook — I did not realize that I was attending a remote culinary university. 👨‍🍳🎓 I am certainly learning new things 🙂 Specifically, this time I…

Baingan, aka Brinjal, aka Aubergine, aka Eggplant — They are all the same, with different names given by different origins. The French call them Aubergine. Americans chose to call them eggplant since the first variety they saw — white aubergines from France were looking like eggs, hence the name. Brinjal, guinea squash, melongene are few other names. …

A creamy soup with White button Mushrooms — Nature always nurtures us in innumerable ways. We just need to be wise to eat palatable foods, to help nature along in the process. Mushrooms are one such nurturing and palatable food product. However, with mushrooms, one needs to be a little cautious about their source. …

On Saturday, when I got up, the first thought in my head was, "What am I going to have for lunch?" — because we all get up late on weekends. I was feeling lazy, but I also wanted to treat myself. I contemplated the opportunity to have time to cook…

I generally buy fruits and vegetables in small quantities, so I can consume them while they’re still fresh. Recently, my cousins were visiting me and they brought along a dozen of apples. It was on the weekend, and we enjoyed having those apples while chatting for long hours until we…