Baby Food – Pumpkin puree

The Fact: Believe it or not – Pumpkins are fruits! Pumpkin is a member of the gourd family, just like cucumbers, gherkins and melons. Baby Age: You can feed your baby avocado mash as soon as you introduce your baby to […]

Baby Food – Avocado puree

The Fact: Avocados are one of nature’s perfect foods because they are said to contain everything a person needs to survive. Baby Age: You can feed your baby avocado mash as soon as you introduce your baby to solids or […]

Easy Caramel Custard

This one’s hands down, one of the simplest, can’t-go-wrong desserts! It’s simple, basic, uses 4 everyday ingredients and goes down well on hot summer days or cool winter afternoons. Give it a go if you’ve got time on your hand! […]

Chicken/Beef Cutlets

A perfect crust and a warm mushy inside, pan fried in 3 minutes… for those days when you need a break from the kitchen! “Your veal cutlet gets up off the plate, It walks down to end of the counter and […]

Rajasthani Laal Maans

A fiery Rajasthani lamb/mutton curry borrowed from the traditional kitchens of the maharajas, cooked with spices and a burst of red chillies. ‘Lip-smacking’ would be an understatement!   “Mutton is to lamb what a millionaire uncle is to his poverty-stricken […]

A Couple of Cream Cheese Frostings

I use cream cheese in everything I possibly can—salads, bakes, frostings, pie fillings, sides, dips … you name it. I can even eat it plain, right out the tub while watching my everyday episode of Breaking Bad. And so, I’m thrilled […]

Chicken Cafreal

Chicken in red and brown curries is the norm; a green gravy, though not a recent discovery, is a refreshing change. This recipe blends some local spices to bring together a lovely Portuguese dish that’s loved and respected along the […]

Classic French Toast

Sometimes, it’s the simplest things that are the hardest to do! Think about it—whipping up an egg until the peaks are stiff, making an omelette and flipping it perfectly, kneading the dough… And so, it occurred to me to dedicate […]

Carrot Cake

My all-time favourite cake!  It’s best eaten warm in any weather. It’s rich, moist, full or flavour, and is the prettiest cake I’ve ever seen!   “If carrots got you drunk, rabbits would be pretty messed up.” – Mitch Hedberg The […]

That Perfect Rum-Oozing Christmas Fruitcake!

The perfectly moist, heavenly, rum-packed Christmas fruitcake! You have to try it to believe it! 🙂   The Fact: Fruitcake was often put into ancient Egyptian tombs because it was thought the preserved food would not spoil on the journey to the […]

Banoffee Pie

Make this one out of love for the name of the dessert, if not the banana-toffee combination 🙂   “Q. Ever wondered where the phrase “to go bananas” came from? A. Why try when banana pancakes, choco-banana cakes, banana splits, […]

Patoyos, Patoleos or Patoddios

Yummy rice pancakes steamed with a coconut and jaggery filling… perfect for just about any time of any day, but specially eaten on the 15th August—the feast of the Assumption, which coincides with India’s Independence Day!   “Happy Independence Day! […]

The Perfect Pie Crust/Short-Crust Pastry

The perfect pie crust is golden brown when baked, buttery, soft and flaky, and practically melts in your mouth when you bite into it. Can you taste it already?   “Only very clever men can bite pie without breaking crust.” […]

Sausage Potato Quiche

The quiche has always been one of those fascinating kitchen creations that has an exotic appeal with a sprinkling of humility. I’m not sure whether it’s the many variations of the dish, its humble beginnings in Germany and France, its […]

Mango Milkshake

Summer is gorgeous—it’s pretty, it’s colourful, it’s vacation time, it’s hot (not always a good thing—ask the 42°C outside), it’s time for fun clothes, and in my part of the world, it’s also mango time! And though winter will always […]

Baked Fish in Lemon Garlic Butter Sauce

Happy Easter and welcome back! So, this Easter, while I decided to send all my readers on that delicious roast chicken chase, I decided to go fish. And what a lovely dish it turned out to be!   “A fishnet […]

Better Buttermilk

I swear by butter and cream and milk too; buttermilk was new and certainly was a welcome change!   “I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.” – Woody Allen The Fact: To get the amount […]

No Bratwurst, No Switzerland

There cannot be a sausage tastier than this … not until another sausage proves me wrong!   “Laws are like sausages, it is better not to see them being made.” – Otto von Bismarck The Fact: In 320 AD, because of […]

Banana Pound Cake

Not everybody loves bananas the way I do. I eat them plain, slice them for crepe filling, mash them in pancakes, whisk them in milkshakes, fry them as fritters, and as the title says, bake them in heavenly, moist, pound […]

Apple Pie

I believe in kicking off the winter with this crunchy-crusted, warm, moist, and totally droolable apple pie. And so should you!   “If you want to make an apple pie from scratch, you must first create the Universe.” – Eugene […]

Red Velvet Cake

Some find a little bit of heaven in their red velvet cake; others think it’s overrated. My thoughts—I love red. I love cake. So, why not?   “You’re only human. You live once and life is wonderful, so eat the damn […]

Goan Chouriço Chilli Fry

A must-try Goan delicacy if you’re headed to Goa, India, for a holiday!   “To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.” – Otto von Bismarck The Fact: Sausages were called bangers during […]

Panna cotta

The quickest, sophisticated-looking, and by far, the easiest dessert recipe I’ve ever known…   “In the 1960s, you could eat anything you wanted, and there was no talk about fat and anything like that, and butter and cream were rife. […]

Lemon Pepper Chicken

Grilled chicken cooked with the combined fragrance and flavour of freshly ground black pepper and freshly squeezed lemon… hmmmm…   “The disparity between a restaurant’s price and food quality rises in direct proportion to the size of the pepper mill.” […]

Chocolate & Sautéed Banana Crepes

Speaking of comfort foods, who’d have thought that decadent chocolate and a fruit wrapped inside a soft crêpe would be my new favourite dessert… breakfast item… comfort food…?   “In a big family the first child is kind of like the […]

Pepper Chicken Noodles

Noodles. Pepper. Chicken. What more can I ask for on a pleasant, laid-back Sunday afternoon?   “Noodles? I can’t eat noodles; there’s too many of them. No matter how hungry I am, 1000 of anything is too many.” – Mitch Hedberg […]

Roast Chicken

There’s nothing better than a piping hot, straight from the oven, moist, tender, gloriously golden-brown, aroma-filled roast chicken on a bed of roasted veggies!   “A hen is only an egg’s way of making another egg.” – Samuel Butler The Fact: […]