Tender pieces of chicken cooked in a creamy spiced tomato sauce Butter Chicken or Murgh Makhani is a rich and creamy dish that's very popular in North India. The preparation starts with marinating the chicken with yogurt, spices, and ginger garlic paste. The marinated chicken is then grilled and combined with an aromatic creamy buttery sauce. Butter Chicken is on the menu at almost all Indian Restaurants, so chances are you've already had it at some point in your life. My issue with ...
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Smoky Sweet Potato Pattie
I am back! It has been ages since the last time I posted on the blog. A lot has changed, I became a mom to a sweet little girl. She has taken over my life and has filled it with a lot of joy. Motherhood has had its up and downs, but I am starting to get the hang of it and learning to balance. This blog is a passion of mine and I hope to continue finding time to share recipes with you all. These Smoky Sweet Potato Pattie were inspired by my husband. He is a complete carnivore and feeding him ...
Tandoori Chicken Tikka (easy summer dinner)
Tandoori Chicken Tikka is a popular North Indian dish consisting of succulent pieces of marinated chicken thighs that are skewered and then cooked in a tandoor. Chicken tikka is very easy to cook, it is healthy and makes for a perfect summer meal. What is a tandoor? Tandoor is a cylindrical shaped oven made of clay. Traditionally they are built into the ground with the top of the oven curving inward. Wood or charcoal is often used to build the fire at the bottom of the oven and the top of ...
30-minute Coconut Shrimp Curry
Food cravings are a funny thing. Some cravings are just sudden urges that come out of nowhere and if you don't give into it they will die out quickly. Then there are cravings that have you yearning for a particular food or dish that continues to consume you till you give into it. A month back I had one of those cravings for a coconut shrimp curry that I just couldn’t shake off. I searched the web for what seemed like hours for a coconut shrimp curry recipe that would satisfy my craving. My ...
How To Make The Best Guacamole
I am aware that there are probably a million guacamole recipes on the web all claiming to be the best, but I still feel obliged to share my personal guide on how to make the best guacamole. My guacamole is not fancy, just five simple ingredients, and some simple tips to achieve an authentic fool proof best guacamole. A good guacamole starts with perfectly ripe avocados. When buying avocados I always prefer to pick the slightly unripe avocados instead of the already perfectly ripened ones. I ...
Moroccan Roast pepper, Tomato, and Apple Salad
My first recipe that I cooked from the cookbook Arabesque by Claudia Roden is a Moroccan Roast pepper, Tomato, and Apple salad. In this post I will be sharing why I chose this recipe, the process of making the recipe, whether I liked the dish and if I would I would make this again. How and Why I chose this recipe: The Arabesque book is divided into recipes from 3 countries Morocco, Turkey, and Lebanon. The book features starters, mains and desserts from each country. The first country that is ...
Beautiful island of Kauai: Food Guide
I love traveling and discovering a new place. After graduating high school my parents gave me the wonderful opportunity to go to Europe and India for four months. It was one of the most memorable times in my life and since then I have gotten the traveling bug. The funny thing is as much as I love exploring the world I have never had the desire to visit Hawaii. I just assumed that Hawaii would be like any other tropical island, I was so wrong. Last year, my husband and I decided to take a ...
Cookbook club/Cookbook review #1
It’s happening! A few weeks back I promised that I would post more than just recipes on the blog and I am here to deliver on that promise. I will be doing my very first cookbook review/cookbook club for the month of May/June. I will be cooking three to four recipes from the selected cookbook of the month and posting it on the blog. In each featured recipe post I will talk about what I loved about the recipe, what worked, what didn’t, and how I might add my own twist to the dish. Last week, I ...
Lentil and vegetable stew (Sai Bhaji)
Creating content for this blog is fun most of the time. I love experimenting with recipes (the kitchen clean up afterwards not so much.), taking photos, and editing photos. The part about blogging that I dread the most is writing; sometimes I know exactly what to write and then there are times (95% of the time) I am staring at the computer screen with a blank stare. I am not a writer, my grammar is not the best, and a lot times I wish I could hire a ghost writer to write my post. Any writers out ...
Fenugreek Rice Pilaf (Methi Chawal)
I have been posting a lot of Indian recipes on the blog for a while now. It was unintentional at first as I was just sharing some of my favorite Indian dishes. Truthfully I don’t want this blog just to be about Indian food, but at the same time I do feel the need to share the array of traditional cuisines native to India. Most people who are not of Indian descent or have only tried Indian food in restaurants believe that Indian cuisine consist of just butter chicken, chicken tikka masala, saag ...