Crustless Double Chocolate Kahlua Cheesecake
Darkness can be illuminating. My moonless side embraces my guilty pleasures, without making me feel, well, guilty. It tells me that I am of this …
Recipes
Ghost Chilli-Rubbed Roast Beef
Who am I in terms of food? What do I cook and what do I like to eat? These questions bothered me plenty when I …
Mango Upside Down Cake With Lime Syrup
There’s no way you can escape Kama’s (the Hindu God of love) arrows wreathed in mango-blossoms. Stories of his hapless, lovestruck victims, which include gods, goddesses, …
Four Seed Bread
anding down chairs last week, I discovered exquisitely-grained wood beneath layers of paint and decided to keep them unpainted. I also chose to retain weather-beaten …
Savoury Whole Wheat And Rye Flour Muffins With Butternut Squash, Bacon And Feta
Grasses stand tall and cosmos congregate alongside our car, waving summer farewell. On the road, we drive past farm stalls beckoning us with their green …
Whole Wheat Focaccia With Cherry Tomato and Chorizo
Bread and wine, cheese and fruit, a picnic under the trees, bare feet, lush grass, eyes squinting at the sun, a slow and happy drowsiness …
South Indian Style Chicken Liver Pepper Fry
You can be a breast person or a leg-lover. A few may even be wingmen or women. But you can be sure nobody wants to …
Shepherd’s Pie With Rosemary-Scented Potatoes
I have a memory. A cold winter evening in a small town in Bihar, North India in the early 1980s, Mom, Dad and me sitting …
Chicken and Plantain Moqueca
Summer is early and the rains are reluctant. Chameleon-like, green plantains change colour in less than twelve hours as I think of ways to cook …
Coffee and Paprika Rubbed Grilled Chicken
Rain on the phone in another continent, leaks into my ear, a hypnotizing drip-drip slowly flooding my brain. Drowned memories float up. Striped paper boats …