A thousand words…

…couldn’t begin to cover everything that’s gone on in my time away from this space. This place, where I’ve captured little snippets of our life and most of my culinary galvanization. I don’t use that word loosely. To get me into the kitchen these days takes inciting events. Events that cause transformation from culinary inertia [...]

A strawberry mystery

Blue cheese. Nutella. Lavender. Burrata. Habenero. This could be a list of things I’m crazy about. What it is, is a list of things Amey dislikes, with a healthy dose of disdain thrown in for good measure. Aside from his insidious proclivity to all things lime and my prodigious tendency to all things chilli, there [...]

Three killer desi omelets

Before chat rooms and MySpace, there were pen friends. Did you have one? I had several between the ages of nine and fourteen, who I wrote to diligently every month. We exchanged news and factoids on our country, school, what we read and where are lives were. Then life and school got hectic, took priority [...]

Not a fan of cupcakes

There I said it out loud. Did it make you gasp in disbelief? Allow me to explain. I agree they are endearing, cute even. One would need to have a heart of stone, nay, no heart at all, to resist their winsome twee appeal. Sure, eating them is good fun too. You have cake; you [...]

For the love of prawns

“Why do they get to have so many when we have so few?” “Because they don’t eat the paplet (pomfret), raja.” “It’s not our fault they don’t eat fish. Why are we being punished? We like the kolumbi (prawns) too” “Next time, I will ask for many, many more to be bought from the market. [...]

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