There comes a point in your life when you decide to change your diet in some way for health or social reasons. It could be as small as drinking more water or as big as cutting out gluten completely. Either way it feels like you’re venturing off the beaten path. That suddenly you have to
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Do you have recipes that you eat like maybe once a year but when you do it’s because you have an intense craving for it? This recipe is like that for me. I think I’ve had it a total of 4 times in my life. And it’s really not my recipe. It’s Sonia’s husband’s. And
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Let me start out by giving a TMI alert. This post is going to talk about tummy trouble and a classic south Indian dish which soothes it. So if you are sitting with food, reading this post, you have been warned! Now this holiday season was bad for me. I started out with diarrhea (Yes,
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I have a problem. I like to experiment with my guests. I really do. It’s odd and probably really unnerving for my dinner guests. I mean can you imagine being the guinea pig? Before you get all sweet and nice on me and say – “Raj – I would love to be invited to your
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Alright, it’s winter! What?! But it’s ONLY October!! Yeah – I was surprised too to get up this morning to one inch of snow on my little car. As I look outside now the snow-hail is still bouncing off the windows.. and the mountains around me are cloaked in a pure white bed sheet. It’s
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I love tried and tested, one-off recipes… which are different and once you’ve discovered them, you have a winner every time you make it! The Vegetable Tava Fry is one such recipe. I discovered this spice mix, about 8 years back at a friends place and all credit for this recipe goes to her… Yes
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