Introduction to Okra A very dear friend, who really should have known better, asked me for an okra recipe, because I'm the greatest bhindi (or okra) lover she knows, she says. She's having guests over next weekend and rashly decided to make bhindi (aka okra) and recklessly appealed to me for a suitable…
Please read Gas Toast - Part 1 first. This is the easy part of the recipe. I kid you not. Completely true. We're getting into the really hard part of the recipe. Equipment: Gas - If you don't have a gas line and a stove that uses the gas coming from the gas line,…
Gas Toast - The Preamble It has been a while since I wrote a recipe. Now, I know, I know, you still haven't got over the fact that it took you 890 words to get to the actual chicken kebab recipe and it is 2 hours of your life you won't get back.…
Yes, I've been lax. I've been busy working on things. What? Oh, editing The Play ( still nameless, after all these days ). As well as The Play ( still nameless ), I also made major headway in anchoring The Memoirs, ( not nameless at all. On the contrary has rather too many…
I haven't given you a recipe in a while. I haven't give you a story in a while. I haven't given you a rant.. uh, well, ok, it hasn't been that long since I put up a rant. Anyway, here is a recipe, an honest to goodness recipe. But first! Pre-Prep Buy bananas.…
Ok, I think this blog could do with a bump in readership. Now food, recipes and kitty cats improve the stats but I don't like cats (What? You had no idea? Hmmm ... you must be new around here.) So here are some simple recipes. I cannot promise you that these sandwiches are…
So the question asked is this "Do round rotis taste better than non-round ones?". And that is an interesting, very interesting, question. It brings to the fore many concepts that we possibly take for granted, but perhaps should review more often. So let's take a look at the question and break it down.…
It’s Thursday and time for some more work with mirrors and and smoke, maybe some steam. For steam is healthy they say. You have saunas where your toxins become toxouts and steam irons where the wrinkles in your clothes become more becoming creases. Remember to (more…)
Introductions may be in order since I have at least 1 reader in 3 different continents.
So. An eggplant is called
Baingan – Hindi
Begun – Bengali
Brinjal – most of India
Aubergine – elsewhere in the world
Eggplant – in North America
Melanzana – Italian and hence
Mad Apple – in old English (more…)
Recipes are easy, following them is hard. I, therefore, don't follow them too closely. The important thing is to understand the concept and apply a dash of spices, a soupcon of common sense, lashings of common culinary capability, keep it low and experiment, experiment, experiment. In other recipes that I have posted, I…