Food - Fresh Beginning

Making of a Gajar Halwa (Carrot halwa)

Gajar halwa or Carrot halwa is a carrot-based sweet dessert pudding from the Indian subcontinent. It is usually server in weddings and restaurants as a choice food for dessert. It's tasty, delicious, sweet (duh!) and full of dry-fruits. Just like any other food which is just incredibly awesome, I had

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Making of Upama (Or Uppit)

Upama is a favorite and famous dish in Maharashtra (An Indian state). I still remember having it for breakfast or an evening snack when I was a kid. However, as I started living away from home, there were scarce instances where I would get a home-made Upama. Obviously, you can

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Making of a Dabeli

Dabeli is a favorite Indian snack. It comes from the state of Gujarat where it originated and mainly eaten. Although just like many Indian foods it has also spread in other parts of India. I had first tried Dabeli when I was 15 years old, but not much thereafter especially

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Making of a Veg Manchurian - Part 2

It's been a while since I wrote my last post since I had been busy with the Spanish lessons for a while. But nevertheless, I am back and with another experience of cooking one more delicious dish I love Vegetable Manchurian. It was my favorite snack in childhood. I remember

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Chicken 65

There are many stories about the name of this dish how it got the name Chicken 65. But for the sake of this post, I won't go to any of those details. I will briefly explain my experience of preparing this dish (Which was done last week). It was on

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A favorite Indian snack - Samosa

Samosa is one of the most delicious and famous Indian snacks. If you go to an Indian restaurant, you will definitely see it in the menu for starters. I personally like it a lot that every time I go out for a dinner in Indian restaurants, this is on my

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A delicious Malai Kofta

Malai kofta - Isn't name enough to make your mouth start salivating? I never knew what malai kofta is since it never was in my personal menu when I used to go to Indian restaurants as a kid. However, when I hear a lot from my non-Indian friends, they mention

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A delightful Thai basil chicken fried rice

There is one place that comes to my mind when someone says Thai Basil Fried rice. And that is one and only Basil Restaurant in Columbus. I used to go there frequently just to try their amazing Thai basil fried rice. Yummy! As years passed, I stopped going there and

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A silky palak paneer

When I was a kid unlike rest of the people, Palak Paneer was my favorite dish. It translates as "paneer + spinach" in English. Every time I would go to the hotel, everyone would order some non-veg dish, but my heart would always to go the palak paneer. This

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Cooking - Making a Matar Paneer

This week I made a resolution of preparing 10 Indian dishes. This is something I am doing as a challenge to myself to get into preparing tricky delicacies. I will mostly be working on Indian dishes since that is where I seem to have more grasp on. Besides, I am

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A Mumbai Street Food - Vada Pav

Can't believe it's been 8 months since I made the Batata Vada at home. (Also called as a potato pattice in english if you may). Batata Vada is miraculously famous and spicy staple food in India - Especially Mumbai. People will need no reason to have it for any time

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A Food after long long time

It's been a long time since I actually put my heart while making a food. Call it an effect of place where I stayed or people I lived with in last 6 months. After moving into my new place, looks like I have a newfound respect for my life and

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Onion Pakodas on rainy day

Yesterday I got time to cook after very long time. Last week me and my friends, we went on the New England trip. You can read more about this trip on New England trip on Independence day weekend. Having spent last week sleepless and in haste, I hardly got any

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Dahi Wada - One more time

Am I running out of food choice? or inspiration to try new food items? Looks like yes. I see myself making a cycle of food items which I made 6 months earlier. Anyways, making Dahi wada today was extremely impulse decision. I kept reading The hard thing about hard things

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Vegetable Manchurian

After so many months since last time I made vegetable Manchurian, Friday was another day to try it out one more time. You might have read my Previous post on Vegetable Manchurian. This is not going to be different. But I will still add new pictures. Thanks to How to

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Donuts

I love Donuts. I mean I do. They are soft, sweet, full of sugary dripping around them. They are real popular in India as well as United States. People buy them. I have seen people buying them for carpool rides, colleagues, friends and family members. There is not really special

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Sabudana Wada

This weekend I decided to again make a Sabudana Wada. Last time I made it long time ago. Now I had only few Sabudanas left in the home. I brought potatoes and already had accompanying spices. Making Sabudana wada is not a big deal. Getting good batter consistency is the

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Red Thai Curry

I know those times when I used to go to Basil on Short North. It happened first time when my manager took me to Basil for lunch in the first week I started working for DuetHealth. I liked the food and since my manager paid the bill I never felt

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Chocolate Truffles

Before I write this post, let me confess something. When I made truffles few months back I decided never to go with sweets recipes such as truffles, cakes, cookies and pies. However, recently I found a reason which motivated me to go back this path. It's amazing how one person

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Banana Pie - Retake 3

Thank god, after 3 retakes I was successfully able to make a Banana pie at home. I made one few months back. Another attempt was made last week where it completely backfired. However, this time I took extra precaution to make it look right. Just few things done better While

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Market Salad

Eating a salad is healthy. But is it really tasty? Not really. I wonder how some people manage to eat salad for lunch or a dinner. I can eat it as a snack, but not really something as a main course. But what the hell. To try my theory out

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A Fiasco with Banana Pie

Though it was vastly productive day in terms of number of attempts and number of successful recipes, I had to go through one major failure. I was quite pumped up with idea of making Banana Pie one more time after 4 months. But my dreams were shattered when there was

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Banana Cashew Muffin

After thinking over it for 2 hours, I finally decided to give go to Banana Cashew Muffins. The reason was I had already made cupcakes a day earlier and they were too much for me to eat in a week. Having another set of cakes was just too much and

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Egg Boat

What comes to your mind when I say boat? A fish? Water? A Machine that floats on a water and take you from one point to another? This weekend the boat meant to me as a delicious street food which by the way looked awesome and tasted too. Believe me,

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Banana Pie

Oh God, what a day! 3 hours and 3 recipes. I certainly has a effect of reading Elon Musk's biography. Make a plan, set unrealistic goals and do everything to achieve them in the set time. All right, moving to recipe. I made banana pie few weeks back. However, this