Recipe - Fresh Beginning

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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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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A Pizza with more avocados, jalapenos and cucumber

This was an exciting weekend with all nice weather, rain, chill and my plan to make one more pizza with novel toppings all along. I mentioned my pizza preparation experience in couple of last posts. This is the third article from this list. I already bought Avocados and Cucumber as

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Pizza - Cheese and Veggies

Pizza has been my favorite (and mandatory) food ever since I arrived in the United States. Freely available and affordable. (Not really if you want to taste good quality of pizza) I have been going to a pizza place close to my work. Everything else worked good until temperatures started

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Chocolate Cookies (With Strawberry flavor and Coconut)

It was long time since I tried my cooking skills on cookies. (No pun intended) The reason I decided to make cookies one more time was I was running out of biscuits to eat with evening time tea. I cannot eat bread and butter all the time. I can probably

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Homemade Guacamole

Guacamole is one of my favorite foods. You can even say this is the reason I like to eat Mexican food. I have been going to Chipotle consistently cause these guys deliver best Guacamole. On the contrary, I stopped visiting Taco truck near our office cause they started serving substandard

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Sweets - Gulab Jamuns

It's Saturday - The day of holiday and weekend and I am very happy to have some of the spectacular and wonderful people around me. I guess very few people are lucky enough to get it everything. But back to my story. As you know I am fond of cooking

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Making Masala Dosa - Again

Masala dosa in my opinion is one of those dishes which are easy to prepare and taste delicious. Not sure why so many people buy readymade dosa batter when you yourself can make one at home so easily. Here we go for dosa batter recipe. 3 Parts of Rice flour

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Spicy Garlic Salmon

I cannot thank Tatyana's everyday food blog enough since I have been stealing lot of recipes from them recently. I love them for the reason food is delicious and easy to make. I am quite surprised how she makes everything look so simple and professional. So back to our spicy

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Chocolate Truffles

Who doesn't like chocolates? Truffles? Even better. Last week I went to Ghirardelli's online shop to buy some chocolates for friends and families back home. They have this great selection of chocolate truffles. It was priceless and bit expensive too. I thought why not make it at home. Luckily there

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Raspberry Cheesecake Dessert

This will be my first dish involving drink. Thanks to Tatyana's recipe on how to make raspberry cheesecake dessert. Luckily Walmart is close to my house which facilitates me to buy necessary groceries on my way home. Of course I needed raspberries, cookie crumbs, cream cheese and few drops of

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Dal Tadka

Dal is most common food in indian households. Maybe it's easily available and easy to make. But it's not that straightforward anyways. I had quite hard time making it when I prepared it for the first time. Dal was undercooked and I cooked it for very little time. After few

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Chicken Biryani - Indian Spicy Cuisine

Every time someone mentions chicken biryani, it reminds of my old roommate back in Bloomington, Indiana. He was damn good chicken biryani chef and I feel glad and lucky to have roommate someone like him. His speciality was to prepare biryani from scratch without having to use any readymade spices.

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Chocolate Strawberries - Dessert

It was my long living dream to make at least one dessert that looks good and tastes great as well. Chocolate and strawberry combination is real great for that. Coating chocolate with strawberry will make it an ultimate dish. As usual I got this idea from Tatyana's Blog, where she

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Delicious Strawberry Chocolate Pancakes

This is off the topic, but today I borrowed 4 books from Bexley Public Library. These books probably will be my last books to read in US, or at least last set before I leave for India in the next month. These books are as follow 1. How Toyota became

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Egg Curry - Indian Cuisine

Egg Curry! I know at least one friend of mine who likes this recipe prepared by me. The history of me making Egg curry goes long back in January - 2012 when we as roommates made a pact of shared cooking where every person has two turns in week to

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Pav Bhaji - Mumbai Snack

Not to brag, but the Pav Bhaji I prepared last week was the best I had after the one my maternal aunt prepared long time ago. Making Pav Bhaji is simple but also requires an art to make one. You will need very simple ingredients such as Potato, peas, cauliflower,

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Cocoa Cake

Sunday special is always special for me. You in fact double the holiday pleasure when you make a dessert. Since I had enough cocoa in my house I went ahead and make chocolate-cocoa cake. The side effect was all my kitchen was smelling like cocoa. I love cake. Even better

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Sabudana Khichadi

Sabudana recipes are my favorite. Reason being they are easy to prepare. All you need is soak Sabudanas in water for couple of hours. Keep them to try for half n hour. If you don't screw anything so far you are good to make Sabudana Khichadi or Sabudana vada. The

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Black Forest Cake

It was my plan for several days to make a picture perfect cake. Though I didn't quite managed to pull that off, I came very close on last Sunday. I never really made cake by myself before. Though I made Banana Pie as mentioned in one of last posts. First

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Vegetable Manchurian

Friday January 22nd, 2015 was awesome in the sense that I made my first ever best Chinese dish. Of course as mentioned in my previous posts, I made General Tso's and Chicken chow mein earlier. But for some reason I didn't think they were my perfect product. I was supremely

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Chicken Vindaloo

Since we are on the same page concerning gravy and chicken. (Given my last two posts about Chicken Saag and Kashmiri Dum Aloo). Chicken Vindaloo was my first dish to try out Vinegar. It tastes like a Ayurvedic medicine and smells like Wine. Not sure why, but I prepared all

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Kashmiri Dum Aloo

Frankly I never thought before beginning to cook this dish that it would turn out to be one of my best unexpectedly delicious dish. Obviously I started with VahChef's cooking video but didn't quite follow recipe since I was lacking some of the ingredients required for it. So I spun

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Winter Delaying my Recipes

Looks like winter had seriously begun in the Columbus, Ohio. It started almost a month late and now here we are. It's lightly snowing and temperature dropped to low 20s. It's not really possible to go out now without thick jacket, snow-shoes and gloves. Unfortunately I lost my winter gloves

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Banana Pie

Finally, my childhood dream came true. I mean just partially which I might be able to complete before my next India trip. Ever since I had my first pie and cake, I always wished to have it prepared at home. Not that I am a good chef, but I just