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December 31, 2013
A BIG THANK YOU: Home Style Indian Cooking Hits No. 1 in Hot New Releases category on Amazon
Dear Readers, Thank you so much for making my latest book “Home Style Indian Cooking In A Jiffy” hit the no. 1 mark in the Hot New Releases category in Indian Cooking. I’m truly overwhelmed. I don’t know how to explain this quite an unprecedented feat for a rather unknown author. So I have to […]
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December 24, 2013
FREE E-BOOK OFFER—-DON’T MISS IT
Dear Readers, This is the least I had to do for loyal supporters of my website like you. I’ve arranged with Amazon to let my second e-book in the JIFFY series of cookbooks “Home Style Indian Cooking In A Jiffy” (Kindle edition) go ABSOLUTELY FREE for five days from 25 December 2013 to 29 December […]
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December 19, 2013
How is “Home Style” Indian food different from “restaurant food”?
Many of my international friends are surprised to learn that there is in India a distinct difference between “Home Style” food and “restaurant food”. “So, what do you Indians eat at home?” They will ask me. Is it all really so different from “restaurant food”? And, more importantly, is it so superior to “restaurant food” […]
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December 16, 2013
Introducing “Home Style Indian Cooking In A Jiffy”
Dear Readers, I can’t tell you how happy and proud I am to present my new book “Home Style Indian Cooking In A Jiffy”. This second book of the series “How to Cook everything in a Jiffy” explores the contours of what sets Indian “Home Style” food so apart from restaurant food. With an amazing […]
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December 1, 2013
Khichdi: A Complete Indian Meal That Has a Festival Named After It
Khichdi literally means a mixture; of rice, lentils, vegetables and of course Indian spices. In some form or another, this is almost compulsorily prepared for the festival of Makar Sakranti that is celebrated all over India and Nepal. Probably because of this, the festival is simply called Khichdi in Bihar and Uttar Pradesh. Otherwise, the […]
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November 23, 2013
Interesting Facts About Cinnamon That You May Not Know
Do you know that Cinnamon (or the Indian Dalchini) is one spice that is used both in Eastern (including Indian) as well as Western cuisines? Indian cuisine is well known to use a mind-numbing variety of spices (the list is indeed long). I have heard quite a few celebrity chefs boasting how a particular kebab […]
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November 16, 2013
To Use Or Not To Use A Pressure Cooker
Many readers have written asking why I’m recommending the use of pressure cookers in many of my Indian recipes when pressure cookers have quite the “bad boy” reputation of being inherently dangerous. Also whether using pressure cookers is “mandatory” if you wish to “cook in a JIFFY.” (This is an excellent video about a pressure […]
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November 5, 2013
Cooking with Yogurt-the Indian way
Eating yogurt is, of course, no big deal. Flavoured or unflavoured, plain or fortified, made from full cream or skimmed milk—-the variety that industrially manufactured yogurt today comes in is simply mind boggling. But cooking with yogurt? You cook with cheese and wine but yogurt??? The question would certainly stump most aficionados of Western or […]
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October 26, 2013
Spinach recipes: How to make anyone fall in love with the dreaded SPINACH
How to make anyone fall in love with the dreaded SPINACH No one needs to be told that spinach is good for your health. Full of Vitamin A, C, K and Iron, Spinach is indeed brimming with nutrition. The problem is that the way spinach is normally cooked makes it too bland, especially for children. […]
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October 18, 2013
Health benefits of Turmeric
Why Should We Know How To Use Turmeric or the Indian Haldi? I have always wondered why Turmeric, which is so ubiquitous in Indian cuisine, is hardly ever used in western dishes. The only occasional use I have seen is its addition in some preparations of American-style Mustard but that too in really tiny quantities. […]
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