Shilpa on March 9th, 2010

Finally we have started using salmon regularly. I have been cooking it with slight modifications every time. We love grilled salmon with different spices. This is one such recipe I tried recently. It tasted great.
Ingredients:
18oz salmon fillet
Olive oil
Spinach paste (Make a paste of following) -
3/4 cup chopped spinach
1 tea spn ginger
1 tea spn garlic
4 green [...]

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Shilpa on March 7th, 2010

I started using almonds in my cooking few days ago. I had used it to make pesto because I did not have the nuts required for it. So I thought I could use it in Indian dishes too. The first time I tried it in place of coconut, it worked very well. Unlike peanuts, [...]

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Shilpa on March 5th, 2010

Dried green peas are one of my favorite dried beans, they taste quite different than the fresh/frozen green peas. I like to sneak them in wherever possible. This time when I had a bunch of soaked peas, I thought of mixing them with rice to make a one pot dish. I added eggs to [...]

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Shilpa on March 3rd, 2010

It has been a long time since I baked any cake. Though V loves cakes, I hardly bake them anymore due to my busy schedule. All I am managing is to prepare some day to day food.
Now, there were two reasons to even attempt this cake. One, we had a big batch of apples [...]

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Shilpa on March 1st, 2010

As I mentioned earlier, I am trying to use spinach in all its avatars these days. I always have a huge batch of pre-washed baby spinach in my refrigerator. I use a handful of it in whatever dish I can. Today I made this delicious spinach chutney with appe for breakfast.
Ingredients:
2 cups spinach
1/2 cup [...]

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Shilpa on February 25th, 2010

I had mentioned about our love for Mongolean grill here in US. The best part of it is, we can make the dish according to our own taste. While I like to put almost everything that is available – all vegetables, some chicken, some seafood, most of the sauces, some spices in mine – I [...]

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Shilpa on February 20th, 2010

This recipe is inspired by other Spinach-Coriander Pulav recipe. I made this yesterday morning to take in our lunch box. It came out really well. We both are not big fans of spinach taste, but I like to use it frequently because it is very healthy. This pulav masks the taste of it, which we [...]

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Shilpa on February 16th, 2010

V’s grandmother mentioned about this dish during our last India trip, somehow it had slipped out of my mind. Cooked okra is mixed with raw onion, coconut and some other ingredients to make this delicious bharth. It makes a great combination with some spicy papad(happal). This is a classic Konkani recipe. It can be made [...]

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Shilpa on February 13th, 2010

Anyone who is regular to this blog, knows my love for biryanis or any kind of flavored rice. It is also known fact that, I like to make something new instead of following same recipe again and again. When we were in India, we had so many favorite restaurants and whenever we felt like, we [...]

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Shilpa on February 8th, 2010

I am using salmon a lot these days, because of the high Omega-3 content in this fish. Usually I bake it or make some spicy dry dish, something we both really enjoy. This time, I wanted to try it in this spicy gravy. This was inspired by a fish gravy I tasted at an Indian [...]

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