Gulab Jam (Gulab Jamun)

Gulab Jam (Gulab Jamun)

We call them “Gullus” at home 🙂 cuz the family favorite dessert certainly needs a sweet pet name! Sunita Aji made the BEST Gualb Jamuns. This is one dessert that I don’t make a blanket statement about. I don’t think I can just say “I 

Doodhi Apple Orange ginger juice

I started juicing a few years ago – it is one of the easiest ways to incorporate raw fruits and vegetables in your diet. Over the years I have experimented many different combinations of fruits and vegetables in juices. This juice recipe is one of 

Methi Matar Malai

Methi Matar Malai

Literally translated fenugreek, peas and cream. This is a classic North Indian dish. The sweet green peas perfectly balance the slightly butter umami flavor of the methi (fenugreek) leaves. Although this normally is the second or third dish you order at a restaurant as a 

Sourdough bread – stretch and fold method

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Marinara Sauce

Marinara Sauce

Any time I find bright red, ripe tomatoes, I bring them home and make myself a batch of delicious marinara sauce. It can then be there for me in the fridge for a few weeks for whenever I crave some pizza or a homely spaghetti 

Turkish Eggs

Turkish Eggs

Poached eggs with garlic and dill flavored Greek yogurt – Turkish specialty If there is one dish, I couldn’t have left Turkey without getting the authentic recipe for, it’s this – Turkish eggs! Got the recipe from a sweet colleague in Turkey. This dish is 

Andyache Gatte

Andyache Gatte

Poached eggs on a bed of spicy caramelized onions. I can best describe this as a spicy onions, Indian version of shakshuka This is another gem of a recipe from my mother-in-law’s collection. It is probably my most favorite way to make eggs for a heavy 

Pizza

Pizza

Easy home-made pizza from scratch I have always been intimidated of bread-making in general. Taking a nice bread-making course still remains on my to-do list. The worst part of bread making is kneading the dough, considering the fact that I have some major carpal tunnel 

Chicken tikka

Chicken tikka

grilled chunks of chicken marinated in a red spicy mix I first started making chicken kebabs for barbecue parties for this group of college friends many years ago. We would have at least 2 backyard barbecue parties every year and I was assigned the job