Paneer Butter Masala

A Panjabi Restaurant Classic. Paneer in a creamy spicy tomato sauce. As a kid this was pretty much the only dish I would eat at restaurants. I was a weird kid who liked to eat home-cooked vegetables and didn’t particularly like the ones in restaurants 

Chana Masala

Spicy chickpea curry On one snowy January afternoon, my aunt and I decided to make chhole puri 🙂 When two foodies are stuck together on a snowy day, what else would you expect?! Isn’t a spicy curry with fried bread exactly something you would crave 

Thalipeeth

Maharashtrian style pancake with multi-grain flour (Bhajani) and vegetables. This is the best quick-fix healthy, delicious snack ever. It is my go-to dish when I don’t have time, am craving something crispy and savory and I want to use a leftover vegetable or dal or 

Savory Oats

Your daily Oatmeal – just better! If you are like me, you have wondered if there was a healthy, tasty, non-sweet way to make breakfast with oats. You have also then tried complicated Oats upma or other savory oats recipes and felt it wasn’t something 

Sol Kadhi

A cooling drink with coconut milk and kokam Theres two ways this is made, cooked and raw. I like the raw version. Its a perfect side with a Goan seafood meal. or any spicy non-vegetarian meal.   You will need: 1/2-3/4 cup coconut milk 1 

Simple Fish Curry

Simple hearty fish curry. Goan style. I could never really enjoy fish curries in India, they were either too smelly for my taste or the consistency (usually too thin) would be my problem. But the aroma and taste are still fresh in my memory. When 

Ice Cream

Beautifully simple recipe. Only a few “shortcut” recipes qualify for the Perfectionist’s standard and this one takes the cake (or should I say ice cream?) for its shortness as well as amazing standard of quality! Impressed. One of my best friends and a lovely coworker 

Ghadichi Poli

Poli/ chapati (Maharashtrian thin layered flat bread made with durhum wheat flour)     I made these in my new apartment last week. A rather ambitious plan to make poli and bhaji (a vegetable side) on a weekday after work, but so rewarding! The best 

Simple Fish Fry

Simple, tasty, healthy-ish     One of my favorite recipes to make. I don’t remember where exactly I got the recipe from. a little from my mom, a little from my aunt from Goa. But I have one definite memory of making this on one 

Besan ladoo (besanache ladoo)

Ojass and Prachi are two of the sweetest people I know. I visited them in Seattle a couple of weeks ago and Prachi wanted a quick faral (Marathi for snacks and sweets for special occasions and festivals) recipe to take to India for Ganpati, they