Nope, no Covid-era adventures (or misadventures today) Because me being me, I will keep having culinary adventures now and then. And living alone brings pretty playful disasters or even miracles! When you accidentally discover a dish because you were too lazy or too embroiled in office-work to cook a curry based dish that you anyway…
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The gluttonous devil in us is always looking for new food experiences, be it at our home or in restaurants or at food festivals.
My kitchen Miracles IV – The perfect millet cheelas
I will not give a disclaimer that Covid-era cooking adventures continue today as well. And before people start thinking that this girl is always cooking disasters, today I’m bringing my first success story in relation to cooking millets. As Magneto remarks in X-Men: First Class, “Failure was never an option”. I have taken this statement…
My kitchen disasters XI – fishy business
My weekly ritual of writing about my Covid-era disasters continues this week as well. At the end of this episode, I was about to tear my long hair from my head and the duo ofmy mother-sister was laughing hysterically! I love chicken, fish, cottage cheese and tofu fillet, especially when they are grilled to perfection…
My kitchen disaster X – cooking millets for the first time
Ratatouille really inspired me with the quote that “Anyone can cook!” And I took this quote seriously during Covid work-from-home era. Yes, we are still sticking with covid-era culinary adventures. They are not ending soon! That era was characterised by those dreaded Kadhas (never drank the medically unproven shams), heat-providing dishes, virus-destroying ingredients such as…
My kitchen disasters IX – the baguette chronicles
I’m still not over with the Covid-time disasters that happened in the world and in my kitchen. There is one thing called as exploring the recipes and cuisines. But over-enthusiasm to explore without fully studying the cuisines may result in man-made disasters. Or gluttonyguilts-made disasters! The idea of France always produces some different level of…
My kitchen Miracles – III – how to prepare a zesty plate of pasta
Before Covid came, I had never prepared a proper pasta sauce from the scratch. And after the Covid-era, I always prepare pasta sauces from scratch. I cannot imagine exposing my palate and my J-bag to the store-brought-monstrosity-in-a-jar. And before today’s kitchen miracle, I had only prepared the red sauce from scratch only once in which…
My kitchen disaster VIII – how not to cook quinoa
Covid came and brought a slew of wannabe chefs on Instagram. People who had not cooked even a day in their lives started posting atrocities such as noodle fritters, chocolate momo and the likes. In my defense, I had cooked for not just a day, but for years before covid came. It is a different…
My kitchen disaster VII – The sneaky farfalle/bow-tie pasta
A fine day during my B.Tech days, some 14 years back, I was watching a cooking show. It was an Indian show and the chef was cooking pasta. Till then, I had only known macaroni/penne/fusili as the only pasta shapes. But in that particular episode, the chef was showing a highly artisanal pasta crafted in…
My kitchen disaster – VI – in the journey of cooking German bought pasta
March 2020 – covid had just begun and I was in full paranoid mood of working from home and not letting anyone in my family go outside without a proper mask. Although my father rebelled against this rule fully by visiting the milk shop, the vegetables shop and God knows which shops with only a…
My kitchen miracles -II – the unusual pasta
This story seemed like a disaster once, but the more I discovered about food, the more I got to understand that many a times, our perceptions about disasters are wrong, they can be miracles too if we do not engage in self-criticism too much. And listen to our mothers, in the area that they are…
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