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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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 miracles – I
I usually keep the challenging-to-make dishes for some fine day when I will have plenty of time on my hand, when the unicorns will be frolicking and the rainbows will be illuminating the sky. Yes, the day that never comes! (This sentence just came to me, I hope Metallica does not sue me for copyright…
My kitchen disasters-III
“Ek to karela, upar se neem-chadha” This is a famous notion in Uttar Pradesh where the bitterness of bitter gourd is compared to the taste of neem. And when my dear mother started feeding me bitter gourd, I absolutely hated it! Hate is not a very strong word for the bitterness on my tongue, detest…
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