Once in a while I get e-mails from readers asking for menu suggestions for a dinner party they are planning. This is my absolute favorite part of any party- coming up with the menu. Siv and I spend days planning a menu for the parties that we throw, and come up with an over-ambitious menu comparable to that of a tasting menu at a fine restaurant. But due to utter laziness and the tendency to procrastinate doing any kind of job till the absolute last minute, more often than not we end up ditching the pre-planned menu and do a d-day scrambling to buy groceries […]

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This is the first critically acclaimed dish that I’ve ever cooked. Long time ago, when I was still an amateur cook (ahem… you start a food blog, and immediately you are known as an expert, in my circle at least ) I used to make this dish for all my parties, just because this was the only dish I knew how to cook in bulk!
The best compliment I got on this recipe was when someone asked me a long […]

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Chilli Chicken is a loose term used to describe a variety of dry chicken preparations in India. There is no standard recipe for it, everyone uses the culinary license to make their own versions of this popular dish. I have multiple variations of chilli chicken recipes, it is the perfect dish to experiment with. This particular recipe is based on a tried and loved Pepper Chicken recipe from Hooked On Heat. I This time I used Meena’s base technique of sautéing the marinated chicken pieces, […]

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Chicken Lollypop is one dish that I miss greatly from the Indo-Chinese restaurants back in India. I’ve been to a bunch of Indo-chinese restaurants around here in US and Canada, but none of them served this wonderful dish!!! Recently I went to a Latin-Asian fusion restaurant and ordered Chicken Lollypops and was very disappointed, when it turned out to be a totally different dish.
So this Friday night, when we wanted to chill at home instead of eating out, […]

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