Saffron Rice cooked in the Microwave

Saturday, March 22nd, 2008

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After almost two weeks of eating out, the cravings for homemade food got unbelievably strong today. I had some frozen spareribs in the freezer, which I cooked with Indian spices to make a spicy pork fry. I don’t mind eating dry dishes with plain rice, as long as it is spicy, but Siv usually prefers a gravy with white rice.
First inkling was to make a fried rice, but the fridge was completely empty, even the eggs had expired almost a […]

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The husband is away on a business trip, the fridge is practically empty and it is pouring outside to go shopping. This was the situation at home tonight when it was time to start thinking about dinner. I raided the fridge to find some Portuguese sausage links, eggs and left over rice. First thought was to just have sausage and eggs, breakfast for dinner, why not? But then I thought of Meeta’s Monthly Mingle, and that today is the last […]

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We have ongoing arguments in our household as to who the better cook is. Now we all know there is really no argument there but I have to admit that there are a few dishes - when I say few, I mean single digits - that Siv is better at. For example he makes the best fish curry in the world, and I am not exaggerating. He also makes some mean crab dishes too. With chicken, mutton etc […]

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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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May 16th is LiveStrong Day, a day to raise awareness about cancer survivors organized by Lance Armstrong Foundation. There are many ways to get involved, Barbara of WinosAndFoodies has organized a blog event for us food bloggers to be a part of this day. This brave lady is a cancer survivor herself, and she has urged the food bloggers to cook an yellow dish to show our support and to spread the word about LiveStrong Day. 
LIVESTRONG Day is the Lance Armstrong Foundation’s […]

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I know easy is a relative term. Making Biryani is never that easy, it is normally a multi step process - prepare the meat and the gravy, fry the rice, cook the rice, mix the rice with the gravy and bake for a while… give or take and mix and match some steps here and there, it is a slightly complicated process! So when I found a recipe in one of my cookbooks where the process is made much simpler, really just […]

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I am very lucky to be married to a guy who not only shares my passion for food, but is a fantastic cook as well. But even though both of us work full-time, somehow cooking is my responsibility in our house. It is not something that Siv demands, he doesn’t expect me to cook every day, he cooks when he is in the mood, and expects me to do the same. But I have a voice in my head that […]

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Tapioca known as Cassava or Yuka (Kappa in Malayalam) is one of the staples in Kerala. Normally, “kappa vevichadu” is a preparation of tapioca boiled and mashed with ground coconut and spice mixture. This is normally served with fish curry or meat curry. This used to be a poor man’s meal, but now a days it is even served in five star restaurants in Kerala, it has become a delicacy.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassava
I first had Tapioca Biriyani here in the US from […]

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