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Chai for Saturday!
Oh, our simple chai, how we love it. Before I moved here, I always thought of chai as something a lot more difficult to make than a cup of say, regular black tea.
Don’t get me wrong… I’ve made a lot of chai. But it’s always been a special occasion sort of thing. And then I [...]
Chapatti, Chapatti!
There is a little ditty we sing when we make chapattis around here. Um, it has one word. Chapatti Chapatti. I guess it’s not really a ditty, it’s more of a singsong word.
Anyways. Chapatti is awesome. I’ve never fully appreciated it before now, before Jaya, really, because she makes the [...]
Masoor Dahl
This may possibly be the easiest recipe you’ll ever try. I’ve been flabbergasted since I’ve been hanging out with Jaya, because I used to think of Indian food as being complicated.
Granted, some dishes are complicated. Some require day-before type of notice, if you’re going to cook them. But dahl, dahl is not complicated.
I’ve had some [...]
Jaya’s Aloo Ghobi
Jaya and I have made a trade. She’s going to teach me how to cook North Indian Food, and I’m going to teach her how to read. In English, of course. So far she’s learned all the sounds in the alphabet, and we’ve had some fun with some of the hard consonants. [...]