Category: Food

Recipe: Cardamom and Rose scented Almond Milk
Most of you know that I'm a serial coffee drinker and while caffeine from coffee doesn't really bother me (caffeine from tea is a ...

Recipe: Lemon-Rose Yogurt Olive Oil Cake
One of my favorite recipes to make on the weekends is Ina Garten’s lemon yogurt cake and this time I made a lemon-rose icing to go...

Recipe: Rose Lassi
If you've been following along, you all know that I recently made a purchase of a rather large quantity (by accident) of culin...

Recipe: The Dona Chai Hot Toddy
Masala chais are an afternoon staple in many Indian homes, and while I myself am a big coffee drinker, I do find myself enjoyi...

5 Food Photography Tips using your iPhone
As they say, the best pictures are taken with whatever camera you have with you, and these days, that camera is most likely yo...

Recipe: Open Faced Pastrami-Style Smoked Salmon Sandwich
I'm at HUGE Trader Joes fan. In fact, I design my weekly meals around TJ's availability. One of TJ's standouts is their pastrami-s...

Recipe: Easy Egg Curry to escape the winter chill
This is one of my go-to recipes when I have some extra eggs and leafy greens lying around. The remaining ingredients are typical o...

Recipe: A Light South Indian Meal
I grew up in a vegetarian household and while my sister and I were encouraged by my parents to eat meat when we were outside t...

Destination: Inner Mongolia (and Recipe!)
One of my lifelong dreams was to visit the vast grasslands and desserts of Mongolia. As a young child, I'd always been enamored by...