Category: cauldron
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Karachi Biscuits.
The lock down has been great, I have run out my standard nibbles. So I decided to try out making the Karachi biscuits at home. Essentially I modified the Nankatai recipe. Ingredients: ¾ cup plain flour. ½ cup powdered sugar. ¼ cup custard powder ¼ butter ¼ cup tutti-frutti. 2tbs broken cashew ½ tsp baking…
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Green Amaranths Vada.
Pachche harive vade. The lockdown has caused a dwindling pantry and a dwindling pantry meals improvising on recipe’s. The kallina-patrode or spicy colocasia roast has always been a favourite of mine. Given my health and pantry conditions it is impossible to make it. Yesterday I saw pacche-harive, or rajgira or dhave-bhaji as it is called…
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Coffee-Doodle-Do On a Quest for Araku Coffee
vital aspect of the ritual of waking up, the cup of coffee, with my first cup of coffee, I pray, its a silent prayer sung while the mind is still foggy and blue,”O Magic cup,” it goes,”carry me above the traffic jam. Keep me civil in the subway.And forgive employer as you forgive me.Amen”—by the…
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International Nacho day.
21st October is the world Nachos day. So I kind of got think of what nachos might be. What I learnt was it was probably borrowed firm the Spanish Nacho, which actually is a hypocoristic form of the first name Ignacio. After Ignacio Anaya Garcia (1895-1975) culinary origin myths credit May 23 1954 as its…
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Kaapi kathe- Malabar Monsooned Coffee
The Monsooned Malbar coffee Let’s take the coffee pledge for the coffee workers. Centuries ago when coffee beans were transported to Europe in ships, six months of travel caused an amazing transformation to the seeds. The monsoon caused the beans to swell and change colour, it acquired an intensely mellow flavour. Now this magic is…
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A check list when you visit a sick person.
“Mala uttaure Deva” Aunt Ursula was demanding of our father in heaven. Like he would want to saddle himself with another whining, dissatisfied soul. I can imagine her entering the pearly gates and telling St. Peter, “tycha phatley saaf kor” and out of sheer fright St.Peter would pick a duster to dust the pearly gates.…
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