For the dal dish for my Indian dinner party I did the simplest red lentil recipe in the book (At Home With Jadhur Maffrey). It was so easy I figured it'd be bland and boring, but I knew there would be other flavours in the other dishes to pick up the slack in the meal. There … [Read more...] about Bangladeshi Red Lentils
My Indian kitchen: Sweet and Sour Butternut Squash
I find myself buying butternut squash three at a time. Is that ridiculous? I'll usually roast them and then eat the chunks with rice or kamut or barley for lunch or a snack or a side dish. But I have the attention span of a goldfish recipe-wise, and I get bored of making the … [Read more...] about My Indian kitchen: Sweet and Sour Butternut Squash
Back At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: South Indian-Style Green Beans with Sesame, Cumin and Mustard Seeds
I meant to make an Indian mustard pickle, but when I went to prepare the third dish for my small Indian dinner party - green beans - I couldn't remember which recipe I had decided to use. This one for South Indian style green beans is pretty boring, it's true, but it won't upset … [Read more...] about Back At Home with Madhur Jaffrey: South Indian-Style Green Beans with Sesame, Cumin and Mustard Seeds
Baked Brown Rice and Marriage Potential
I ran out of stove-top space and large pots. It's as simple as that. I was having some friends over for dinner and wanted to make an Indian meal. So that meant the dal (in this case red lentils) and squash both needed a large pot. The green beans could live with a small pot, but … [Read more...] about Baked Brown Rice and Marriage Potential
Slow Food Montreal: Interview with Bobby Gregoire
This morning on radio CKUT 90.3FM I interviewed Bobby Gregoire of Slow Food Montreal. The organization is not trying to get everyone to have a pot of tomato sauce sitting on the stove all day - an image I associate with long cooking times and food appreciation - rather it … [Read more...] about Slow Food Montreal: Interview with Bobby Gregoire
Banana-Apple Gluten-Free Pancakes with Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam and Maple Syrup
I've been saving jam for a special occasion. I skipped Shrove Tuesday and haven't been eating toast, so the special occasion jam sitting in my fridge has been waiting and waiting for me to decide it's time to indulge a little. All that sugar really is an indulgence to me and … [Read more...] about Banana-Apple Gluten-Free Pancakes with Strawberry-Rhubarb Jam and Maple Syrup
Montreal Goes Vegetarian – Interview with Dihua Wei of Vegetopia
This morning on CKUT radio 90.3FM I interviewed Dihua Wei, one of the organizers of Vegetopia, a month-long GO-VEGETARIAN! challenge running from now until April 10th. Even if you don't want to get on the veggies-only band wagon, you can still attend the cooking workshops, … [Read more...] about Montreal Goes Vegetarian – Interview with Dihua Wei of Vegetopia
Indian Goes Raw: Peshawari Red Pepper Chutney
There aren't a whole lot of raw Indian dishes. Mostly you want to cook foods (except fruit) for a long, long time. Take spinach, for example. In India you cook the buh-jesus out of spinach until it absorbs all the spices you can throw at it. The only thing you really eat raw in … [Read more...] about Indian Goes Raw: Peshawari Red Pepper Chutney
I Am At Home, Thanks, Ms. Jaffrey: Potato Chaat
I've been cooking from Madhur Jaffrey's Indian cookbooks for about four years now. I remember first asking my teacher at the University of Toronto if I could come to his house some afternoon and cook with his wife who once a year made an amazing buffet-style dinner of Indian food … [Read more...] about I Am At Home, Thanks, Ms. Jaffrey: Potato Chaat
Healthy Indian Recipes and Cleansing the Body: Toor Dal
I've been in a post-festival en lumiere detox state for a week now. Until this month I've never felt the need to clean out my body with a cleanse or any kind of fasting - maple syrup and lemon are not things on which I choose to subsist - but when your body is screaming at you … [Read more...] about Healthy Indian Recipes and Cleansing the Body: Toor Dal