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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Ghoogni - Curried Chickpeas

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Ghoogni Diced Garnishes Mixed Together with Lime Ghoogni  or curried chickpeas are a popular street food found...
Sunday, December 20, 2015

Maach Alur Tomato Jhol - Fish & Potatoes in Tomato Gravy

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Maach Alur Tomato Jhol A typical Bengali fish preparation, this dish is light and perfect for a midday meal. It's usually served wit...
Monday, December 14, 2015

Kumro Bati Chorchori - Simple Stir-Fried Pumpkin/Butternut Squash

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Kumro Bati Chorchori Kumro (pumpkin) Bati (dish/one-dish) Chorchori (stir-fried vegetable) is a delectable Bengali preparation with pump...
Thursday, December 10, 2015

Stained Glass Kyauk Kyaw/Jello

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Stained Glass Kyauk Kyaw Kyauk Kyaw, a popular dessert in Burmese cuisine, is a form of jello made with agar-agar instead of gelatin. Ag...
Saturday, December 05, 2015

Pork Lo Mein

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Pork Lo Mein Watching Sandra Lee's Semi Homemade show on TV taught me to simplify some of my cooking by using store-bought foods ins...
Saturday, November 28, 2015

Thanksgiving Dinner 2015

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Our Thanksgiving Meal Friday, November 27, 2015   Beverages   Raspberry Bellinis Hot, Spiced Apple Cider Appetizers F...

Sausage Stuffing

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Sausage Stuffing I usually make stuffing with just onions, carrots and celery, but this Thanksgiving I added crumbled sausage. It dramat...

Steamed Balsamic Asparagus Topped with Crumbled Bacon

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Asparagus with Crumbled Bacon Tender asparagus spears, steamed and tossed with a balsamic vinaigrette and garnished with crumbled bacon ...

Baked Baby Potatoes

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Baked Baby Potatoes These little red and yellow potatoes are so delicious baked in their jackets. They were a hit at our Thanksgiving ta...
Monday, November 23, 2015

Kid-Friendly Moo Shu Chicken

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Moo Shu Chicken Another successful kid-friendly dinner made its way to the dinner table the other day, when GrandBoy #1 spent the evenin...
Wednesday, November 18, 2015

Chicken and Spinach in Coconut Gravy

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Chicken & Spinach in Coconut Gravy Saag Meat is a popular Indian dish, saag being spinach cooked with any kind of meat and a lot o...
Sunday, November 08, 2015

Patla Maacher Jhol - Fish in a Light Sauce

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Patla Maacher Jhol Yesterday, I caught sight of  wild-caught Alaskan rockfish  for the first time at our local supermarket. It's a ...
Friday, November 06, 2015

Green Lentils & Carrot Stew

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Green Lentil & Carrot Stew Green & Red Lentils Green lentils are whole red lentils whose outer skin have been left intact...
Thursday, November 05, 2015

Indo-Chinese Chili Chicken

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Indo-Chinese Chili Chicken Boneless & skinless chicken thighs, I find, are more moist than chicken breasts and we purchase them in 6...
Thursday, October 29, 2015

Palang Alu Posto Bhaja - Stir-Fried Spinach & Potatoes with White Poppy Seeds

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Palang Alu Posto Bhaja I usually use frozen spinach because it's so convenient, but nowadays one pound packages of pre-washed baby s...
Saturday, October 24, 2015

Oats Utthappam - Savoury Oat Pancakes

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Oats Utthappam Using oatmeal instead of flour for pancakes and making them savoury is a great alternative for those of us who, for medi...
Thursday, October 22, 2015

Stir-Fried Chicken & Riced Cauliflower

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Chicken with Riced Cauliflower Recently, social media has been inundated with healthier, carb-free alternatives to fried rice. Using cau...
Tuesday, October 20, 2015

Chaal Diye Muror Ghonto - Fish Pilaf

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Chaal Diye Muror Ghonto In Bengali, m uro  means fish head and  ghonto  is a melange of different ingredients. Adding rice and potatoes ...
Saturday, October 17, 2015

Spanish Rice with Chicken Sausage

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When the GrandBoys (8 & 9 year-olds) have dinner with us once a week, it's a challenge to come up with tempting, yet nutritio...
Monday, September 28, 2015

Crab Cake Meal

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Crab Cake Meal I made this for dinner one night when we were looking for a break from Indian food. Lump crab meat is available at most s...
Saturday, September 12, 2015

Tiny Whitebait in Onion & Tomato Gravy - Kachki Mach-er Jhol

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Kachki Maach-er Jhol They're called whitebait in English and keski  or kachki maach  in Bengali. Compare the thickness of the trans...
Friday, September 11, 2015

Mung Dal-er Khichuri - Mung Beans Lentil Stew

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Mung Dal-er Khichuri for Lunch Khichuri is a lentil stew that is usually made with lentils and rice. I spied a South Indian pongal prepa...
Wednesday, September 09, 2015

Meatball Stew

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Meatball Stew It was one of those days when dinner was the last thing on my mind and the fridge was as bare as Mother Hubbard's cupb...
Monday, September 07, 2015

Burmese Tofu Salad

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Tofu Salad I've been trying to include more protein in my diet, so tofu has featured on my grocery list  of late. I have it in Miso ...
Tuesday, September 01, 2015

Paneer & Apple Payesh

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Paneer & Apple Payesh I found a recipe  for this payesh on Sanjeev Kapoor's website but, as you will notice, I modified it t...