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Saturday, November 26, 2016

Stuffed Rava Idlis

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Stuffed Rava Idlis Cream of wheat is known as  rava in Hindi and suji in Bengali. Idlis are steamed cakes made from rice or cream...
Thursday, November 24, 2016

Sweet-Lime Salad

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Sweet-Lime Salad Chinese Seasoning Salt for Fruits The perfect pick-me-up between meals, the sweet-lime this morning was not sw...
Wednesday, November 23, 2016

Mung Bean Lentils - Kacha Mooger Dal

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Kacha Mooger Dal    Split Mung Beans Rarely do I cook lentils without adding vegetables, but these split mung beans taste r...
Tuesday, November 22, 2016

Koi Maacher Jhaal - Climbing Perch in a Hot Sauce

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Koi Maacher Jhaal Maacher Jhaal comes in two varieties. There is Sorshe Batar Jhaal or fish in mustard sauce and there is Maacher Jhaal...
Sunday, November 20, 2016

Cauliflower in Yogurt Sauce - Doi Phoolkopi

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Doi Phoolkopi It's hard to keep cauliflower from turning to mush when it's cooked in a gravy base. Today I l earned a new trick ...
Monday, November 14, 2016

Pumpkin Angel Food Cake

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Pumpkin Cake A La Mode The easiest dessert ever! We had this for Thanksgiving dinner this year and I preferred it to the pumpkin pie of...
Sunday, November 13, 2016

Thanksgiving Dinner 2016

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Thanksgiving 2016 Menu Beverages   Raspberry Bellinis Hot, Spiced Apple Cider Appetizers Fruit Salad Entrée ...
Saturday, November 12, 2016

Banana Walnut Friendship Bread

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Banana Walnut Friendship Bread This is a nostalgic bread/cake that goes back to the days when we first arrived in Toronto, Canada in t...
Wednesday, November 02, 2016

Prawns in Mint Sauce

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Bhapa Pudina Chingri Inspired by Mahesh Khole's recipe on Facebook, this prawn dish was quick and easy to prepare and took just a fe...

Red Lentils with Cauliflower Stalks

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Musuri Dal r Phool Kopi'r Danta This was one of Mum's favourite ways of preparing red lentils. It tastes great garnished with ...
Wednesday, October 05, 2016

Astho Dim-er Malai Curry - Whole Eggs in Coconut Sauce

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Astho Dim-er Malai Curry Fried Whole Eggs Fried Eggs Malai Curry is a favourite sauce made with coconut milk that is most commo...
Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Alu Gobi Mattar - Potatoes, Cauliflower and Peas Curry

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Alu Gobi There are so many ways to prepare this all-time favourite Indian dish. It's vegetarian, vegan if ghee is omitted and is the...
Tuesday, September 27, 2016

Easy Chicken Salad

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2 lbs. of Chicken Salad Chicken Salad Crescent Sandwiches Chicken Salad Meal It's best to use fresh chicken breasts f...
Sunday, September 04, 2016

Mohinga Thoke - Burmese Cold Noodle Salad

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Mohinga Thoke   Prepped Ingredients An Internet recipe  served as the basis for this salad but I made many adjustments to suit my ta...
Saturday, August 27, 2016

Ground Chicken and Eggplant Stew

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Ground Chicken & Eggplant Stew I came across a picture of this dish on Facebook, but the recipe had not been added at the time, so ...
Friday, August 26, 2016

Kale & Spinach with Sweet Potatoes

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Kale & Spinach with Sweet Potatoes Frozen cut kale and spinach are stir-fried with diced sweet potatoes. Make sure to soak the sweet...
Saturday, July 09, 2016

Burmese Kyauk Kyaw - Perfected Technique

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Kyauk Kyaw or Coconut Jelly I've spent most of my adult life trying to achieve the perfect Kyauk Kyaw that has two distinct layers, ...
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Friday, July 01, 2016

Bread & Yellow Alu (Potato) Croquettes

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Potato Croquettes In what now seems to be a distant and past life, I was fortunate to be mentored by a gourmet cook who taught me a lot ...
Thursday, June 30, 2016

Crepes Stuffed with Yellow Alu and Served with Sambhar

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Masala 'Dosa' with Sambhar We are so fortunate in North America to have foods from all over the world available to us in our l...
Monday, June 27, 2016

Eggplant & Pork in Oyster Sauce

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Eggplant & Pork in Oyster Sauce For a quick and easy main dish with an Asian flair, few dishes can beat this eggplant and pork stir-...
Monday, June 20, 2016

Faluda - Rose Syrup Flavoured Milky Beverage Topped with Jello

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Faluda Faluda is layered  dessert  in a glass that originated in Iran. It's a multi-textured summer drink which the Parsis, who mi...
Sunday, June 19, 2016

Burmese Stir-Fried Cabbage with Scrambled Eggs

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Cabbage with Scrambled Eggs Weekends were very special when we were growing up, made even more festive by Mum's cooking. She was a c...
Sunday, June 05, 2016

Cucumber and Onion Salad with Dill

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Cucumber and Onion Salad with Dill Fresh herbs in the supermarket come in big bundles so I made a stir-fry using eggplant and potatoes a...
Monday, May 30, 2016

Chicken Biryani

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Chicken Biryani Biryani is a delicious and wholesome combination of rice, layered with meat or vegetables and potatoes, cooked with...
Saturday, May 28, 2016

Tzatziki Meatloaf Rollup

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Tzatziki We  recently had gyros-in-a-kit which came with a serving of tzatziki. Just take a look at the nutrition facts for tzatziki ......