I believe the heart of the family beats in the kitchen. Food fuels our body and nourishes our soul.
I share here real food made using whole ingredients with big flavour, fresh herbs and health-boosting spices, all influenced by my roots in India and my travels. That’s what you will find here. But I’m also not one to spend hours in the kitchen, as you can tell from my healthy shortcuts and tips in every post. My kitchen is a little complicated — we have a number of food sensitivities in the family — so I tend to make food that is gluten-free, dairy-free, soy-free and tomato-free. Often but not always.
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The Granola Un-Recipe
I fell in love with granola during a hotel stay a lifetime ago. The chef had served his homemade granola for breakfast and I tried it...reluctantly. I have been trying to recreate the recipe ever since and therefore the Granola Un-Recipe. In other words, granola made easy! Hear me out. I can explain. Puneeta recently shared her family’s favourite homemade granola recipe. You can see it here. https://youtu.be/FpB-z-2s36Q I am not a breakfast cereal person. Growing up, I could not stand the idea of dalia — broken wheat cooked in milk, flavored mildly with sugar. I didn’t know what the...
Honey Ginger Chicken Recipe
Do you have a dish that's comfort food AND super healthy at the same time? And one that your kids ask for again and again? That's the dream, right? Honey Ginger Chicken is all of that and more. This easy chicken recipe for dinner is full of flavour, packed with veggies and you may even have all the ingredients for it already. Enjoy! Years ago I found an old edition of Australian Women's Weekly where I found a beef stir-fry recipe that used a combination of honey and ginger. This piqued my interest because the honey and ginger combo has,...
Easy Chocolate Chip Cookies with Pecans
Self-isolating at home? Here's a recipe for easy chocolate chip cookies with pecans. This version uses few ingredients and standard pantry staples that may already be available in your home. Enjoy! Baking is a comfort activity in our home. I usually turn on the oven when I have an afternoon free with the kids or when company is expected. With communities self-isolating around the world and people staying at home as much as possible, baking has taken on a new meaning. The other thing that has changed recently is our shopping routine. We are making less frequent trips to the...
Homemade Black Lentils {Instant Pot Dal Makhani}
Looking for interesting ways to add lentils to your diet? It doesn't get any better than this dish. Instant Pot Dal Makhani aka Black Lentils made at home checks all the boxes. Dal Makhani is not an everyday food in India. Named after its more famous cousin Murgh Makhani (Butter Chicken), this dish is often considered a treat that you order when you go out to eat in a restaurant. Decades ago my brother decided this was his favourite dal, and so my mom tested and came up with her own version of homemade Dal Makhani. This recipe, my mom's...
Kheer — Indian Rice Pudding recipe
Indian cuisine is famous for flavour, its use of spices and most of all for its variety of sweets. From all the amazing choice available, my favourite is simple rice kheer. Slow-cooked milk that is reduced and sweetened to a dense texture and then cooked with rice and spices. A decadent, mellow, UNFORGETTABLE rice pudding, Kheer is the quintessential Indian dessert. A celebration of milk Over years of writing and researching about food, I have attended a number of events hosted by the Dairy Farmers of Canada and the Ontario Dairy Meeting dairy farmers, learning about Canadian Dairy and how...
Shortcut Turkey Biryani
Lazy weekends always call for slow and special food, right? But what about hectic weeknight dinners? Those often get pushed down to the end of a long list of things-to-do. Sometimes, I find shortcuts to recreate a showstopper of a complicated dish to turn around for a quick, school night dinner. That's what this Indian biryani is. A traditionally slow-cooked "dum" dish, my version of this shortcut turkey biryani can be pulled together on any day you please. Traditional Indian biryani is made with marinated meat that is cooked with spices. The dish is then layered with tomatoes, onions and...
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