We are a pizza loving family, and when I gave the pizza a literal twist to make a pizza roll, qya was over the moon. I have tried different versions of this pizza roll recipe over time. While each attempt was good and we quickly devoured the rolls (my bulging waist bears witness), I wasn’t completel
Soft pizza pockets filled with sausage, mozzarella cheese and chunky tomatoes. My love for bread started when I was a little kid. There was a bakery near my home, and they chose the time we returned home from school to bake a fresh batch of bread. And there is nothing as tempting as the smell of fre
There are women (and men) out there who feel that every meal for their family should include, but not be limited to rice, roti, a vegetarian side, a non vegetarian side, a salad, curd rice and a sweet. There are also super people out there who cook a fresh meal every time instead of re heating left overs. In all honesty, I don’t aspire to be one of them. Seriously, this is not a case of sour grapes. It is just too taxing and I would rather spend my free time watching people cook five course meals on TV.
This one pot pasta is the kind of meal I would be happy cooking and eating during busy week nights. There is very less cutting and chopping involved, takes only about 25 minutes to be ready from start to finish, and leaves only one pot and a cutting board to be washed up. It has sausages, bacon, melted cheese and tomato. So delicious that everyone is happy.
If we can have Italian origins in the leadership of our democracy, we can also have pizza flavored samosas. There is no rule against it. And you will be surprised at how successful at least some of these combinations can be.
We are a pizza loving people. So much that Dominoes comes first on my speed dial list, friends send me offer coupons of all pizza outlets in town and qya sings “o tararararam o pizza aayo free” during his bath.
The last time qya had a pizza craving, I offered to make him one instead of buying one. “But I want a real pizza, not one you make”, he said. Ahem! I usually find stuff kids blurt out cute. Like how your friend’s kids ask you when you would be leaving the moment you enter their house. And how they remark after a few minutes – _you are still here! _But qya’s comment got me thinking that I should learn how to make pizza, a real pizza that can impress the fussiest of five year olds!
Twenty years back, if you asked a kid how a dish tasted, he would have responded with ‘good’, ‘spicy’ or a simple ‘I don’t like it’. The polite ones who have stacked the less appealing food on the side of the plate till some adult took pity and excused them from eating it. The naughty ones would have smuggled it away from the dining table and into the trash, or would have fed it to Charlie or Jimmy waiting patiently underneath the table, tongue hanging out.
The kids today give you a full depth analysis about the chicken being a bit too dry, the cheese cake luscious and ‘beautiful’ and how a bit more of lime would have balanced out those flavors perfectly, plus a tip or two about the perfect sushi if they feel like it. Marriage is no longer something that happens between a man and a woman but also (between man man, woman woman?), between flavors and textures. Kids continue to like their fried chicken and pizza but they also want to try foie gras and caviar.
Food is no longer abou
Paneer, a soft and fresh cheese, is a popular ingredient used in North Indian cooking. Go to a restaurant and vegetarian options are mostly restricted to paneer, mushroom and baby corn. Of the three, paneer is my personal favourite and it is surprisingly easy to make.
With the British Medical Journal giving the go ahead on the consumption of one egg per day, men who were constantly nagged by their wives for their untoward affinity towards the double omelette, women who were too busy to make puttu and kadala for breakfast, and kids who didn’t enjoy being bullied into eating dosa and sambar before the school van honked at their doors by their saber toothed mothers, can all heave a sigh of relief.
Because if you are not suffering from any other ailment, an egg a day can contribute to a robust health with its abundant quota of proteins, amino acids, riboflavin, and all vitamins from A to Z. And nothing can beat the deliciousness and convenience of a breakfast of fried egg and toast that’s ready in a jiffy.
If you are in the mood for something a bit fancier (but don’t want to late for that important meeting), you should try out this egg on toast.
Yesterday was Pethartha, which means farewell. It marks bidding farewell to every kind of sin that disqualifies you from getting that much coveted entry pass to heaven. And with Pethartha begins the preparation for the lent observed by Christians around the world in remembrance of the 40 days Jesus spent fasting in the desert where he was tempted by Satan.
But I (being a sinner) always tend to tweak the significance of Pethartha a bit and understand it to be my last chance to indulge in some serious gluttony before the fast begins. Can you blame me that I wanted to eat some significant something that would carry through the 50 days of strict vegetarianism before me? So, I made this Meat Extravagnza Pizza. Ok, it wasn’t very extravagent, considering there were only two kinds of meat in it. The sauce was nothing special either, and came right out of my tomato sauce bottle ;). I used my Pan Fried Pizza recipe for the base, but I baked it this time rather than fry it. In all, it was qui
Eid celebrations are colossal in scale in the Arab countries. I remember some of shopping craze I witnessed as a child during this season. For eg, watching an Arab and his considerably large family push several shopping carts loaded with eatables to the billing counter, including a cart that contained only tins and tins of condensed milk! They must have been planning one hell of a party!
I do not normally celebrate Eid; but it bothers me that while many people around the world enjoy some seriously good food on the festival day, I may be trying to down a rather sad and ordinary meal. Eid calls for mean non vegetarian meals, no rabbit food please, thankyou! So, in addition to a chicken biriyani, I decide to make a starter which has chicken, eggs, cheese, herbs and spices in it. Can you beat that?
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