Versatile Apple
on Nov 13, 2009 in Everyday Recipes Salad-Koshimbir Quick Fix Vegan Recipe Indian Pickle Fruits-Apples Raw Recipes Newbie Special English Fall is all about falling leaves, crisp weather and fruits like pears, persimmons and apples. While I can practically live on fruits, apples is something I used to avoid as much as I could. I stopped buying apples after seeing GIANT supermarket fruit...

Chane Pindiwale
on Nov 6, 2009 in Everyday Recipes Quick Fix Healthier choice Vegan Recipe Beans-Garbanzo Region-Punjab English It was about 10+ years ago when I tasted this. I was visiting my aunt in Mumbai and her neighbor who usually used to send almost everything that cooked at her place for taste. Very simple and tasty food. I was told that was Pindiwale Chane. I always...

7 cup barfi
on Nov 2, 2009 in Vegetable-Carrots Flour-Chick Pea Special Occasion Sweets-Non Vegan English This burfi is extremely rich in taste and makes a perfect sweet for Diwali. Recently a friend made it to distribute as a diwali treat for her colleagues. One of her colleague liked it so much that she wanted the recipe. So here is the recipe with som...

Methi Mutter Malai
on Oct 29, 2009 in Everyday Recipes Healthier choice Vegetable-Tomatoes Vegan Recipe Special Occasion Beans-Green Peas Greens-Methi English (Methi-Mutter-Malai in Marathi) I am not a huge fan of restaurant kind of Punjabi food. I usually try to avoid going to these so called 'Indian' restaurants as the gravies of all the dishes tastes the same. There is hardly any indication if the dish...

दिन दिन दिवाळी
on Oct 17, 2009 in Sesame Seeds Vegan Recipe Coconut Special Occasion Sweets-Vegan Diwali

Quick and Healthy Date Rolls
on Oct 11, 2009 in Nuts-Cashews Quick Fix Healthier choice Vegan Recipe Raw Recipes Newbie Special Dates Nuts-Almonds Sweets-Vegan Nuts-Walnuts English Diwali (Khajoor Laadoo in Marathi) It was about 5 years ago I had started eating only raw food. I got bored eating just fruits as dessert and needed something that was bit sweeter and not 'fruity'. I always stocked different varieties of nuts and dates at t...

Patal Pohyancha Chivada
on Oct 5, 2009 in Nuts-Cashews Sesame Seeds Pohe Vegan Recipe Nuts-Peanuts Raisins Comfort Food Special Occasion English Diwali Diwali is just around the corner and it brings back lots and lots of memories from the past. This will be my 10th Diwali celebration away from 'home'. After every India trip I decide to go to India to celebrate the next Diwali and it has not happened...

Ragada Patties
on Sep 12, 2009 in Vegan Recipe vegetable-Potatoes Special Occasion Appetizer Beans-Dried Peas 'Ragada Patties' is one of my favorite fast food. We used to go to this road side vendor near Mahalaxmi Temple (precisely near Vidyapeeth Highschool) when I was studying in Kolhapur. Ragada Pattice, Aloo tikki, Samosa Chat were few items that I remem...

Three Versions Of Banana Bread
on Sep 8, 2009 in Blog Patrol Fruits-Banana Vegan Recipe Special Occasion Baking Fruits-Blueberries Flour-Wheat Sweets-Vegan Nuts-Walnuts Banana is one of my least favorite fruit. I can still eat a small bananas that we get in India but the one we get here are so huge that I can't even finish half of it. Then again it has to be ripe just enough, not too soft or not too raw. I do not ev...

Indian cooking Challenge - Ganesh Chaturthi Special
on Aug 30, 2009 in Sesame Seeds Coconut Sweets-Vegan Flour-Rice Ganesh Chaturthi is celebrated bit differently in Maharashtra. Its celebrated at home as well as as community. Lokamanya Tilak transformed that into a community based event. Most of the time a group of people come together and form a committee and de...