Coffee and Paprika Rubbed Grilled Chicken
Rain on the phone in another continent, leaks into my ear, a hypnotizing drip-drip slowly flooding my brain. Drowned memories float up. Striped paper boats …
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Eggless Chocolate Orange Pecan Brownies
Coffee does better when there’s chocolate involved. Their chemistry heightens conversation, cocoons us in the moment within which, the world becomes a playground of possibilities. …
Hey Presto! Pesto
Blitz together 2 cups of basil, 1 cup flatleaf parsley, a fat garlic clove, a tablespoon of feta, 1/4 each extra virgin olive oil and …
Flourless Citrus Yoghurt Cake
Love is a four-letter word. And like life, soul, fate or luck, it sits light on the tongue but can be heavy on the heart. Somewhat …
Banana Oat Muffins With Pecans and Salted Peanuts
Baking is therapy. It cures heartbreak, stress, loneliness, homesickness and many more blue-hued maladies. Like Panadol for your heart, its quick, foolproof and offers deliciousness as …
Roasted Butternut Squash, Potato and Feta Salad
Butternut squash is the king of autumn vegetables and I love it when it’s simply drizzled with olive oil, oven-roasted and seasoned lightly with salt …
Moroccan Spiced Lamb and Chickpea Soup
Auburns, rusts and sepias are seeping into the landscape, slowly and surely painting over the greens. The purple-flowering Pride of India outside my kitchen window has a …
Chilled White Almond and Grape Soup
“Nice day for a white wedding…” drawled Billy Idol in his black voice on my phone as I wrestled (like I do everyday) with the lunch …
Rice and Cheddar Stuffed Jalapeños
On any given day you are likely to find at least five types of fresh and/or dried chillies in my fridge and kitchen cupboard. I …
Smoked Turkey and Rice Noodle Salad
Having survived a smothering by skies saturated with endless columns of cumulonimbus that almost caused a repeat of the Great Flood, I spent the first …
Coconut Prawn Curry
I made this coconut prawn curry in the midst of four days of incessant rain that brought with it a deluge of memories of monsoons …
Roasted Red Peppers and Goat Cheese Risotto
Remember cheese cubes? They were all the rage in the eighties – little creamy rectangles neatly encased in shiny foil wrapping. Growing up in India …