Whole Wheat Focaccia With Cherry Tomato and Chorizo
Bread and wine, cheese and fruit, a picnic under the trees, bare feet, lush grass, eyes squinting at the sun, a slow and happy drowsiness …
Recipes
South Indian Style Chicken Liver Pepper Fry
You can be a breast person or a leg-lover. A few may even be wingmen or women. But you can be sure nobody wants to …
Shepherd’s Pie With Rosemary-Scented Potatoes
I have a memory. A cold winter evening in a small town in Bihar, North India in the early 1980s, Mom, Dad and me sitting …
Chicken and Plantain Moqueca
Summer is early and the rains are reluctant. Chameleon-like, green plantains change colour in less than twelve hours as I think of ways to cook …
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 …
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 …