Recipes
Thanksgiving Traditions and Recipes
My parents came to the U.S in the 1970s from India. Despite being immigrants with strong culinary traditions, they embraced Thanksgiving early on. We grew up eating the customary turkey or cornish hens, along with stuffing, mashed potatoes and cranberry sauce. In the last few years though they’ve come to appreciate American soul foods. While […]
Flourless Peanut Butter Cookies
This amazingly easy recipe for flourless peanut butter cookies comes from Tricia’s Things. It involves only a handful of ingredients that you already have (I’m just assuming. Please don’t think that I rifled through your pantry). I only made three changes – substituting flax egg, reducing the amount of sugar and baking for 15 minutes […]
Buckwheat Porridge with Cranberries
If buckwheat isn’t on your radar, it should be. It’s a great source of iron, fiber and is naturally gluten free. It’s sold as “cream of…” meaning broken finely or as whole grain. The biggest brand in the U.S is probably Wolff’s. It’s a grain popular in Russia where it’s known as kasha. This recipe […]
Indian Cabbage Recipe: Bandakopi’er Torkari
This is one of my favorite Indian ways to cook a vegetable because it’s so simple. Cabbage can always be depended on to absorb any seasonings while adding its own mild sourness. This bandakopi-er torkari is variation of a Bengali recipe. To give it brightness I included ajwain (jowan aka carom seed), a pleasant, aromatic […]
Garden Corn Chowder Recipe Via PostPunk Kitchen
This will be your new favorite soup. We came across this amazing corn chowder recipe at Postpunk Kitchen here. The coconut milk and potatoes really help to make this soup substantial and satisfying. It’s rich like any good chowder, but with an underlying sweetness from the corn and coconut milk. Only a few changes were […]
Fall Recipes: Gluten Free Vegan Apple Crisp
While locally grown apples are available much of the year in the Northeast, the briskness of fall gives added incentive to make warm apple crisp. This recipe is both vegan and gluten free. You’d wouldn’t know it by the taste though. The crisp can be made with a flour mix of your choice. For this […]
Indian Cocktails: Rosewater Gin and Tonic
Happy Kali Pujo (and Diwali) all. The Goddess Kali is worshipped particularly in Bengal and Odisha India. In Hindu mythology she is one of the fiercest of the Gods, once nearly bringing about the the destruction of the world until Shiva decided to lay below to stop her. Kali Pujo (puja means to worship) is […]
Chocolate Chip Pumpkin Loaf Via TastyKitchen
In the fall, coffee, donuts, pies – everything turns to pumpkin. Perhaps my favorite pumpkin recipe though is this gluten free chocolate chip loaf. It comes from the site TastyKitchen. I made the following modifications: Instead of all brown rice flour, we used 1 ¾ brown rice and ¼ cup potato starch. I also reduced […]
Chinese Inspired Pork Loin Recipe
With the intention of making a few recipes from Jen Lin-Liu’s book Serve the People I’d purchased the pork tenderloin. Unfortunately I was missing a few basic ingredients so I improvised this recipe for a Chinese 5 spice mini pork pot roast to delicious results. Servings: 3 Prep Time: 10 minutes Suggested Marinade Time: 1+ […]
Squash with Coconut Recipe (Lau Ghanto)
Lau aka Doodhi is a long green gourd you can find in Asian markets. It’s mildly sweet tasting and the seeds remind me a bit of those in cucumbers. This preparation is called a ghanto which means mixture in Bengali. Ghantos are generally lightly spiced veggies that are cooked down until the gravy is absorbed. […]
