Month: November 2017

-MASALA EGG BRAIDFAST-

“The next best thing to eating food, is talking about it” – Julia Thomson. So, let’s gossip about this one and let’s gossip well. “If you cannot work with love…

~ MUGHAL CHICKEN CHENGEZI~

Before I move onto this fireworks-of-flavour recipe, let me intrigue you with it’s much confused historical birth. Chicken Curry Chengezi is supposedly associated with the great Mongolian Emperor and warrior…

~BANAMOND TEA-CAKE~

“In Britain, a cup of tea is the answer to every problem. Fallen off your bicycle? Nice cup of tea.Your house has been destroyed by a meteorite? Nice cup of…

~BUTTER CHICKEN~

Okay! I admit it, I am a Naan Bread person. I love my curries and my Naan. It satisfies my hunger in a way rice never could, well, except for…

~CHICKEN FAJITA~

Cooking is all about people. No matter where you come from, food is something that will always be universal. It knows no race, colour or borders. It spurs innovation and…

~MINCE POTATO BIRYANI~

The delicious complex fusion of spices, warmth of flavour and freshness of mouthwatering aromas, Biryani, has come to epitomize the zenith of Indian Cuisine. Though it originated in Persia, Turk-Mongol…

~TAO BEEF GENERAL~

This piquant and sweet dish stems from the roots of Hunan Cuisine in China. Hunan Cuisine is traditionally extremely spicy and packed with smoked chilli flavours. This deep fried dish…

~ MCARABIA ~

Valencia Mackie said “never to give advise unless you have walked the walk, because anyone can talk the talk”, well conceding with her, I strongly advice you to try this…

~ ORIENTAL TIKKA BRIOCHE ~

Back in University, when I was doing my degree in English Literature, I used to love Robert Frost. One time I came across one of his quotes saying, “There is…

~BBQ SLOPPY JOES~

I believe when Craig Claiborne said, “cooking is at once child’s play and adult joy. And cooking done with care is an act of love”, he had Sloppy Joes in…

~MANDI~

William Shakespeare wrote it best, “tis an ill cook that cannot lick his own fingers”, and I bet if he ever had a chance to eat middle-eastern food, he’d be…

~ BEEF AL-FAREZI ~

This dish reminds me of Elizabeth Gilberts, Eat, Pray, Love; wherein she avers, ” ‘Parla come mangi’, It means ‘speak the way you eat’ or in my personal translation ‘say…