a melange of recipes, cuisines and food stories and my adventures in the culinary world

Non vegetarian

Easy Fish Curry With Tomatoes

Easy Fish Curry With Tomatoes

A easy fish curry with tomatoes and cumin with a spicy and tangy flavour….flavourful and delicious with a bowl of steamed rice.

Murgh Shahjahani/ Chicken Shahjahani

Murgh Shahjahani/ Chicken Shahjahani

This delightful creamy Chicken dish is cooked with aromatic spices,cashew nut paste, yogurt and cream which give a nice smoothness to the rich gravy.

Orange and Honey Chicken …a new year special Colab with Oriya Rasoi and A Dollop of that

Orange and Honey Chicken …a new year special Colab with Oriya Rasoi and A Dollop of that

As we inch closer to the New year 2016, new resolutions are being made,hearts are filled with new hopes ,plans for reaching out for newer opportunities discussed but here I am stuck with my New Year’s Eve dinner menu.

Moroccan chicken with chickpeas and raisins

Moroccan chicken with chickpeas and raisins

My bucket list continuously keeps on getting updated,altered,contemplated and rejuvenated.And the recent update to the list is visiting the mesmerising ,awe- inspiring Morocco.Visiting Egypt was a dream of mine from as long as I can remember.Now that Egypt is tick marked Morocco is my dream destinat

Mexican Chili Con Carne

Mexican Chili Con Carne

From nachos ,tacos,burritos,salsas to margaritas traditional Mexican cuisine is bursting with flavours, texture and spice….a fiesta for the taste buds.We can never get enough of this cheesy, limy,zesty cuisine which is full of corn,beans,fresh herbs,meats and cheese.Garlic, cilantro,Cumin and chil

Sunday style Chicken Curry…a taste of the Past!

Sunday style Chicken Curry…a taste of the Past!

Food and nostalgia go hand in hand together.Just the smell wafting from the kitchen is transporting me to those childhood Sundays when my Bappa ( father) would religiously leave the house early in the morning with a bag to the fresh produce market to grab the best,fleshy,tender chicken and to avoid

Steamed Chicken with tangy Spinach and Mushroom sauce

Steamed Chicken with tangy Spinach and Mushroom sauce

I feel like ranting and raving to everybody I meet that I have started blogging AGAIN finally!I feel elated, on top of the world today while I am typing my post.Taking care of 3 kids(hubby taken into consideration) is not an easy task but then taking some time out for yourself is everybody’s birthri

Stuffed Chicken Minced Steak with Mushroom Sauce

When I decided to make this dish I had thought it would be extremely time consuming but the whole meal was ready within an hour… the meal comprised of chicken steak with herbed cheese filling ,doused with mushroom sauce and steamed vegetables with rice.This recipe is adapted from Nita Mehta’s Non veg Continental collection.90% of cookery books that I own are of Nita Mehta and till date none of her recipes have gone wrong.I learnt Continental cooking from her books and her recipes are modified to suit Indian conditions….keeping in mind the climate,taste and most important easy availability of ingredients.Her recipes have always evoked admiration and praises in my cocktail and dinner parties and I started enjoying continental cooking with confidence.So here’s a delicious and hearty meal for chicken lovers!

Pear and Rum Souffle Omelette for WBB and AFAM

Pear and Rum Souffle Omelette for WBB and AFAM

Nowadays my lunch and dinner menus are mostly based on the blog events.I had been warned by people that blogging is addictive and time consuming but no complaints …I am enjoying every bit of it.Suddenly I discovered that there are so many facts about cooking that I am unaware of and wont forget to

Turkey pomegranate salad

The memories of Aai’s (my maternal grandmother) backyard filled with trees laden with green and red fruits and Aai seperating the fruits’ arils from the skin and serving us for breakfast, the red shiny arils resembling small glistening rubies are still fresh in my mind. Her trick of separating the a



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