Sid Khullar - Chef at Large

Virtually no well spread table is complete without a good selection of alcohol. Most of us probably stay with the basics of white wine – white meat and red wine – red meat. Tell me, with what would you serve that Turkish Rakh you picked up at duty free the other day? Or perhaps your [...]

Cooking rice can take many forms; this is the simplest. Measure out a quantity of rice.

When rice is packaged, it is mixed with a fine powder, sometimes talc, to ensure it doesn’t stick together. We need to get it out of the rice. Therefore, wash the rice till the water runs clear. When done, soak [...]

I had this chess set as a kid. It was a simple foldable one, with a metal board and magnetic pieces. In the reverse, it had a backgammon board. I learnt the basics of the game, but chess continued to hold more attraction for me. That my brother went on to study the game and [...]

I’m not well today - probably the flu. But that doesn’t stop me from cooking. No siree, it doesn’t. So, after making the rice for the ‘How to cook’ series (next post), I was wondering how to use it, besides the obvious curry route.
So… chopped some spring onions and carrots and put them in [...]

Sometimes you wonder where the real world ends and the Internet begins or where the Internet ends and the real world begins. Look at it a little closely. We communicate, look for information, provide information, find jobs, conduct business, accept payments, send payments, advertise and even find mates online.
… And shopping. Let me not forget [...]

In various conversations with various people over time, I find many people look at cooking, even occassional cooking, as a tedius chore, that needs to be finished off as quickly as possible. I agree all of us are entitled to our own perceptions about things; however, since cooking is something all of us encounter at [...]

I’m sincerely amazed. I just learn that Cher, who incidentally is one of my favorite singers, is sixty one and still going strong! There’s a new show coming up in Caesars Palace, Las Vegas, where she replaces Celine Dion and is back on the stage with vengeance. On doing a little bit of research, you’ll [...]

Hello All,
I’ve just bought a new camera and I can’t stop grinning, looking at it every few minutes and occasionally patting it. Seriously, when I look at it, I smile. How much lower can you sink than that. Much lower I say… lets see what symptoms I exhibit over the next few days.
Its an SLR [...]

The Internet has opened up so many different ways of making money, that there’s a little economy out there. Seriously, have you thought about the number of ways people make a living off the Internet? We have online stores, consulting, blogging, advertisements and content writing among others. And of course, the massive site-economies that support [...]

We visited Sbarro this past weekend. Sometime in the future, we may visit snake infested amazonian jungles when bored, jump off cliffs with bedsheets and attempt to fly and perhaps even sit on the kerb and count the number of men with moles on their noses.
However, you will probably not see us at Sbarro again.
It’s [...]