Chef at Large

So I watched Kung Fu Panda today and I must say I loved the movie. Unexpectedly I saw so much noodle soup in the movie that I started hankering for the same. Came home and decided to make some Noodle Soup. While I was thinking about what to add and what to make I saw [...]

I just learnt that Nestle’s instant noodles product Maggi Cuppa Mania is off the market until further notice. I think the product sucked (not as much as Pot Noodles in the UK though, which sucks big time) but thats not the reason it’s been taken off the shelves.
Apparently, the owners of Yo! China felt that [...]

My love for cooking arose from the kitchens of ‘East End’, in Cannanore, where my grandmother stirred and shook and whipped up the most delicious delicacies. The kitchen was old fashioned. Wood fires burned throughout the day and my grandmother who was called Mammu, by all her grandchildren, had to blow frequently through a long [...]

Star anise, star aniseed, badiane or Chinese star anise, is a spice that closely resembles anise in flavor, obtained from the star-shaped pericarp of Illicium verum, a small native evergreen tree of southwest China. The star shaped fruits are harvested just before ripening. It is widely used in Chinese cuisine, in Indian cuisine where it [...]

This is a spicy, juicy and tangy dish that can be used to stuff your samosas, filo pastry / puff pastry parcels, sandwiches or simply eaten with hot rotis/naans.
My brother dropped in last night and sleepily expressed a desire this morning, to eat a stuffed omelette. Now, stuffed omelettes are quite passè for me, considering [...]

We had some friends over for the weekend and decided to cook something a little more interesting than the food we had been subjected to over the last couple of days [See reviews on Udupi Cafe and Taste of India].
I didn’t bother taking any pictures of this one, as it didn’t look as if it [...]

We had friends over from Madras who wanted to visit Centrestage Mall. Being vegetarians, ‘Taste of India’ appealed to them, and off we went.
Before I begin describing our visit, one thing should be clear - Taste of India is no more about food, service, quality, ambience or experience. It is purely about convenience. With the [...]

I’ve been hearing about the ‘Indian Curry’ for quite a while, from multiple sources. I’ve seen it in restaurant menus in the UK ‘Vegetables with Indian Curry’, seen it published on websites - someone asks ‘how do you make Indian Curry?’, and a kindly (uninformed) soul pops out of nowhere and shares a recipe [...]

Yesterday, for some reason, I felt like cooking something… anything spicy, in a rich gravy. Unorganized people as we are, I couldn’t find much to work on. Here’s what we ended up with - and I must say, though it doesn’t look as nice as I would have wanted it to, I loved every bite!! [...]

Browsing the net a couple of days back, I came across this programmer freelancers site, where one can hire a programmer to work for you on a project or hourly basis. One entry caught my eye. It was a gent from Delhi, who claimed to have an engineering degree along with a masters degree in [...]