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Chicken in Black Bean Sauce with Vegetables

By Sid • Jul 11th, 2008 • Category: Desserts, Healthy, Leftover Ideas, Non Vegetarian Food, Oriental Food

Cooking all three meals every day isn’t proving to be as much of a load as I thought it would be. After reaching home around 7:00pm with fresh vegetables and breads, dinner is ready in the next 1 hour. The next morning, breakfast is usually served around 7:30am with sandwiches for lunch ready by 8:15am. [...]



Curried Sausage with Vegetables

By Sid • Jun 25th, 2008 • Category: Non Vegetarian Food, Posts

I cooked this for dinner yesterday. It’s interesting what innovative dishes you come up with, when you don’t really have a choice of cooking implements or ingredients.
Looking up my inventory, I chopped up some courgettes, spring onions, potatoes, smoked sausage, mushrooms and french beans. Heated some oil, fried a little cumin seed, added some finely [...]



Sunday Barbeque

By Sid • Jun 17th, 2008 • Category: Posts

I was at a barbeque this past Sunday, very kindly invited there by Joseph and his wife Elisabeth. It was my first such experience in this country and quite nice too.
We had grilled beef steaks, mince meat kebabs, boiled jacket potatoes topped with cheese, sauteed onions and bell peppers, sauteed mushrooms, ciabatta, duck and greens [...]



What I ate on my holiday in France

By Toni Anne • Jun 14th, 2008 • Category: Posts

On the MV Bretagne from Portsmouth we find our cabin and stow our luggage.  To the restaurant for dinner but there was a long queue and we had to put our names on a list to be called when a table became vacant.  To the rear deck, with drinks - Sancerre for me and a [...]



Minestrone Soup

By Sid • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: British Food, Posts

As with most of her cooking, this soup is hearty, nutritious, healthy and filling.
No fat people in Zainab’s house - everyone here is fit and healthy, in stark contrast to my portly self. Definitely the cooking!
This soup is no exception. Filling and nutritious, it uses onions, tomatoes, leeks, carrots and green cabbage for the body. [...]



Red Onion and Mushroom Pizza

By Sid • Jun 10th, 2008 • Category: Italian Food, Posts

Another one of Zainab’s recipes (as are nearly all my posts in the last 3 weeks), this pizza combines the flavor of red onions and tomatoes.
Red onions are stronger than the normal white or yellow onions that we usually use and have a slightly different flavor as well. I don’t know why they’re called ‘red’ [...]



Grilled Pita bread and Kebab Sandwich

By Sid • May 28th, 2008 • Category: Cooking For Kids, Fast Food, Fusion Food, Indian Food, Leftover Ideas, Middle Eastern Food, Non Vegetarian Food, Posts

This is a sandwich made of leftovers.
There are so many things we can do with leftovers, rather than let them sit in the fridge nurturing new varieties of mould. Take this lovely sandwich for instance. Leftover chicken kebabs were mashed and mixed with some sliced onions and stuffed between two slices of pita bread. The [...]



Spicy Crunchy Pakodas

By Sid • May 26th, 2008 • Category: Asian Food, Cooking For Kids, Fast Food, Indian Food, Posts, Snacks, Vegetarian Food

We had these crunchy, spicy pakodas for lunch yesterday.
While not usually lunch material, they provided a nice change as pakodas are normally snack food in India. One of the most common times they’re made is when it’s raining outside. Most houses will then deep fry this delicious snack and the whole family consumes copious quantities [...]



Afghan, Lajpat Nagar, New Delhi

By Sid • May 13th, 2008 • Category: Restaurants in Delhi, Reviews

Ashwin (of MentorLink fame) took us out to an Afghani restaurant yesterday.A foodie himself, Ashwin likes finding restaurants and places to eat in little known places. “Before they start dishing out commercial crap”, are his words on the subject.
Anyhow, more of an eating house than a restaurant the way we all expect it, Afghan is [...]



Fried Pomfret - Indian Style - I

By Sid • May 12th, 2008 • Category: Asian Food, Cooking For Kids, Indian Food, Non Vegetarian Food, Posts, Seafood

During interactions with many North Indian friends, I find many are interested in trying out fish dishes at home, but they simply aren’t sure how to cook it. Most are quite comfortable with chicken and meat dishes, but with fish they’re like… pardon the pun, a fish out of water.
This dish is easy to cook, [...]