With the festive season in full swing, make the healthy choice by switching to desserts that not just satiate your dessert cravings but also do not pile up the calories. It is that time of the year when festivities are in the air and this is the time when cheat meals come to the forefront.… Read More Healthy Sweet Tooth Indulgences
Butterfly Pea Flower is becoming the go to ingredient of choice for chefs as they discover the ingredient is as good to taste as stunning as it looks. Childhood memories always involve a warm sense of nostalgia and one such memory is my garden in the home I grew up in a quiet neighbourhood in… Read More Butterfly Pea Flower
What is common to the words Bhut Jalokia, Byadgi, Bird eye, Mundu, Kashmiri, Jwala, Guntur, and Kanthari? Well, these are varieties of red chilli – the spice you may love or hate but can never ignore. Variants Galore There is an amazing variety of red chillies available in the country and their taste and spice… Read More Red Chilli as a Spice
Seasoning your food can add a zing like no other and if there is one seasoning that can immediately change the taste of your food, the hands down winner is asafoetida. Asafoetida known as ‘food of the gods’ is a dried gum extracted from the taproot of a herb plant called Ferula which grows perennially.… Read More Everything about Asafoetida