When I saw this recipe online on Martha Stewart’s website, I knew I had to try it. If you are following my blog, you will find a lot of eggplant dishes. As I read this recipe, I knew this would be a perfect winter soup. However, I wanted to use the lovely heirloom tomatoes and…
Vegan Carrot halwa
This recipe was posted in February 2017. I am reposting some of my old but true and tested recipes. Carrot is a very versatile vegetable. You can make stir fries or curries, salads, carrot cake or baby food. When I was a kid, I was told to eat carrots. I was told that it is…
Leftover Fries Frittata
What would you do with leftover fries? You could fry it again or crisp it in the oven, or make a frittata. I have made frittata before with noodles, mushrooms or sliced potato. When I googled ideas for leftover fries, I saw ideas for frittata. Threw in a few things together and a dish is…
Peach Cobbler
I bought some beautiful peaches from the farmer’s market. I used some for salads and made a dessert with the rest. It is a really easy dessert to whip up. I don’t know why I never made this before. This recipe has no eggs, so a good dish to make if you want an egg-free…
Roasted Tomato Salsa with Chipotle Peppers
More than a year ago, I ate a chipotle sauce at Sancho’s in Bangalore. The sauce was really good and I wanted to recreate that dish. Since I could not get my hand on chipotles, I never got to trying it. I cannot remember the exact taste of the dish or even what the exact…
A Burger By Any Other Name
So you all must have heard of the plant based burgers – beyond burger and impossible burger, they look like meat, taste like meat but are not meat. This is a big hit across the world especially for meat eaters trying to give up meat. Just recently, I heard on the news that soon in…
Sea Salt Hand Scrub
Last month, we visited a brew pub which had a scrub made up of hops, lemon and salt. I came home and wanted to replicate it. The coconut oil moisturizes and the salt exfoliates the skin. The sea salt should be coarse but not too big. You can use regular salt too. I used lemon…
Vegetable Fried Rice
After a long day at work, a quick, easy and satisfying meal is always welcome. This would be one of those 30-minute meals, if you have left over rice. I planned to make this meal the previous day, so made the rice the previous night. If you have the time you cna chop vegetables ahead…
Vegan Pad Thai
This is a weekday meal which you can make in 30 minutes. An easy meal to make after a long day at work. This recipes uses tamarind. Tamarind is extensively used in Asian cooking. It is a fruit and when ripe is slightly sweet and very tart. These trees are not usually seen in cities…
Chai With Preethi 