Vegan Roasted Pumpkin Soup

Happy Thanksgiving! One of my favorite vegetables is Pumpkin. (OK I feel like I say it every time I write about a vegetable – spinach, eggplant, mushroom, carrot …) In the west, you think of pumpkins in October and November. But in India, you cook it through the year in sambar and a lot of…

Salad Dressings and Density of Fluids

A salad dressing always heightens the taste of a salad. The simplest salad dressing is oil, vinegar, salt, and pepper. You could add honey to sweeten it or some dijon mustard. Have you noticed that when you pour oil and vinegar, they do not mix? Have you ever wondered why? I had written about density…

Roasted Beetroot and Sweet Potato Salad

There are days when all I want to eat is a nice big bowl of salad. I would not have said the same 20 odd years ago. When I first moved to Sweden, my first meal when I landed in Uppsala was a bowl of greek salad. I was astounded that my lunch was a…