A Modern Cantonese Dish: Beef With Mango

Cooking is not always an easy thing for me. Which sounds bizzare, since I spend large chunks of my life cooking for myself and others. And then, when I am not cooking, I am thinking about cooking, reading about cooking, writing about cooking or taking photographs of food. But some nights, I just really have […]

Sabz Kofta in Rich Curry Sauce

Two of my favorite Indian vegetarian dishes are malai kofta and sabz kofta; malai kofta is a vegetable kofta made with cheese mixed with mashed or grated vegetables and bread crumbs, and sabz are kofta made from grated vegetables mixed with garbanzo flour, also known as besan. (Kofta are little balls of meat, cheese or […]

Zak’s Favorite Curry: Mattar Paneer

Last week was the first time I ever made Zak’s favorite curry, mattar paneer, which is Indian cheese with peas. Now, I love Zak, very, very much. But I never bothered with his favorite curry, because I never really much liked it myself, and here is why: I really dislike peas. Or, rather, I used […]

Peppercorns, Ginger, Soy and Sugar: A Meditation

Some evenings, the simpler the dish, the better. Tonight is one of those times: too tired after being struck forcibly with a bit of unsettling news, I did not really want to cook, but I must. The lurching miasma in the pit of my belly insists that it be so. Into the kitchen I walk […]

Singing The Spice Road: Ginger-Mango Chicken

Surprises are a great deal of fun. Especially when it comes to improvising dinner. Morganna’s friend Donny was having supper with us on Friday, and I had planned to heat up some of the many leftovers we had from our vegetarian meal the night before: Dal Tarka Methi, Aloo Methi, Mattar Paneer and Sabz Kebab. […]

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