Let’s celebrate Meatless Monday with this fantastic Vegetable Curry Ellie Krieger, the host of Public Television’s  “Ellie’s Real Good Food”, is an expert on healthy eating.  A graduate of Cornell and Columbia Universities, she holds degrees in Clinical Nutrition from both. Her claim to fame…

Of all the beautiful places I’ve ever been to, Bali stands out. Today’s Lemon Rice recipe is as rich and flavorful as this magical island itself.  It combines the crunch of peanuts, the heat of two chillis, a hint of curry, a dash of onion,…

Diwali started on the 14th of November this year.  And since it lasts 5 days, celebrate it tonight! Diwali, a festival of lights celebrated widely by Hindus, Jains, and Sikhs, has a lovely premise: It symbolizes the spiritual “victory of light over darkness, good over…

Chef Floyd Cardoz and one of his dishes . Homage to Chef Floyd Cardoz whose passing stunned the Culinary World As many of you know,  the Culinary Arts lost one of its own this week. The Coronavirus took the life of Floyd Cardoz. New York…

Andrew’s sister Lauren is never one to run out and spend a fortune on food. So it came as a surprise to me when she extolled the virtues of a $9.00 tin of Curry Powder.   Of course, it was not just any curry powder.  It…

After I published this post, I shared it on Jonell Galloway’s Facebook page “Culinary Travel by Jonell Galloway, The Rambling Epicure”.  One of  Jonell’s readers got involved when I mentioned the multiple spellings of “biryani” and Jonell asked whether it was the English spelling of…

Promises of “Curry in a Hurry” have mostly left me cold.  They led to soupy curries with no real character. Or they involved a collection of Indian spices that would overtake the capacity of any spice rack I’ve ever owned.  So when I came across…

Cauliflower Steak with Herb Salsa Verde Indian Spiced Cauliflower It’s Cauliflower season here and great heads of the vegetable are stacked high in our supermarkets and on our On-street vegetable stands.   If you remember Cauliflower as a somewhat tasteless vegetable, you’re likely familiar with the…

I love Indian food.  Its intriguing blend of exotic spices and flavors are so distinctive and so transforming that it really does represent a cuisine far from our own American classics.  Take this dish from Bon Appetit.  It transforms the simple and inexpensive Chicken leg…

Inspiration and Photo Courtesy of The New York Times and Sarah Ann Ward Suvir Saran         The moment the thermometer drops below 60 degrees, I cannot wait to put some Indian food on the table.  This makes very little sense since the…

A Fusion between Indian-inflected Spices and Great Canadian Beef           This was one of the first posts I published back in 2010 when I started to blog.  Because my readership was nowhere near what it is now, I should not have…

         While we’re all anxiously awaiting Spring, Winter weather is still in our forecast.  Cold temperatures and Indian-inflected dishes seem made for each other.  This dish, which appeared in last month’s Bon Appetit, really drives that point home.  It’s a rich stew full of…

            If you are thinking “native American”, this recipe probably wouldn’t raise an eyebrow.  But we’ve long since stopped calling Native Americans “Indians”.  No, the name of this dish refers to the Asian sub-continent of India.  And that may be even more surprising.  The…

         One of the great joys of cooking for me is finding flavor combinations that work together beautifully even though they come from completely different cooking traditions.  That’s what this dinner does. It takes a wonderful Cajun dish from Bon Appetit  full of shrimp and…