This is a very common recipe in northern India. This is basic meat “curry” – the way meat is most commonly cooked in homes every day, with no frills or fancies. I’ve described the procedure in some detail for people (like myself) who don’t know much about the kitchen and prefer to have everything spelled [...]
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Rice is one of the easiest things to cook, but many people are afraid of it because they’re turned out overcooked soggy mushy rice in the past, and don’t know how to fix that. The problem is that there are so many recipes available for such a simple thing, and all of them are different. [...]
This is a recipe I’ve been using for a while. I sort of came up with it on my own, after tinkering with various recipes I found on the web. It’s very similar to a lot of “tempered” dal recipes found in cookbooks, but the spices have been adjusted to my own tastes. If you [...]
I have some basic recipes in this blog – here’s how to cook rice, and here’s one for making Indian style black beans. It’s my attempt to make cooking approachable to someone completely unfamiliar with cooking. This is the state in which I found myself some years ago, when I first moved out of the [...]
This line of thought was provoked by an article I read talking about the importance of cooking food in the development of modern humans. I’ve come across a number of articles that talk about the importance of a change in diet in human evolution. The theory is that human diet suddenly improved dramatically, and this [...]
Black beans, or turtle beans as they are sometimes called, are my favorite kind of beans. I was in Miami for a while, and ate a lot of Cuban black beans and rice, which is delicious. I like the beans + rice combination, since it’s a great protein source, and the beans and rice complement [...]
I’d like to start by saying that I am a great fan of Indian food, specially north Indian styles, such as Mughlai, Awadhi, Kashmiri, etc. I am lucky enough to live in a city which has lots of Indian restaurants, so it’s not hard to get Indian food. But since I also enjoy cooking, I [...]
