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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 [...]