I know it's St. Patrick's Day but I made an Indian meal today. There are a number of  tandoori paste recipes out there but I chose this one because I had all of the ingredients and didn't have to make any substitutions. Since it's too cold to barbecue in south-western Ontario, and I don't have a BBQ anymore, I broiled the boneless, skinless chicken ( Read more... )

I haven't made this dish in ages so I'm doing a quick repost with a composite picture I shared on FB ... cause I'm a lazy person.

The recipe can be found in the original post I did, eight years ago, with credit to the blog that I found it on. I made it with regular potatoes this time, as that's all that I had, and it's what her recipe called for ( Read more... )

I came home last week with a tray of four skinless, bone-in chicken breasts and decided to include them in an Indian menu that I had planned for the weekend.

I was originally going to make a chicken curry/biryani but switched over to chicken tikka instead. Two chunks of spicy and tender chicken are often part of an appetizer combo, along with a ( Read more... )

Half an onion and four cups of stock (vegetable or chicken) form the base of both these soups. Your choice depends on whether you want the final product to be vegetarian or veggie-friendly. For some reason, both of my soups are in the orange-red colour palette ( Read more... )

PICTURE HEAVY WARNING

Summer has been much too short. Of course, I didn't get much accomplished. In fact, I can't even remember the semi-ambitious plans I had made.

Next year, I'm going to have to make and post a list of To Do's to keep me on track ( Read more... )

Between taking time off for a bad cold which started with the sore throat from .... well, you can guess, and a Friday without any calls, I've been home for six days. And doing very little cooking that I can post about.

So, this palak paneer is a stretch to be creative with very little energy.

Palak, means spinach, but the more broadly defined ( Read more... )

I know ... you're probably thinking I should rename this LJ/blog "The Sourdough Fanatic" with all the sourdough baking I've been doing. It's addictive even though, as I've said before, I don't actually like sourdough bread that much. At least not the 'artisanal' high hydration doughs with the big holes. However, feeding that jar of starter on the ( Read more... )

NOTE: I made the curry and the duck fat pastry as directed by the recipes in the links ... ok, I used water instead of vodka in the pastry cause I didn't want to waste the vodka. The filling for the pot pies started with the recipe on Allrecipes but I made some changes as briefly noted below ( Read more... )

I've mentioned my vegi-phobia over the years, so I never thought that I'd make a post about THIS.


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SEPTEMBER TEASER: English muffins and hamburger buns


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