... or Lakhnawi Khatti Dal I picked this up from Classic Indian Cookery by Julie Sahni and I first made it because I had tamarind pulp...

Honestly, I never even considered trying to tackle such a dish as Pad Thai before reading about it in Matthew Amster-Burton's Hungry Mon...

It's been quiet around here lately - unusually quiet. Since my last posting our daughter was born and we've moved again (still in th...

I'm behind here - this was something I cooked in the fall (which I'd say is a much more appropriate season for this dish). Once agai...

One day I was flipping through my copy of Diana Kennedy's The Essential Cuisines of Mexico looking for inspiration, when I noticed the ...

When I was a child one of the stories I really enjoyed was the story about the yggenyks (which are three-legged birds) stealing the round to...

I see I haven't been particularly diligent about my promise to follow up here with dishes from the bacon book I got a while back. Well,...

A certain kind of laziness has come to an end: in California, I always bought the pizza dough at Trader Joe's because it was good (and ...

I guess I was aware that canned beans are already cooked - but it certainly wasn't very much on my mind back when I wrote this post . I...

To aid us in our quest for cooking more middle eastern food, we bought another book, Claudia Roden's New Book of Middle Eastern Food ,...

This week rabbit was on sale at the supermarket so we decided to have our hand at cooking it. Having no experience with this particular meat...

Wow - long time, no blogging. The end was quite busy - especially the last 4-5 weeks when I was writing more or less nonstop. But then the e...

When I first arrived in California some 5 years ago and started examining the goods on offer at the local supermarkets I was quite intrigued...