Month: August 2017

Vegetable Stew

Vegetable Stew

  Have you ever had the good fortune of having appam and stew? An appam is a crepe made out of rice flour and coconut milk and it is dipped in a veggie coconut stew which I assume what everything in heaven would taste like. 

Fresh Blueberry Scones

Fresh Blueberry Scones

  Ever seen the cartoon where there is a pie cooling on the windowsill, fingers of aroma wafting from it, enticing Spike, making him forget that he was in the middle of pummeling Tom? If not the same, I’m sure you’d have at least seen 

Salted Caramel Sauce

Salted Caramel Sauce

  I came across this recipe only after I came to the US. There was this gorgeous photo of salted caramel dripping out of a mason jar that I lusted after until I couldn’t take anymore. I ran to the co-op and picked up everything 

Almond Salted Caramel Cupcakes

Almond Salted Caramel Cupcakes

  The first time I made these cupcakes was because my roommate, Preetha convinced me to sign up for the Graduate students cupcake competition. This was my first year and I had just started baking. In fact until I came to the US, I had 

Warm Cherry Pie

Warm Cherry Pie

Have you ever tried packing in a hurry? I’m a planner and I’m not that good at last minute packing, as evidenced by last weekend when I packed in-between running our errands and getting our car fixed. Which would explain why I forgot the pie 

Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes

Lemon Blueberry Cupcakes

  Cherries and berries! Don’t you just love the summer season? You walk into the market and the first thing that greets you is boxes and boxes of red, blue, and black. Needless to say, this season I’m obsessed with cooking with cherries and berries 

Thai Red Curry

Thai Red Curry

  Recently, my roommates and I were invited to spend the weekend in a cabin in the woods in Peru, Maine. The friends who invited us has three dogs, along with our rescue, Red, makes four. A large part of the weekend was spent keeping 

Egg Puff

Egg Puff

  In India, bakeries are a dime a dozen. There is one on every street corner and they sell yummy baked goods at a very cheap price. Down south and especially in Chennai, my hometown, these bakeries are attached to a tea/coffee/fresh juice shop and