Month: December 2017

Let me tell you my Christmas story…

Let me tell you my Christmas story…

  Two years in and I think I finally did Christmas right. How was y’all’s Christmas? Mine was simply about food, friends, and the snow. Here in Etna, we were fortunate not just to have a white Christmas, but for the snow earlier in the 

Chicken Dum Biryani

Chicken Dum Biryani

  Oh boy, do I have a good recipe for you! After Thanksgiving dinner, I was craving Indian food, something with a lot of heat. So on my next visit to the local co-op, I decided to pick up chicken. There are so many wonderful 

Mushroom Stuffed Tortellini

Mushroom Stuffed Tortellini

  Recently, I got into a phase of listening to old Hindi songs and started missing my mother. One of my cherished memories is of her in the kitchen of our old house, singing along to some Kishore Kumar song and swaying as she made 

French Silk Pie

French Silk Pie

  Recently, amidst my frustrations from job searching and onset existential crisis, I received an email that threw out all my anxiety in seconds and made me feel like a million bucks. It was someone at the library who had tasted my salted caramel cupcakes