Strawberries come into season between November and March every winter in India. One of the best ways to put those strawberries to use (short of just eating them, of course)…
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Today, Magic Marinade turns four. I decided to commemorate this with a redesign of the entire site, and a special dessert that has been a long time in the making.…
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The last week has been amongst the most stressful ones I've been through this year. It had started to reach a point where I felt like the stress was starting…
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The Pineapple Upside-down cake was never my favourite sort of cake. Most of the time it'd be dry or overtly sweet, and somehow, cooked pineapple was never something I was…
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I bought the most average plums of the season the other day. They were lush and dark, and quite firm (most lush and dark plums that are purchase-worthy ought to…
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Inertia and procrastination have kept me from posting here for a while now, but I plan to fix that this month. I've always wondered how many people out there actually…
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I haven't set any major resolutions this new year, but I reckon starting the year off with a post (a strawberry and chocolate laden one at that) is probably a…
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I've been looking for a recipe for a good boozy chocolate cake for a while now. Not the ones with a 'hint' of brandy or vodka or rum, but one…
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Many recipes (especially custards and lemon tarts) call for the use of multiple yolks, but most of these recipes aren't thought through completely, and end up with large amounts of…
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Today is Onam. Though I'm not cooking up a hardcore Onam lunch, designed to knock the persons experiencing it into a food coma, I decided to make something that to…
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Cherries are now in season here in Bombay (and possibly other parts of the country too). I've never been a big fan of Indian cherries as they always seem to…
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I had a massive chocolate craving last week, which I decided to satiate with these salted caramel tarts. I'd picked up this really nice Valrhona 70% dark chocolate (with little…
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