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My Culinary Journey as a Home Chef

We are told "live life to the fullest", and I am here to just do that. My culinary journey serves as a vessel to protect my passion and clue in my readers as to what inspires me in this insane world. So sit back, relax and read on ....

Cooking for me is a leisure hobby, loaded with passion. Coming from a non F&B background, the dishes I recreate or invent are put in together with my extensive travels, reading resources on different cuisines and inputs from foodie friends. Cooking for me is never a mundane chore but a charm, which I recreate each time I put on my cooking apron.

It is my privilege to share my passionate home cooking journey with you all

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Sourdough Bread

Jan 22
5 min

Sourdough Bread

Sourdough bread is made by using freshly fermented dough with wild yeast or levain. The outside of the bread is crusty while inside it is chewy with a much developed taste. Sourdough bread is quite tough to understand simply because, one has to follow the touch and feel of a wet dough than a recipe to the T. I am saying this out of my own experience. My first try was a total failure, second was moderately ok and the third attempt that I am sharing today is a much better one.

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Cranberry & White Chocolate chips coffee cake

Dec 3, 2020
3 min

Cranberry & White Chocolate chips coffee cake

Cranberry and white chocolate coffee cake is a perfect cake for the month of December. Cranberry cake is a coffee cake and can be perfect anytime, just as tea cakes are with tea. Cranberries & White chocolate chip cake with a cheese cream frosting and generous drizzle of cranberry and chocolate chips makes me say - Hey! Tis the time to be jolly 🎶..And that’s how I felt when I was baking this cake. The recipe was shared by a friend and with lot of initial reluctance to try, I

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Dal Pakhwaan

Oct 6, 2020
3 min

Dal Pakhwaan

Dal Pakwaan is a most popular breakfast dish in the Sindhi community. Flat crisp flavored bread (pakwaan) served with a spicy dal is a very unique combination for breakfast. I have been wanting to have Dal Pakwaan for some time now. Dal Pakhwaan was a regular thing in India for me. It is very popular and widely available in restaurants. There are specific places in Mumbai that offer it. Also in Pune that has a prominent presence of Sindhi community in the suburbs and l enjoye

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Shepherd's Pie

Sep 30, 2020
2 min

Shepherd's Pie

Shepherd’s Pie is a classic Irish mince pie, cooked with veggies and topped with creamy mashed potato. The last time I made shepherd’s pie, I ended up with cottage pie since beef mince was used and that’s an English dish. Today l made with lamb mince, and with a long weekend ahead,brunch was Shepherd’s pie. Turned out absolutely fantastic and delightfully delicious:) A very simple dish to make, in one pan and super easy . In today’s recipe, I have used goat cheese as my twis

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Moussaka

Sep 22, 2020
3 min

Moussaka

Moussaka is a Greek dish with variations found in Middle East and North Africa. Layers of veggies, meat and a delicious Béchamel sauce topped with parmesan cheese is ultimate food love and makes it a perfect treat for taste buds. Moussaka or musakka is pretty easy to prepare. All you need is 2hrs at hand and a desire to multi task to make this dish a total success. Just as it was today for me. I didn’t make Béchamel sauce because we get it in a ready made packet, that needs t

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Donuts Filled with Jam

Sep 21, 2020
3 min

Donuts Filled with Jam

Donuts that are filled with jam, soft, airy with sugary bites are just a fantastic way to enjoy a casual coffee or tea on the go. I have been wanting to try making donuts but the deep fried idea made me rethink, rethink and rethink! No..don’t think me as the calorie conscious hippie, I don’t count anymore :) It's because I am not very fond of deep fried donuts. Nor the heavily glazed coating with frosting or sprinkles. When I asked my baker friend if there was any such recipe

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Parsi Mutton Pulao

Sep 4, 2020
4 min

Parsi Mutton Pulao

Pulao is an any day biryani. A one pot meal, though many pots are needed for today’s Parsi Mutton pulao to call it so 🙂 What I love about Parsi Pulao is the whole process of assembling the mutton, potatoes, rice, koftas and eggs. Like putting a jigsaw puzzle together to see a fantastic result.Though not heavily spiced , but definitely a heavy filling tasty pulao, just how food should be! Parsi pulao has been my favorite since childhood days. I actually took the effort to ma

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Kerala Mutton Curry

Aug 28, 2020
2 min

Kerala Mutton Curry

Kerala cuisine is one of my favourites. I love the simplicity of fresh ingredients used and the flavors that gets infused. Fresh coconut or coconut oil, abundant use of ginger adds a lovely aroma and taste. The very unique way to caramelize onions that imparts a very different taste and texture is one of my favourites. Not to forget the liberal use of black pepper powder and curry leaves are just fantastic. Today, inspired by the flavors, textures and taste of the above descr

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Bagel 🥯

Aug 26, 2020
3 min

Bagel 🥯

Bagels - a popular bread that has gone through many transcultural changes over the centuries. From a Polish invention to Jew-Polish invention to a Jew bread to a popular American bread. So many interesting angles and yet the bread with a hole has retained its special charm on dining tables, atleast for me! For quite sometime I was pondering over the thought of making bagel at home. Although I can buy them across the counter easily, but since I am all for homemade, thought why

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Salli Boti

Aug 23, 2020
3 min

Salli Boti

Parsi Cuisine is one of my favourites. I am very used to eating dhansak, patrani macchi, dhan dar patio, cutlets, lagan nu custard or salli boti/marghi etc, since my school days. I have some fantastic friends who are Parsi and we have bonded so well over decades now. Most of the recipes I share or shared are with inputs from them. Even before Navroze, I have been planning to make Salli Marghi but the idea to hunt down salli (potato sticks) is nerve racking. While in India, Bu

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Mexican Coffee Buns or Rotiboy Buns

Aug 6, 2020
3 min

Mexican Coffee Buns or Rotiboy Buns

Rotiboy buns or Mexican buns are sweet buns with a coffee topping and a butter filling. Soft, delicious and sweet buns that are perfect with hot Coffee! Mexican buns are originally invented in Malaysia and the word 'Mexican' perhaps is because of a similar bread in Mexico. However since I had this long back in Malaysia at Rotiboy which are the original creators of this sweet bun, I prefer to see it as Malaysian buns. These buns are really very delicious.Best to have it fresh.

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Turkish Yoghurt Soup or Lebeniye Çorbası

Aug 3, 2020
2 min

Turkish Yoghurt Soup or Lebeniye Çorbası

Turkish Lebeniye Soup or locally known as Lebeniye Çorbası is one such soup that is a meal in itself. And no doubt it is one of my favorite soups ever since I had tasted it for the first time. Of course back then I was not so patient with cooking! Once upon a time there was soup that was bland, tasteless and boring. And that’s how soups were seen earlier. Now we have some fantastic soup options from around the world that are more delicious than the mains itself!! Now that I c

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Cornmeal Rolls/bread

Aug 3, 2020
3 min

Cornmeal Rolls/bread

Cornmeal rolls or bread was another beautiful one l attempted and pulled off so well. Very soft, airy and fluffy bread that is perfect for breakfast or with soups too. I have used a white cornmeal or maize meal that is not the yellow ones that is traditionally used in making polenta. Cornmeal has no gluten so by itself it won’t do for a bread, so I have mixed it with strong bread Flour. Since I bought a huge packet of cornmeal to be included in my diet, I thought of using it

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Mutton Dum Biryani

Aug 1, 2020
3 min

Mutton Dum Biryani

Biryanis are of many types. And I personally upped it by even making dry fish biryani (click here for view). But today being EID Al Adha, I decided to come up with Mutton Biryani or Gosht Biryani. Packed with lots of flavours and a lot of additional ingredients. Additional, because I love to play around with my ingredients :)So why not experiment?! Today I added potatoes to my Biryani, which is a very unique ingredient from the Eastern part of India. Originally biryani is wit

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Dark Chocolate Mousse

Jul 25, 2020
2 min

Dark Chocolate Mousse

Dark, silky, velvety smooth and delicious texture in a bowl. It has to be Chocolate Mousse!! For few days l have been wanting to make Chocolate Mousse ...Call it a break from breaking the oven baking bread :) or sweet tooth that has been quite active, even if some are chipped :) l wanted the right kind of chocolate for the mousse, and advantage of being a morning person, I rushed to the supermarket, even before they open ...they were 5mins late today ;) and picked up stuff to

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Kabob Koobideh - Persian Kebab

Jul 24, 2020
2 min

Kabob Koobideh - Persian Kebab

Kabob Koobideh is another favourite Persian dish that I absolutely love. These are juicy kebabs that have minimal spice, yet stimulates the taste buds to have one more or say over eat!!😁 It is the weekend and a relaxed day. So I like to look back into my archives that has loads of recipes. Some collected out of curiosity and some because I just want to enjoy that dish. Kabob or kebab Koobideh falls in the later classification. Kabob Koobideh is kebab made using fatty beef mi

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Mediterranean style Mezze Platter

Jul 18, 2020
3 min

Mediterranean style Mezze Platter

A simple Mediterranean style mezze platter can never go wrong if one plans to have a light meal or make mezze a part of a hosting dinner. It's easy and yet quite impressive! :) Mezze are snacks or pre-dinner bites or tapas like food. It can be hot or cold. I chose the latter one just because it is so convenient to prepare well ahead of meal time. Personally for me, Mezze is a meal in itself. They are pretty light but filling at the same time. To prepare a mezze spread popped

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Cheese bread or Cheese Bread Rolls

Jul 5, 2020
3 min

Cheese bread or Cheese Bread Rolls

I have been baking my own bread since the world was hit by the pandemic we are in. Even though l still have access to breads in the supermarket, baking my own bread is actually a way of being positive along with a bit of physical workout, if kneading by hands. Baking own bread gives you so much insight into how things need to be. Positive, creative and delicious too. Just as how life should be treated. I have found so much of therapeutic element in baking that it has become a

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Kat Vadas - A real Maharastrian treat for tastebuds

Jul 14, 2019
3 min

Kat Vadas - A real Maharastrian treat for tastebuds

Having grown up in Maharashtra, which is a region with so many ethnic foods. I realized it once I was not staying in Maharashtra. Having said so, growing up with few of the delicacies like the vada pav, kanda bhaji, zhunka bhakar, there was cousin of Misal Pav called as Kat vadas :) Now don't quote me on the family tree that I draw, but it is just how I relate to food that I like. Both look similar in colour and texture yet so different After many years, Kat Vada just popped

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