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Fried Hilsa Goodness

I fried up some Hilsa, because I didn’t want to cook it the way Hilsa should be cooked… That is not fried… cooked in Mustard paste. I just wanted to cook something different. Just as you would cook a Rohu Kaalia. The good thing about Hilsa, is that it cooks really fast, so don’t wait [...]


Hawkins Pressure Cookers

I am a big Fan of Hawkins Pressure cooker. Its fortunate for the Hawkins company, that it is only Indians who has to have a pressure cooker in his/her kitchen. If pressure cookers were as necessary to any other form of cooking as it is to Indian cooking, Hawkins wouldn’t have been the market leader [...]


Tindora and Can help reduce Blood Sugar, good for Diabetic

I first cooked and blogged about this tindora recipe more than a year back. OK, But what is Tindora? Tindora is a type of gherkin, which is also known as Kundru in U.P. Tondli/Tendli in Maharashtra, Ghiloda or Tindora in Gujarat and Kovaikai in Tamil, Dondakai in Telugu, Tondekayi in Kannada, Telakuch in Bengali, and [...]


Chicken Masala Dry and Tasty Gravy

Sorry for the delay. I am back after a long time, and I cooked this dish about a year back. But then, I know all my recipes by heart. The gravy is onion based with some tomato. I never get excess with the tomatoes, so it was low on the tomato and the gravy was [...]


Free Grocery Cards

Just wanted to let you know about this great $250 grocery gift card offer which will be shipped to you by Fedex for answering a couple of grocery shopping habit related questions. It works on a lot of stores including Whole Foods, Fresh Market, Winn-Dixie, Giant Grocery, ShopRite, Stop & Shop and Safeway. Check out [...]


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