I run a small but tasteful home-based dessert business through the year, though I currently only cater within my city, Ahmedabad. Cakes, chocolates and mithai are on offer. If you’re interested in knowing what temptations you can buy, you can email me at meenal dot jhala at hotmail dot com.
Indian Sweetmeat Lassi
The book Lassis of India is a celebration of curd and lassi, peculiar to the Indian subcontinent and a few other countries. The author Radha Bhatia has written a warm, easy to read book that has delicious recipes of Lassis from all over India and even some from other parts of the world. Some are […]
Banana Date Bread With Lime
Today is my masi, my mother’s sister’s 81st birth anniversary. She passed away in 2013. She was a dear friend. I miss her terribly. My mom has two sisters, both older than her, Suman masi is her real sister and Raju masi is her cousin. Mom and Suman masi were very close when she was […]
Chandana Banerjee’s Queen Of The At-Home Lifestyle and Pumpkin Muffins
Chandana Banerjee’s got style and pizazz. She is after all a military wife. Her book Queen Of The At-Home Lifestyle is written for these uncertain times and don’t military queen bees understand unpredictability well, with countless postings, sometimes to places in the middle of nowhere. She gives you tips on how to create a cozy […]
The Good, Bad And Ugly, Eggless Brownie Muffins, And A Song
I’m opinionated they say. It’s always the right thing to have an opinion and not be a suppressed doormat. Here are some words that I’ve compiled listed in no particular order. They’re divided into the good, the bad and ugly. Of course, we’re not going away without a delicious recipe, so later on I have […]
Banana And Honey Teabread
I never wanted to get married, not desperately anyhow and definitely not to have kids. I love the way I am, not just child free, but single and unattached. I’ve never been able to figure out why people want to get married, and then to top it off, have kids! I think we’re doing an […]
Gujarati Style Bottle Gourd Vegetable
Have you eaten a dish that is super easy to cook, light on the tummy, healthy, and still considered a delicacy? If you haven’t try making this dish at home. The recipe was given to me by my aunt, Kishori mami. I ate bottle gourd vegetable the way only she could cook it when we […]
Breaking Bread With Rachel Carson
So the whole world is under lockdown. We’re hearing stories about how nature is rejuvenating. Birds and insects and animals are reclaiming their spaces. Whales have appeared on the Bombay coastline. Crows are showing up where I live. Spring is in the air and what a comeback she’s making when we stopped interfering. But here […]
Green Pea And Corn Soup
My friends love it and so do my neighbors. My sister and brother in law who were here from the U.S.A some time ago expressed delight over its taste. It is by no means an ordinary soup. Green pea and corn soup is a delicacy, fit to serve special invitees whom you wish to impress […]
Breaking Bread With William Saroyan
How many of you remember reading William Saroyan in school? His essay Locomotive 38, The Ojibway, appeared in our class 11th or 12th (I can’t remember which) CBSE textbook. That was the start of my lifelong love affair with Saroyan. I’ve always repented for not saving those textbooks as literary gems in my library William […]
