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.
Masala Beans and Dishoom-From Bombay With Love
Bombay, paradise of every man and woman’s dreams. Bombay. Maximum city. The city that never sleeps. Bombay, for who the rich man dreams and the poor does too. And both their dreams do come true here! Dishoom-From Bombay With Love, an odd name for a book, and even odder one for a London based Indian […]
Empire Biscuits and Uparwali Chai
Pamela Timms’s baking wonderbook Uparwali Chai is a definite must have, especially during the festive season. She is a Scottish journalist who moved to Delhi in 2005 for a year but went on to stay there for ten years. She started a blog in 2009 called Eat and Dust which gets its name from Ruth […]
Indian Sweetmeat Lassi and Lassis of India
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 […]
Meenal Jhala 