CURRY

Quick Yellow Thai Curry – 20 Min.

January 24, 2018 By Asha Shivakumar

This quick yellow Thai curry will both impress you and leave you craving for more. It’s so easy, and you don’t even need any paste. It’s a weekly staple in our home.

If there’s one thing we would take out quite often, but I was still overwhelmed by, it was Thai food. For some reason, for years I thought making Thai curry with Thai paste was laborious. Well, making a Thai curry paste does require a few ingredients, but it’s actually quite simple as I later learned. However, on the days I run out of my curry paste and have a hankering for Thai Curry, this is my go to….

Curry Chicken Salad Avocado Boats with Cilantro cream

January 22, 2018 By Asha Shivakumar

This madras curry chicken salad avocado boats are so healthy and equally delicious, perfect with the cilantro cream. Just the right balance for the non-carb days or any day.

Curry is not a thing in Indian cuisine. Every recipe calls for a mix of spices, each family has their blend. So there’s nothing like curry, every recipe has it’s own name. There are many reasons for the word curry, you can read it HERE. Now, just for the convenience, we call it chicken curry or Andhra curry or Egg curry.…

Vegan Healthy Vegetable Dal with Kale and Yam

January 15, 2018 By Asha Shivakumar

This vegan healthy vegetable dal is filled with ton of good veggies, kale and yam and carrots. Perfect hearty meal.

We are mid Jan and I have been on a vegetable high this month on the blog and otherwise. We make many different types of dal and I’ve been fond of mixing a few different legumes for a hearty and delicious meal. Dal seems to be one of the biggest source of protein for vegetarian eaters. South Indians love their dal and this has become one is become by absolute favorite, healthy vegetable dal….

Quinoa Ven/Khaara Pongal with Gotsu

January 12, 2018 By Asha Shivakumar

The first festival of the year for Tamilians, Pongal. This quinoa pongal with gotsu is a slightly healthier alternative to the classic pongal that is usually made on this festival with rice.

Happy Pongal / Sankranti to all who celebrate!! When they say India is a land of festivals, it is true. We probably have a festival every month of the year. The crazy part is that they are not small festivals; each one is big. Pongal is a harvest festival dedicated to Sun God. It’s a celebration of the first crop. It’s celebrated over four days, each day with its own significance. You can read more about the mythology and significance behind Pongal here.…

black eyed peas and eggplant curry

January 1, 2018 By Asha Shivakumar

Black eyed peas curry with eggplant and spinach rotis, a healthy and tasty way to begin the New Year. Healthy, nutritious and extremely tasty. Happy 2018!!!

Happy New Year! Wishing you a Very Happy 2018! Hope you all have an enriched and fulfilling year ahead.

Black eyed peas is supposed to be a lucky dish to have on New Year’s. It’s a Southern tradition, and you can read the reasons behind it HERE. For us, we just love black eyed peas, and that’s reason enough to share and enjoy this dish.

And here we are, in 2018. A new year. Beginning of a New chapter.

Whatever it maybe,

Find What ignites worlds within you

Let your work, everything you create,

Be a direct extention of your heart space,

Now, more than ever,

The world needs more of our light

Go find what sparks it

And people that wholeheartedly believe in it,

And use to go out + change something.

Danielle Doby…

Spicy Chicken Fry – Andhra style

December 7, 2017 By Asha Shivakumar

I’ve always found this Andhra style hot & spicy chicken fry to be very flavorful, and a cozy dish for winters. Known for its sizzling items, full of flavor, Andhra cuisine is like none other. It’s so good.

Some of the hottest and spiciest food from South India, they say, is from Andhra Pradesh. I personally haven’t had any spicy food that I can’t handle, but for most, this would be pretty spicy, but not quite unbearable. Chicken Fry is a staple in many homes, and everyone has their favorites. Mine has to be my mom’s style pepper chicken, which is my little one’s favorite too. This Spicy Chicken fry is inspired by the cuisine of Andhra, and quickly, our pepper chicken had some competition.

HOW TO GET YOUR KID TO ENJOY FOOD

Eating food has to be a lovely enjoyable experience, not a dreaded one….

Quick Chickpea with Spinach Curry – 30 Minute Dish

December 1, 2017 By Asha Shivakumar

This quick golden-hued chickpea spinach curry is simply the perfect cozy meal on a cold evening.

Happy Friday!! Happy December!!!

The cookie and cake season is here, and I bring to you a healthy and delicious meal for those “I don’t want to cook” days, when you are too busy baking up sweet treats….

Masala and Meatballs – Pre-order Time!!!

November 2, 2017 By Asha Shivakumar

It’s finally ready!! We are so excited. Masala and Meatballs is ready for pre-order! The book releases January 2018!

HOW I FEEL AND WHAT THE BOOK IS TO ME

It’s time to celebrate. I finally feel the excitement!!

This book is my baby. It’s the moment I’ve been waiting for years. It’s my dream, that has been brewing in my mind, even before I knew how to make a cup of coffee. I don’t know which leg to stand on. It’s all too exciting, and a bit daunting. Soon, my little book will take on its own journey, across book stores and around the world. It’s been a very exciting, and wild, journey. I’ve learnt so much in the process, which has been very empowering for me.

“There are moments which mark your life. Moments when you realize nothing will ever be the same and time is divided into two parts, before this, and after this…” – Fallen (1998)…

Chicken Chickpea Cashew Curry

October 29, 2017 By Asha Shivakumar

This creamy chicken chickpea cashew curry is a warm, easy dish that goes great with a bowl of hot piping steamed rice or with some flat bread.

The feeling of moving to a new country and adapting to it’s culture, the food, their uniqueness is strange and an interesting thing. It can be quite a lonely feeling in a room filled with people, it’s quite bittersweet at times too. You try to adapt, but you speak their language, it sounds different. You still inherit all the sounds, rhythm and feeling of the your own language, the pain and beauty of the language, too. Then you stop trying. Years later, find that you naturally have adapted. You search for your identity in the midst of all this diversity. You try to hold on to your roots like a baby that holds on her mom….

Quick and Easy Harissa Chickpea Stew with Peppery Parmesan Potato Stacks

September 8, 2017 By Asha Shivakumar

This quick and deliciously easy harissa chickpea stew which is served with parmesan potato stacks is quite an impressive meal which comes together in a jiffy. Weeknight meal or to entertain with, comforting any way.

Have you ever wondered how we or the food subconsciously transitions from season to season, quite smoothly?

I woke up on this very gloomy, slightly chilly day determined to make these potato stacks….

But before anything, I had to take my darling Waffles for his leisurely morning stroll. We hiked up the mountain just to see a cast of fog engulfing the huge red building behind, almost like a blanket. He looked around, quite peacefully deciding if he wanted to chase a cow or stay beside me. Its one of those days he peacefully walked and sniffed as I was in my own thoughts.

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