fenugreek

palak tofu or Indian pesto with tofu

June 6, 2011

I love palak paneer, that Indian dish of spinach and cheese, but every time I go to Indian restaurants I tend to stay away from it. There’re a couple of reasons. The first is that the color of the dish scares me a bit. So often, the spinach has that uninviting rusty grayish green shade [...]

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vegan stuffed cabbage: less drama, equal yum

March 28, 2011

This recipe is a take on stuffed cabbage drama, the delectable Macedonian stuffed cabbage dish our friends Aleks & Christian taught us to make in 2009, right before their move back to New York. Of course, that was the original drama: their relocating back East. And the fact that there were five chefs in our [...]

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aloo gobhi matar with dried fenugreek leaves

December 6, 2010

This is another delicious recipe I have adapted from the wonderful cookbook, Ajanta: Regional Feasts of India. I served it recently with a mouth-watering Kashimiri eggplant dish, badal jaam featured here back in June. I picked this recipe because we bought a head of cauliflower and inadvertently left it at the back of the fridge [...]

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Mediterranean bulgur black-eyed-pea pilaf

October 8, 2010

This recipe was adapted from VegNews, a vegan magazine I got for free at the 26th Toronto vegetarian food fair Steven and I attended recently on a trip to Canada. It attracted my attention because it uses healthy ingredients that I happen to love: bulgur, black-eyed-peas and kale. It also requires a homemade spice mix [...]

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summertime grilled shrimp with black bean & mango salad

July 12, 2009

Steven gave me this cookbook long ago called “Miami Spice” by Steven Raichlen (cute TV sort of name, I know!) I think that was back when we lived in Astoria. I never really paid much attention to it because most of the recipes call for the use of fruits: lots of fruits! Don’t misunderstand me! [...]

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