Maybe some of you know already that the fondest cookbook in my small, humble collection is an old, now-coverless copy of Premila Lal’s Indian Recipes. Though it was reprinted in 1994 in pape… more →
Elaichi et Cetera...elaichietcetera wrote 1 week ago: Maybe some of you know already that the fondest cookbook in my small, humble collection is an ol … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 5 months ago: Of all the wonderful gifts I’ve received over the past year from fellow food-bloggers, none … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 5 months ago: This is a lovely dish from the province of Szechuan, China, with an equally loverly story attach … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 5 months ago: …wickedly-wonderfully-fragrant more like! My nose- yet three feet from the mailbox, alrea … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 6 months ago: The last few days I’ve been “laid up” with a back injury- nothing too … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 7 months ago: This is a post for one of my all-time, most-favorite “soups” in the whole world, mos … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 7 months ago: Or, dry-roasted chile-water. Except that, over several generations of cooks in Thailand, it b … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 8 months ago: A few months ago I held a quiz, and the grand winner of that rather tricky quiz was a very dear b … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 8 months ago: For those of you who read my post-Thanksgiving-Day post, you might have been left wondering what … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 8 months ago: Little Miss Muffet sat on a tuffet, eating her curds and whey; Along came a spider, who sat down … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 9 months ago: I think this dish is usually called kataachi aamti, and I would assume that this version hails fr … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 9 months ago: Yes, I know I ought to be blogging about pecan pie, mashed potatoes, Lithuanian mushrooms … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 9 months ago: If you can’t beat ‘em, join ‘em! Since I have never beaten either of these vegetab … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 9 months ago: Alright folks…first in line from the Thanksgiving spread is this humdinger of a reci … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 10 months ago: I’m thankful that we are alive… that’s really the only thing I’ve ever le … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 11 months ago: Shilpa of Aayi’s Recipes is continually making me envious by her beautiful parade of cakes, … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 11 months ago: Well, no…actually I was just browsing through one of my cookbooks and came across this reci … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 1 year ago: Well, on the third day of trying, I finally achieved fully-inflated puris! Yay! The day before, I f … more →
elaichietcetera wrote 1 year ago: Anita’s post for the Kashmiri dish, al yakhni, was, I believe, the first recipe of hers tha … more →