This is a great dish that Mr. B and I like to eat for breakfast, although they were originally introduced to me as a dessert. We bake them with the skin on, which acts like a jacket to keep the moisture in, in addition to giving you your much-needed fiber. Eating them with the skin …
‘Good food is very often, even most often, simple food’. Anthony Bourdain This is an easy, one pot dish. It was made by my grandma on fasting days, as it does not contain onions or garlic. Onions and garlic are seen to excite the mind and so are often omitted when fasting. If you have …
‘The one thing you can change is how you treat yourself, and that one thing, can change everything.’ For me eating well is part of self-care and self-care is self-love. My relationship with food wasn’t always great. At one point I used to restrict my calorie intake to 500 calories a day, at another I …
‘No one who cooks, ever cooks alone. Even at her most solitary, a cook in the kitchen is surrounded by generations of cooks past…’ This is a collaboration between granny and me. She used to make this dish when I was a child. The only switch I made was to sub in sweet potatoes for …
‘You are what you digest’ Kitchari is easy on your digestion. Giving your digestion a much needed break, helps you absorb the nutrients in the food at a higher rate and so boosts your body function and immune system. Quinoa Kitchari is a revelation. You get a complete protein from the Quinoa, with added lentils …
I love Okra…now, but growing up with my grandma, she used to call these ladies fingers and so I refused to eat them. Ladies fingers are Okra, also known as Bhindi in Hindu. On the inside Okra has seeds (making it technically a fruit) and is a little slimy, which puts people off. However, it …
