baking
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Eat your green beans
Allow me to digress for just one second. Peanut butter, cinnamon rolls, Doritos, apple pie, lettuce, and broccoli are some of the foods that I discovered after the age of 16. Long time ago when I was growing up in India, where eggplant is brinjal, a bell pepper is capsicum, and gas is petrol (although…
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Bitter
I don’t get upset when my dentist calls to say that I owe an additional $200 because I didn’t tell them my insurance changed. I don’t get (too) upset when I forget to pick up my favorite pair of Nike Free shoes from the check-in line at the airport. I don’t get upset when the…
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Coffee Cake
Not too long ago, I had a request from Neel for a healthy coffee cake. If you’ve ever had a slice of coffee cake you know that such a request is blasphemous. The buttery cake, layered with an even more buttery crumb of walnuts, brown sugar, and cinnamon is difficult to downsize. But before a hasty…
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Sweet potato and zucchini bread
I had a dying zucchini, and a dusty sweet potato lingering around from Thanksgiving. When life gives you lemons…although, these lemons were my doing so not much to complain here. Any who… I baked a cake using my not so prime vegetables and still the resulting cake was moist and sweet. It is soft, crumbly, and screams…
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Ratatouille Pizza anyone!?
Thursday, I skipped gym and rushed home on the 5:00pm train. The plan was to get to the ratatouille before Komal did (ha!) and test my idea of using it as a topping for a pizza. I imagined a thin, crunchy crust loaded with salty capers, sliced garlic, red onions, cheese, and of course, the…
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Couscous: a quick weeknight dinner idea
After my run and metro delays, I was ravenous by the time I got home at 8:40pm. Lack of proper grocery shopping meant I didn’t have anything to just pop in the microwave. Usually cereal or a PBJ sandwich are my fall back for such situations, but tonight I wanted something hot, spicy, tasty, filling,…
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