cooking
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Baking Profiteroles
Do you know about profiteroles? If not, then you’ve definitely heard of eclairs, right? It’s one of my favorite french desserts where hallow pastry is stuffed with cream and then drizzled with a rich chocolate sauce. Yumm-aa! Asha, Arjun, and I cranked out a few profiteroles recently to surprise Devang for his brithday. This is…
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Making Roti with Asha
Growing up with a mom and an older sister who are excellent cooks, means that my strength lies in three things when it comes to Indian food – eating, cleaning-up, and making roti.
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Chopsticks Tuesdays
For a long time now, I have tried in vain to crack the code for a reliable weekly meal-plan that puts dinner on the table without wasting my time and sanity. Working against me are 1. our collective love for cereal and peanut-butter-jelly sandwiches, 2. our inability to like anything permanently (except pizza).
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When Life Gives You Lemons
Here is a great snack to accompany your inauguration viewing party today. Not quite lemons exactly, but these dried orange slices dipped in dark chocolate, are a good reminder of the good things in life that continue to be.
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Snowy Weekend!
Snow these days seems like such a rare commodity (compared to living in Chicago). This Saturday though, we woke up to what felt like a pretty serene winter wonderland, and the kids couldn’t have been more excited. Even so, it always makes for an interesting time since it is way too cold to play outside for…
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An attempt at making Risotto
This weekend got away from me. I had plans to relax. I had plans to read the Sunday NY Times. I had plans to read my book. I had plans to go to the Art Institute. I had plans to paint. But I got caught up in the usual grind and that was that. The…
The Antibland Chronicles 
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