At the beginning of the year, I started thinking about signature dishes: the food you keep going back to over and over again, that you might pull out for the odd dinner party (pre-Great Global Upheaval), or for a just-because nice occasion. I asked this question of my siblings. What were their signature dishes? And,…
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pardon my turkey day food coma
Well, that and The Great British Baking Show (Yesss Peter!), both of which distracted me from humblebragging much, much earlier about our Thanksgiving Day* spread. A spread that fed three of us on the night, and then for two days after, even though we’d halved and quartered recipes and chosen others meant for two. American…
diwali 2020 was lit
Happy Diwali! For those of you who don’t know what Diwali is, it’s the Indian New Year, celebrated by, well, a pretty large chunk of the world. Yes, we observe a different new year, because the Hindu and many other South Asian religions follow a lunisolar (don’t ask, I don’t entirely get it myself) calendar…
mom’s famous pindi chhole
I have a fuzzy memory of this one time my dad asked my mom to make chhole for the millionth time. In my family, “chhole”, or channa, simply meant the gravy-simmered chickpea dish you generally see in Indian restaurants (fast food and regular), paired with bhature, the maida-based fried puffy bread, and sliced (not chopped,…
pass the pepper 