Category Archives: Food and Recipes
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Baby Led Weaning, How to Avoid the Mash & Pureed
Posted on April 10, 2012 by Dona in Food and Recipes, ParentingKaiya began showing interest in food around 4 months. I had wanted to wait until she was 6 months old to start her on solids, but she wasn’t willing to wait. So while we were in India we started with little tastes of the foods we were eating–curries, bananas, coconut water, lentils, oranges, grapes, papayas, [...]
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How To: Masala Dosa, Just Like in Kerala
Posted on December 10, 2011 by Dona in Food and Recipes, IndiaMasala Dosa is a quintessential South Indian dish that will make you look like a cooking genius with very little effort. Dosas are a thin, fermented pancake made from rice or lentils, and typically served with curried potatoes, sambar (lentil stew), and coconut chutney. We recently had a few friends over for a dosa night [...]
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The Taste of France from My Kitchen
Posted on June 21, 2011 by Dona in Food and RecipesI’ve been baking my way through Peter Reinhart’s Artisan Breads Everyday since I checked it out of the library about a month ago. His recipes are absolutely fantastic and utterly fool-proof. This book makes bread making look easy. Vibhu’s been asking me to make croissants ever since we had the flaky, melt-in-your-mouth pastries in Quebec [...]
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Bronx Worthy Bagels
Posted on May 17, 2011 by Dona in Food and RecipesIn my opinion, Peter Reinhart is the king of bread. His recipes are spot on and hard to mess up, but that being said finding his recipes online is a major hurdle in putting his knowledge of kneading times, sponge development, and fermentation to work. I did manage to track down his infamous bagel recipe [...]
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Gimme Some Challah!
Posted on May 12, 2011 by Dona in Food and RecipesSince I haven’t been working, I’ve gotten back into baking and perfecting the art of bread making is at the top of my list. Last week I tried a whole wheat bread that wasn’t up to par and left me feeling a bit frustrated by my efforts. So this morning, after polishing off last weeks [...]
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How To: a new feature on all things DIY
Posted on May 18, 2010 by Dona in Eco-Sustainability, Food and RecipesI’ve been on an elimination kick lately (think 100 Thing Challenge). I think it must be our impending lifestyle shift from 9-5′ers to wandering nomads. It might also be the fact that I’ve been doing a lot of reading lately about the nasty chemicals that have made our living environments toxic. Regardless, I’ve been rummaging [...]
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How To: Make a Skirt from an Old T-Shirt
Posted on April 22, 2010 by Dona in Eco-Sustainability, Food and RecipesAs I inch closer to finally shedding my overused winter jacket and donning flip flops once again, I’m admittedly a little saddened by the state of my warm weather clothing options. In keeping with the 100 Thing Challenge and my general philosophy of consuming less, I’m having a hard time justifying going out and buying [...]
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How To: Make Your Own Chewy Granola Bars
Posted on April 11, 2010 by Dona in Food and RecipesI’ve always loved Quaker’s Chewy Granola Bars. I used to eat them as a mid-afternoon snack at work, or as quick bite before a run, and always took them with me on long bike rides to prevent bonking. But won’t I don’t like is the excessive packaging. Packaged snack foods in general are some of [...]
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No-Knead Bread in 10 Minutes. Seriously.
Posted on February 27, 2010 by Dona in Eco-Sustainability, Food and RecipesAs part of our go-green experiment, I looked at what we were eating and where we could make some changes to reduce our reliance on food from unknown sources. Turns out we’re huge bread eaters, and were easily going through 3 loaves of bread every week. At $4 a loaf, thats $48 month and lots [...]
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How To: Make Chai Just Like the Chai Wallahs
Posted on February 19, 2010 by Dona in Food and Recipes, IndiaChai might very well be the heart of the Indian subcontinent. Its a tradition of boiled plant roots, bark, and seeds that has been passed down from mother to daughter to grand-daughters over hundreds, possibly even thousands of years. Throw in a healthy dose of British imperialism and you’ve got masala chai–that sweet, milky, ginger-infused tea that’s [...]
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