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Indian

Spiced quail breasts with bhindi gobi masala + zhoug

26 January 2012 Indian

So here’s where it all began. I was walking through the supermarket and spotted some cauliflower and thought I’d whip up a tasty treat for myself while the other half was mingling with the celebs in LA for the Gday USA launch. Nice for some. After grabbing the cauliflower I came across a tray of quail [...]

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Bhindi masala – spiced okra

25 January 2012 Indian

So we’ve gone from Indian to Middle Eastern for my “dinner for one” and now it’s back to India with this simple dish I reckon most people would like. If I can make assumptions, that is. Every time I duck over to the Fiji Market to top up the spices in my pantry I spot [...]

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Gobi masala – spiced cauliflower

23 January 2012 Indian

When my partner recently ducked over to LA for a few days for work I thought, you beauty, I can buy a cauliflower and whip it up for dinner. Yes it’s the small things that get me excited, people. Things like cauliflower, cadbury creme eggs and the crust on sourdough bread. Maybe even a bottle [...]

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Masoor dal

20 July 2011 Indian

One staple ingredient that tends to have a place in my pantry is masoor dal, otherwise known as the red lentil. It actually only becomes the red lentil after the green-brown skin is removed, revealing that bright salmon colour. This split red lentil is faster to cook and dissolves easily compared to the more wholesome masoor [...]

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Kiwi berries with shrikhand

18 March 2011 Dessert

I seriously must waft about this world with blinkers on. How is it that only just last weekend I discovered something called a kiwi berry? Perhaps because lately I’ve been zoning in on cheeses and, er, dumplings that I briefly forgot there were other options within my reach. There we were at Harris Farm Markets in the [...]

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Mirch Masala – East London, UK

12 December 2010 he eats London

For the very brief time we had in London I was glad we had a chance to catch up with our old flatmate from Pyrmont days. Vivacious Miss T lived with us for a while when she came to Oz and now that she’s back living in London it was good to catch up on [...]

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Potato & soya bean curry

24 November 2010 Indian

As I sat on the train coming home from work I had a sudden pang for a bit of spice. It’s been a while since I knocked up an Indian curry at home and with all of these ingredients on hand, even that trusty bag of frozen soya beans & a curry tree out the back, it [...]

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Chickpea curry – chana peshawari

5 July 2010 Indian

Hands up who collects recipes by tearing them from magazines or prints them from the internet and just files them away, never to be seen again? Being the semi-organised person I am, such “I like the sound of that” recipes are filed away in categorised folders where I can at least keep track of things I’ve made [...]