For some time now, I have been craving Jalebis– a popular Indian sweet that is made by deep-frying a flour batter in kind of a pretzel or circular spiral shape, which is then soaked in sugar syrup. Growing up there was this ad for cooking oil that used to come on Indian television. The ad starts … Read More →
Starting this month, the Recipe Swap will be posting on the first Monday of the month, instead of the first Sunday as we did in the past. Which in turn means a clash with Group A’s Secret Recipe Club’s posting date- which is also the first Monday of the month. So I knew I had … Read More →
(This is Post 3 in the series Cooking with the Books.) I started the “Cooking with the books” series to reacquaint myself with the hoards of cookbooks I have on my bookshelf. And I am so happy that I did. All the cookbooks that I have bought (new or second hand) have been bought after … Read More →



