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My blog's focus is on Indian vegetarian cooking for diabetics. India is fast becoming the country with the most diabetes-afflicted population. I've learnt over time how to modify my cooking such that I can help maintain steady blood glucose levels. Here I share some healthy homemade recipes.
Mushrooms are my latest love, from a culinary perspective of course. It wasn't always like that, though. I hadn't ever tasted mushrooms until a year ago, when we went out for a celebratory dinner in April of last year, and turned adventurous. We v (read full article)
For a couple of years now, changing weather patterns and reducing rainfall in areas that need it the most have led to spiralling cost of basic food items. The negative inflation so loudly touted by our government seems so irrelevant to the citizens (read full article)
North and South Indian cuisines used to be plainly demarcated based on the staples they used. While the northern areas relied on wheat, bajra and jowar among other things, the southern states fed themselves on rice, ragi and coconut because of their (read full article)
The monsoons finally arrived ten days ago, albeit a bit late this year. Fears of the city's water supply drying up have now been put to rest. Wetness of the season for once is very welcome and breathing in the mossy smell of the drenched land arou (read full article)
I first learnt about different ways of spicing up rice through my mother-in-law. I don't mean that she showed me how to make these dishes since we don't live nearby, but she did once lend me a cookbook during my early marriage years and encouraged m (read full article)
For a while now grey clouds have flitted across our skies raising the hope of rains, but a month has gone by without the much sought-after downpour. Rains, this year too, have been rather elusive, reminiscent of last year. Changing weather patterns (read full article)
Dark moody clouds now overwhelm the skies, threatening to spill over. Monsoon's actually been delayed for about a month or so on account of cyclonic activities during the summer but no matter, the clouds are here. There's something impending about (read full article)
Once upon a time, tomatoes were thought to be poisonous. We need to applaud the one brave person who, knowingly or not, bit into a ripe juicy red tomato and survived the test because without this attempt we'd have deprived ourselves of delicious rec (read full article)
Over the past several weeks, in this little town of ours, there's been a developing problem that has now blown out of all proportions -- that of regular and scientific garbage disposal. The problem has become so bad that every few weeks we citizens (read full article)
The carrot is one of those vegetables that often has diabetics worrying whether it is good for them or not. However, the GI of carrots is around 47, considered low, and the glycemic load of a serving of 100 grams I found is around 3 (as per Nutritio (read full article)
Summer months are short here, lasting around two months, occasionally three if the monsoon rains are lighter than usual. However, they can be pretty intense, making up for the short duration, with temperatures soaring to 42 degrees during the aftern (read full article)
During the rare occasions when we've had to eat out during our travels to our hometown, I've come across this particular combination quite a few times: that of beetroot and black-eyed beans cooked together in a simple curry. I don't know if this has (read full article)
I came across this version of palak paneer when eating at a rather classy restaurant couple of years ago at a celebratory dinner. We rather enjoyed the rich taste of it though it did blow a hole in the pocket. And of course I had to try and reprodu (read full article)
Light dinners have become a norm here at home. It is so easy to get used to, and we wake up feeling fresher than we would've if we'd had a full-blown two- or three-course meal complete with dessert for the night.Having said that though, even light f (read full article)
Beetroot has been one of those vegetables on my list of uncertainties that has caused me to vacillate between "avoid" and "don't avoid." Beets are notoriously rich in sugar, and were prized for this very property in the 19th century. The glycemic i (read full article)
The markets here are now flooded with deliciously crunchy fresh cucumbers. There is nothing more mouthwatering when the sweltering heat of the summers here hit you. Whenever I see stacks of fresh green cucumbers at the market, I tend to buy them in (read full article)
In one of her cooking episodes, Kylie Kwong states that though Australia has its share of Chinese fried rice recipes, it isn't quite done properly; some odd bits of ingredients such as peas ('frozen, not even fresh,' she exclaims!) and corn and capsi (read full article)
A slow change caused by awareness is occurring in supermarkets, at least noticeable to me. Store shelves are beginning to fill up with more whole grain options. At one point, over a year ago, I had to go out of my way to buy and stock whole grains li (read full article)
The summer heat is already hitting us now. Winter this year was all too brief and intense, and I sure hope the summer would go on quickly too this time, if not intensely. I always was a person who loved our winter chills better than the summer heat. (read full article)
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