Recent content by shantihhh

The Awadhi cuisine to me is very special, but so is Hydrabadyi dishes. I love Indian food and love creating meals of the various regions. Fortunately I can get most of the ingredients here in the SF Bay Area as we have a very large Indian population and thus many Indian markets.:chef: You...

Obe of my favouites is the old Awadhi recipes. I make several of these. They take an entire day and can often contain a total of 4 or 5 masalas totaling 30+ spices. Obne Some very difficult to find. For instance Lazzat-e-Taam contains 25 spices/ingredients and it is just the finishing...

So true, not only does every dish vary by region but every cook as everywhere in the world will be different. That is the delight of cooking it is always an evolution and if it weren't it would be boring. Depending on our moods, the ingredients which deped on the weather and terrior it will be...

Do you make the Portugese bread they serve with Pav Bhaji? I know I can get a Tandoor but they are over $1000. I do a great Tandoori chicken on the smoker. The taste is amazing. It's just that Tandoor-real tandoor Indian Pomfret is amazing. Well you know. The way the heat instantly sears...

These all sound so good, I am picking tomorrow hoping for a big harvest at my alottment plot where I grow most of larger peppers.

yellow banana peppers In the Balkan countries they slice them for salads with tomatoes and cucumbers very nice. You also can stuff them with ground lamb and beef with rice Sarma style. Or as mentioned above-very tasty in besan batter and fried.:chef:

When you eat more legumes your body becomes use to them. I use asafetida (Indian resin related to fennel) in legumes and it does help. You can buy this in a small container in powder form at all Indian makets. It stinks but the odor goes away when cooked-you use a tiny bit. It then takes on...

I prefer using chopped roasted (raw peanuts fried in dry skillet) and date palm sugar and fresh minced chiles for this sauce as they do in Thailand.

I don't like talapia as it is very bland compared to Indian Pomfret. Wow you have a Tandoor? You are very lucky. The only place I know that does tandoor pomfret is Monsoon masala in Pleasant Hill, CA. Of course in Delhi it is easy to find. I am amazed you have a Tandoor, what size is it...

Ate at a new and terrific Indian restaurant today in Pleasant Hill, CA. I had a Tifin lunch and it was yummy. I am so excited as they also do Pomfret Tandoor (whole) and paj Bahji! We'll be going for dinner soon for sure. There used to be a place in NYC that did Tandoor Pomfret, but I do...

Love Indian food and have been cooking it since I was 18. I hve been to India 30+ times in the last 20 years. Love all the cuisines of India-love hot and spicy. Shanti, VP Community ifood.tv | Food Video Recipe Community one of the best Indian recipe sites-free

:chef:One of my favourite sites for Indian recipes with many instructional videos and phots is ifood.tv | Food Video Recipe Community :lol:

:chef: I'll ask Milka about Kupus, she was a chef at a huge hotel in Croatia. If I don't answer for a few it means daughter is having the baby-their secondf, a little sister for Marko.

sorry:chef: if I sounded heavy on the Eastern Europe thing and Balkans, have been there, have a son-in-law and famly from there-much history. They fled Croatia came to the US via 6 years in Kosovo after a very comfortable life in Croatia. Family had been there for 300 years-but religion split...

Eastern Europe The former Yugoslavia was NOT behind the Iron Curtain, it was Socialist and NOT Communist. Tito played the political balance quite well buring from the West and selling to the East i.e. Russia. I have always sort of considered The Balkans Eastern Europe but Greece is part of...