The holiday season

December was a busy month; apart of S and K taking turns falling sick, there was S's school winter market to bake for, K's daycare christmas party, M's annual lab christmas party and small bakes that we do for people at our local Saturday market. The gingerbread houses were done as our annual first advent…

Fried rice

Whenever I am doing  a dish that involves rice, I always cook extra to make fried rice on a day that leaves no room for advance preparation. Today was one such day. The kids were due for a haircut...we could barely see their eyes and they could barely see where they were going! Appointment was…

A light coconut base soup

I realised that apart from the usual suspects, I didn't have a good repertoire of vegetarian dishes. I remember mom cooking all sorts of yummy (at the time the meals were met with groans) meals. So a quick call to mom and armed with vague quantities of what I needed, I was ready to introduce…

Green soup

A close friend of mine and her two kids stayed with us for a couple of days when the school holidays had just started. While preparing dinner, we had got to talking about vege-packed dishes that are easy to make and the kids would eat. (On that day we had Sambar and potato masala for…

Kitchap Chicken

The original recipe was made with lamb chops, which you most certainly are welcome to make (more on "how to" later). As lamb is quite expensive here in Berlin, I make this with chicken breasts or thighs depending on how much time (read as patience to debone the thigh...). It is one of those dishes…

Rasam

A lovely, light south Indian tomato-garlic based "soup"- for the lack of a better word. It is easy to put together and goes with a variety of accompaniments: Fried chicken, stir-fried tofu with spring onions ( our personal favourite), ikan bilis, egg, chicken masala... you name it. Eaten with jasmine rice, this is a sure…