Power up with Protein rich yard beans stir fry

Protein! That ever important ingredient. If you are a vegan, I’m sure you have spent a fair bit of time trying to get more protein in your diet.  So how do the vast majority of Indians manage to get protein in food without going stir crazy, without reading food labels or without trying too hard and without…

Get healthy hair with yoga and a simple leafy cabbage coconut stirfry

‘Help! I’m losing hair, what can I do’ pleaded my friend. What to do? How was I going to help? I remembered a childhood yoga technique which a family friend told us was also popular in Chinese medicine. Whether its male pattern baldness 🙂 or greying hair, or hair loss due to a not so great…

Thanjavur Podimaas

Just in time for thanksgiving come these yummy mashed potatoes. Watch out! with sweet coconut slivers, tart lemon juice and spicy pepper overtones, this no buttermilk mashed potato dish from thanjavur is sure to tease your taste buds and quite possibly take center stage on your dinner table. Ingredients 2 cups boiled, peeled and grated white potatoes  -go…

Green beans coconut curry

There are times when improvising on age-old recipes to streamline fat content is called for. Then there are those times when hybrids simply don`t work. Today I`ll share a classic that doesn’t need any modernizing other than an oil reduction. Simple, quick to make and pretty to look at, green beans coconut curry is southern…

Delhi Cauliflower

This recipe is a nod to my time working in the UNESCO office in Delhi. My coworkers and I would share our lunches sitting on a long bench, almost something out of a Dickensian novel. I loved the vegetarian food my Punjabi coworkers brought. They in turn forbade me to bring anything other than southern…