June is the month I had chosen to go on a controlled diet. And what would you know it’s here. Now the thing with me is that I can not, for the love of god, diet. See, I don’t mind slogging it while exercising, but dieting and me have just never been good friends. Earlier [...]
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Garam Masala Tuesdays: Chicken Samosas
Samosas are the quintessential Indian tea time snack. Everyone loves samosas, and when ever you crave one in India, only a few blocks away from you you will find be a guy scooping out some fresh samosas from a big pot of hot oil. Needless to say, that option is not available where we live. [...]
Posted by Shumaila on May 29, 2012
http://thenovicehousewife.wordpress.com/2012/05/29/garam-masala-tuesdays-chicken-samosas/
Pudding à la Catastrophe
I am sure if you have been around the food blogging word, the Zebra cake is something you would have come across and ooh’ed and aah’ed over. (And at the same time thought, why could I have not thought of such a thing!) A unique take on the marble effect, I got introduced to this [...]
Posted by Shumaila on May 25, 2012
http://thenovicehousewife.wordpress.com/2012/05/25/pudding-a-la-catastrophe-gateau/
Oven baked Rutabaga Fries, a Review & a Giveaway
So after more than a month of no blogging, I am back and plan to keep it that way. I could give you the reasons for not blogging, but I realize I will just end up whining. And that is something I just don’t want to do, especially today. Since I have been away for [...]
Posted by Shumaila on May 22, 2012
http://thenovicehousewife.wordpress.com/2012/05/22/oven-baked-rutabaga-fries-a-review-a-giveaway/
GMT: Guest Post by Frugal Feeding
To those who are wondering, Yes! I am still alive. Not that I have been super busy, and not that I haven’t been cooking, it’s just that with in-laws in town I have not been able to do my blog routine of cooking and then photographing and only then eating the food. Hence, the silence [...]
Posted by Shumaila on May 8, 2012
http://thenovicehousewife.wordpress.com/2012/05/08/gmt-guest-post-by-frugal-feeding/
Tish Boyle’s Luxe Pound Cake
I think I’m still a kid and no I do not mean the “young-at-heart” kind of way (though I wish I did). But, in the way that I need my mommy (no, that’s not what I call her) whenever things just seem a little too difficult to handle. Well, uhm… kid would be putting it [...]
Posted by Shumaila on April 12, 2012
http://thenovicehousewife.wordpress.com/2012/04/12/tish-boyles-luxe-pound-cake/
Garam Masala Tuesdays: Channa Masala with easily available ingredients
I started Garam Masala Tuesdays with three aims- one, to familiarize non-Indians with Indian cooking; two, to familiarize Indian cooking to Indian ladies like me, who had only recently forayed into Indian cooking and who like me did not have the pleasure of their moms to guide them through various aspects of Indian food and [...]
Posted by Shumaila on April 10, 2012
http://thenovicehousewife.wordpress.com/2012/04/10/garam-masala-tuesdays-channa-masala-with-ingredients-in-every-pantry/
April SRC: Cooking from “I Was Born to Cook”
I have been busy the past few days and it’s going to be like that for the next few days as well. This is also the reason why there have been no Office Thursdays for a while and I missed last week’s GMT. I’ll try to blog as often as I can but if I [...]
Posted by Shumaila on April 9, 2012
http://thenovicehousewife.wordpress.com/2012/04/09/april-src-cooking-from-i-was-born-to-cook/
Guest Post for The Heritage Cook: Mom’s Date Cake
I was introduced to Jane’s site when she was assigned my blog as part of her Secret Recipe Club assignment. But it was when I was assigned her blog a few months later (as part of my SRC assignment) is when I really took to her blog, bookmarking tons of recipes. I finally zeroed in [...]
Posted by Shumaila on April 4, 2012
http://thenovicehousewife.wordpress.com/2012/04/04/guest-post-for-the-heritage-cook-moms-date-cake/
April Recipe Swap: Chicken Snails
As I started writing this post, I could hear the sounds of fighter planes (going about their routine sorties) in the background. And that was enough for nostalgia to sink in. My dad is a fighter pilot for the Indian Air Force. My childhood has been spent in air force stations (or air force base [...]
Posted by Shumaila on April 2, 2012
http://thenovicehousewife.wordpress.com/2012/04/02/april-recipe-swap-chicken-snails/
