SS bought me this innovative and exciting book – Jeni’s Splendid Ice Creams at Home– 2 years ago, as a part of a bevy of fabulous cookbooks for my birthday. I did attempt to make ice cream once using Jeni’s recipe, which if I recall accurately, was titled ‘The Darkest Chocolate Ice Cream In The […] Read more…
I reached Bombay to find 2 big boxes of juicy Mahableshwar strawberries welcoming be back home and back to the kitchen, and resist I could not. While in South Africa, a favourite breakfast for me after returning from sunrise safaris was a bowl full of chilled thick greek yoghurt, with fresh berry compote, muesli and […] Read more…
Got the monday blues? Here are 2 ways to beat it, inside and outside the kitchen! Attend a wonderful Food with Benefits for Manav Foundation dinner today at Cafe Zoe. Book your donation seat now on http://foodwithbenefits.org. The menu looks smashing! Bring out your gloves prep this wonderfully easy and heart warming Baby Beet and Goats […] Read more…
There are some culinary experiences that are forever etched in your psyche. They are unique, because quite frankly, they just cannot be recreated, and are incomparable with any other exploit. One such meal that I am proud to have experienced was at Dinner by Heston. Triggered by that, and his TV show How to Cook […] Read more…
Its that time of the year again. A real Indian incarnation of what joie de vivre, in its purest essence, really stands for. Hallways, doorways, windows and gateways, all decked out with fairy lights, fresh and dried flower torans, little diyas and tea lights. While everything around us is embellished and beatified, its only logical […] Read more…
Its been a confusing and somewhat tempestuous decision to take joie de vivre a step forward, in the grander scheme of things. Here’s how: first and foremost, after months of procrastinating and undue delay, I finally had a sit down with Gunjan of Design of Information for a successful and excellent brainstorming session, the fruit […] Read more…
