This must be the most nutritious sweet of the lot. A mung bean paste coated with a crunchy rice flour paste fried in golden coconut oil. Now doesn’t that sound like fun? My mother is extremely  fond of this and insists she makes this every year. She made these actually. I just watched and helped. Ingredients 250g Mung Bean flour* ...

There was a time when I believed that to make frozen yogurt, all you need to do is pop the yogurt in the freezer. Boy was I wrong! Hot days these. Everything cold and frozen are more than welcome in my household and therefore, the frozen yogurt could not have come at a better time. Yogurt in itself is cooling, ...

“Picture you upon my knee, Tea for two and two for tea…” Imagine having a scone to nibble at in the meantime. It would be quite pleasant now, wouldn’t it? Teatime, for us, is almost always something of an occasion. There is something special for tea – whether it be a cake, cookies, sandwiches of sorts, some sort of finger ...

If ever there was guilt-free indulgence, this would be it. Exotic, Middle Eastern, Arabian Nights. The first three words that came to my head upon taking the first bite. It’s a lovely, lovely snack, if I may say so myself. I love dates. A few dates with a glass of cold milk being my all-time favourite bounce-back snack, I thought, ...

To wander among the lush foliage, rejoicing in the fragrant breeze carrying the sweetness of forever blooming flowers, to pick your own produce from your own tropical garden dappled with bright streaks of sunlight surrounded by the many songs of winged creatures – what joy! What a wonderful state of being! We are blessed to be born in this tropical ...

So what really is the best thing about December for you?For me, it’s obviously the food and the festivities surrounding it. Or is it the other way round?Paan Paan has the exact same thing in mind it seems. And for the month of December, Paan Paan has unleashed upon us hopeless gluttons its exclusive Christmas goodies collection which are available ...

It would be fair to say that I got this passion for cooking from my mother’s side of the family.Hailing from the south coast of the island, from my grandmother to my aunts and my mother, I come from a long line of passionate and gifted cooks whose second nature is stirring away at cauldrons bubbling away in the kitchen. ...

Okay, a health-ier one if I am being honest.I’ve just begun to realize this – I am slowly (but surely) going off chocolate.I know that some of you might be starring at the screen horror-faced right now but it does seem like the case. Days of whacking off entire Cadburys, licking off melty-sweet milk chocolate off arms and fingers seem ...

Can you smell it? Can you feel it in the air?December is fast approaching and the air is already buzzing with electricity. There is a certain perfume in the air- a subtle smokiness reminiscent of good food, great company and happy times. December  is hands down my favorite month of the year.Don’t you ever wish that it could be December ...

Times are desperate but that does not mean that one must not eat well.Spirits are down and we all miss the occasional night out and the ability to walk down the street and into a shop and choose your week’s supplies at will. Freedom – we have always taken this for granted.I for one, will never take a stroll down ...

Now the advantage of being a new bride is that everybody wants to feed you. The advantage of being a new bride who has left her city home to join her husband in a somewhat village-like setting is that everybody wants to show off their hometown to you and this they do by bringing you unique gifts such as rare ...

I am someone who would travel all the way to India to buy myself some proper Indian sweets.It all started with the shiny gift box my mother placed in my hands after coming back from India many many years back. I was barely 6 years old and my mother had accompanied one of her friends to India in her quest ...

I can’t imagine for the life of me, why this article took so long in coming.India and I have a very complicated relationship. Having spent a good few years within its bosom, I must admit that it is a country that is difficult to love but once you learn to love it, like an injured stray kitten who has been ...

Here’s something to keep your hands busy with while you sit out the Corona.I’ve lost the count of times I’ve made and remade this bread at home – with apricots, sometimes with dates, raisins and prunes and everytime it yields a wonderful read. But I’ve kept one ingredient as a constant – that is the walnuts and of course the ...

I am back baby!It’s been a long time since I posted one of my recipes here. Life has been hectic and in the midst of it all, it’s 2020!2019 was literally a roller coaster – TV shows, events, collaborations, poetry events, various partnerships, all while working a demanding full time job and I barely had time to breathe. It really ...

A cold glass of tangy, bitter-sweet liquid gleaming golden in your hand as you fan yourself against the tropical heat. Sounds wonderful doesn’t it? This is one of the simplest, most mundane recipes – mundane because this is something that I’ve been making since I don’t know when. Normally in a regular household, there would always be a bottle of ...

2017 had the most unpleasant surprise waiting for us. Just as we were getting things back in track for the blog and whatnot, life ladles out calamity. This time, calamity comes in the form of dengue – a potentially fatal fever carried by a tiny mosquito that dwells in the tropics – which Sri Lanka is. And this time, one ...

It was a dark and gloomy day that day with neither sun nor rain. Rain was threatening in the distant, but it showed no sign of coming. I was feeling somewhat down myself and needed something comforting, piquant, yet rich and despite the heat these days, something warm. My soul needed some warming. As one of my foodie friends recently ...

Tough times are upon us.COVID-19 took the world by storm and as if that isn’t enough, we are all in lockdown with nowhere to turn to when it comes to groceries and eatables. Panic buying has emptied out entire stores and we are now forced to survive on essentials. I will never, ever take a visit to the supermarket lightly ...

This is the blondie that you momma warned you about! Seriously, I’ve been dreaming about cherries and white chocolate the whole week! And this is what I came up with. There’s nothing healthy about this. Neither is it all natural. But it does taste so, so good! It is amazing actually and I simply couldn’t have enough of it. Ok ...