Red Beans and Red Pumpkin Curry

I made this curry on a whim last evening. I used whatever ingredients I had on hand that needed attention, threw them together and made this yummy tasting curry. In my defense, most usually I plan our dinner in advance as I can be prepared about tasks to do in the evening. If you ask me, the most daunting task about cooking is the planning part, making something that is easy, healthy and which everybody in the family likes. Anyway, I do my planning usually while driving to or back from work. Now that is the time of the day…

Mirchi Ka Salan Recipe

Time flies and how! This year’s Diwali is also over. But then hope you all had a wonderful and a blessed Deepavali. We had a crazy time both on the home front and the work front and so could not post any Diwali related sweets and savories. Compound to that both me and my son fell sick and so we had a very subdued festival this year. Ah! But that is life and now hopefully things are coming back to normal. Coming back to this recipe of Mirchi Ka Salan, we had this quite recently at one of our friend’s…

Malabar Spinach Coconut Curry (Vaali Ambat)

  Malabar Spinach is also referred to Indian Spinach, Ceylon Spinach.  It is called as pui shak in Bengali, Vaali bhaaji in Konkani, basale soppu in Kannada and as bachhali in Telugu. Typical of leaf vegetables, it is high in vitamin A, vitamin C, iron, and calcium. It is low in calories by volume, and high in protein per calorie. (Source: Wiki) In Bangalore we had these plants growing in our yard. They are a fast-growing, vine reaching up to 10 m in length. They are thick, semi-succulent, and have a mild flavor. They hardly required any maintenance and the more…