Doesn’t that sound heart warmingly nice? Let me really not keep you from this awesomeness. Just one little thing – once you read this, you must make this. If you do, your life will start making complete sense, the Milky Way will align in magical ways to make your dreams come true. And nothing has […]
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Dear Curd Rice…
You are light and nice just spiced right with a little bit of pickle you are the best diet dear curd rice, dear curd rice … on hot summer days I crave for you on stomach upset days I’d kill for you dear curd rice, dear curd rice … some say you are boring some say you […]
Happy New Places..
Its Christmas time! Have you any idea how gorgeous Bandra, Hill road would be just about now? They would have stalls upon stalls full of Christmas decorations and trees … Stars and angels and shiny disco balls. They would have plum cake and marzipans and those milky chocolate things. There would be people shopping and […]
Burp!
I was surfing the net and came across this piece that claimed to be able to tell a person’s personality type by the food they liked. Mine would have been ‘Blubber Queen’ but then I didn’t take the test. I mean, what is the point? Right? Right. It got me thinking though. What are my […]
Faith Vs Doubt
There is nothing easier to kill in the world than a dream if it is too big to fit in your life. Maybe except for a stray dog on a street, a tiger in a jungle, a dolphin in the ocean, a river choking on effluents, a valley denuded by mining because in a habitat being usurped […]
Recipes For The Soul
I said I was going to do it before the season was over… so here I am, bearing the gift of my mother’s Green Mango Rice recipe. The mango carts are now covered with Neelams (pretty and sweet, yet harbouring those black beetles) that mark the end, so I just about made it. Amma’s […]
From Chef Tyagi’s Kitchen-Tandoori Salmon
Unboxed Writers present one of Master Chef Sanjay Tyagi’s favourite recipes. Passion and discipline inspire Chef Tyagi to create dishes that are more art than food. After having nurtured Umerkot as one of Bangalore’s premier Indian restaurants, he is now busy nourishing Tattv. Tattv, which in Sanskrit means an element, aims to showcase kebabs using the five culinary elements: Tandoor, Sigri, Kadai, Tava […]
Cooking For The Season
June is the month for mangoes and mango eating. My grandfather would say that we should eat nothing but mangoes during this season, accompanied by glasses of milk. Eww…I can’t handle the milk part. But mangoes! Green mango rice with ground mustard and green chillies, mango panna with cardamom and jaggery, mango lassi, mango kulfi, mango […]
A Chef’s Life
Chef Sanjay Tyagi never uses the garam masala in his cooking. “Haven’t used it for over 20 years,” he says. The reason? In his food, as in his life, he wants different flavours to speak for themselves. To stand out. To be heard. The affable, soft spoken Tyagi is as enthusiastic about his food as he was when he […]
From Chef Tyagi’s Kitchen…
Unboxed Writers present Master Chef Sanjay Tyagi’s column where he will share unique recipes enriched by his decades of work in various parts of the world. It will be called From Chef Tyagi’s Kitchen. Passion and discipline inspire Chef Tyagi to create dishes that are more art than food. After having nurtured Umerkot as one of Bangalore’s premier Indian restaurants, he is now busy nourishing Tattv. Tattv, which […]
Julia Child In Colombo
The setting: A Sri Lankan Presidential bungalow turned into an intimate, sexy restaurant. Think dark panelling, ornate pillars, flowers everywhere. The food: Fabulous nouvelle cuisine. The right mixture of local and international flavours, all carefully prepared and beautifully presented. Isn’t it odd then, that the only thing I can remember about that meal is the dessert? This […]
For Those Who Read Us..
Unboxed Writers began reaching out to readers in March 2011 and in April we are nearly 140 stories and many thousands of clicks old. Yes, we are being read and shared but there are days, to be honest, when we wonder. No, not about we why are writing. We do not question the joy of reaching out every single day to every single person who […]