It’s a market-style restaurant where there are eating stations between the product isles. The amount of stuff you can buy is endless, and everything is Italian-food related. Olives in jars. Different cuts of meat and fish. Freshly made pasta. drool Bottled pasta sauces from popular chefs. Fresh bread and focaccia. Really, endless! We ordered a cheese platter that came with 5 cheeses, come cuts of meat, fruit preserve, and fresh artisan bread....

Pin Sweet Modak for Ganesh Chaturthi For Ganesh Chaturthi or Vinayaka Chaturthi recipes in Tamil, Telugu, Hindi , please use the translate button on the right sidebar of the website. Wishing all readers of Edible Garden a wonderful Ganesh Chaturthi 2013 !

Green Peas Sundal Recipe Pin Sundal and Navaratri festival are almost synonymous but I don’t limit something as nutritious and easy to prepare as a sundal to festival season alone. Pretty much all sundals have a similar recipe and the green peas sundal is no different. The only thing that you would need to remember to do ahead is the soaking. I used dried green peas for making this green peas sundal and it needs to be soaked for about 4 hours in warm water before preparing sundal with it....

Vegetarians may find this post offensive, gross or otherwise a bit over the top so proceed at your own risk and whatever you do, don’t look at the second last picture in this post. Thanks So, I am in Sydney this week. Although I asked around a fair bit, authentic Australian food is pretty much just steak and burgers and an odd bit of kangaroo meat thrown in here and there....

More research on chickpeas gave me some nice-to-know nutrition facts about it. “One hundred grams of mature boiled chickpeas contains 164 calories, 2.6 grams of fat (of which only 0.27 grams is saturated), 7.6 grams of dietary fiber and 8.9 grams of protein. Chickpeas also provide dietary calcium (49-53 mg/100 g), with some sources citing the garbanzo’s calcium content as about the same as yogurt and close to milk. " - Wikipedia...

Puliyodharai is a very popular South Indian tamarind rice recipe made with tamarind and spices. Puliyodharai is also very commonly served as ‘prasad’ in South Indian temples and the taste of temple tamarind rice is unmatchable.I was gifted Chandra Padmanabhan’s Southern Spice by a colleague in Hyderabad whose exact words when she handed it to me were ‘when I saw the kuzhi paniyaram on the cover, I thought of you’ (Thanks Pragi!...

Pin Photograph taken in natural light Pin Photograph taken in homemade light box for food photography So anyway, I thought since we have known each other for a while now, I should tell you all that my favourite drink of all times is Sangria. Since leaving Hyderabad, I’ve hardly ever had it but decided to make it the other day at home. TH hates any kind of alcohol so I got to drink this over the next month 😉...

Sweet chutney , a sweet-sour-spicy chutney made with dates and tamarind which forms an essential ingredient in putting together chaat, the Indian food group that I would argue is the most craved, especially by those living outside the country. I am one of them too. I have continuously hunted for good chaat in Singapore high and low with marginal success but I still hardly make any chaat items at home. The primary reason is that it requires a few ingredients that I don’t always have in hand....

Tomato thokku is probably the most flexible thing you’ll make. You can add and subtract ingredients as you please and it lends itself really well to all variations. I add garlic sometimes, blend the tomatoes or add them chopped, throw in some minced bell pepper, the choices are endless. The version of thakkali thokku I am sharing today is the simplest and uses no onion or garlic . I also find that adding a pinch of jaggery to tomato thokku really enhances the flavour....

Recently when I asked on my Instagram page on what type of posts and updates everyone likes to see, work life balance and “day in the life of Nags” was a top request. So I wanted to share a few insights into how we are managing with 2 full time working parents and a 17 month old toddler in the house. Before you begin, a couple of things. This is a long read so please bear with me....

I love food photography contests. It’s a different matter that I never seem to win anything but that just shows how talented photographers there are out there and that’s always a good thing, right? Does My Blog Look Good In This? or DMBLGiT is probably the mother of all food photo contests started by Andrew of Spittoon Extra , and I am honoured to be able to bring you the November 2011 edition of it....

What I absolutely LOVED about these cookies is that they turned out almost exactly like the Double Chocolate Chip cookies from Subway. Raise your hands if you love those. Yep, me too! So this is a total win in that sense. Pin Dried Blueberries But, it was sweet. It was very sweet. It was so sweet that even my sweet tooth were nudging me and asking what the heck I was thinking eating three of these in one shot....

Gulab jamuns. The quintessential dessert that’s present at pretty much every party, wedding, festival, and Indian buffet is a rich Indian sweet that’s made with reduced milk solids (mawa) made into balls, fried, and then dunked in rose-flavoured thick sugar syrup. Because of the very reason that it’s so popular, there are also many different methods to prepare gulab jamuns, including blasphemous shortcuts like using bread to make the jamun balls before soaking them in sugar syrup....

Chambakka pickle recipe: recipe for chambakka pickle or water rose apple pickle, a popular backyard fruit available in Kerala. Pin This is my first pickle recipe on Edible Garden but the thing is, I didn’t make this! The fact is, ever since I moved out of Kottayam for my first job and later, marriage, I have always been given jarfuls of pickles and podis. Neither TH nor I eat too much pickle and usually stick with having kozhambu with curd rice, rather than, say, mango pickle....

During the last few days in Sydney, I made a lot of odd things. Like many batches of almond cake and small sweets and modaks . I snacked on the mostly since I had a break between jobs but I also gifted a lot and realised how much I like cooking or baking for others. These ladoos were made one evening when I was bored out of my mind. I didn’t look up any recipe, rather just threw some things into a pan and cooked it down....

Its strange how this lemon poppy seed muffins got into my head. Strange because I don’t like citrus-y or lemon-y desserts. I am more of a chocolate person, or if not, I pick a Creme Brulee or a custard from the choices. Also strange because poppy seeds are not available in Singapore and I haven’t seen the black ones in India either (let me know if you know where to find them in India)....

Gajar Matar Recipe Carrots and peas cooked in a creamy spiced milk gravy serves 2 Ingredients: Carrots - 1.5 cups, chopped Peas - 1 cup Shallots - ¼ cup, finely chopped Milk - 2 cups (or 1 cup cream + 1 cup water) Cumin / jeera- 1 tsp Turmeric powder - a generous pinch Chilli powder - 2 tsp Garam Masala -1 tsp Oil - 2 tbsp Salt - to taste Fresh coriander leaves - add as much as you want, chopped How I Made It: 1....

Learn how to make Kadai Paneer, an Indian restaurant style paneer (cottage cheese) recipe that’s a popular accompaniment to tawa nan or jeera rice . It is easy to make Kadai Paneer at home provided you have the ingredients ready in hand. I really want to start this post by explaining what a kadai is (an Indian wok, btw) and what paneer is (erm.. Indian cottage cheese) but since I am just not in the mood, let’s get on quickly to the recipe, shall we?...

Kerala fish pickle is the bomb. Really. If you love seafood and you haven’t tried the Kerala version of fish pickle or meen achar, you are truly missing out. Now, the bottled fish pickle you get in supermarkets in Kerala are a bit too heavily preserved so if you want the real deal, make some at home because it’s really easy. Pin Kerala fish pickle recipe Ingredients Instructions As a spoilt third child with a very active mom, I never really make fish pickle myself....

I’ve been sitting with the compose box open for the past 20 mins and I can’t think of a single thing to say except that this fettuccine recipe rocks. I made it for dinner one night and hadn’t meant to post it on the blog but after tasting it, I had to take some pics so I can share it here. Its adapted from the fabulous VeganYumYum . Note : Fettuccine is traditionally pasta with egg in it so its not vegan by default....