Rachael's Varied Interests
In December ’07 my sister Natasha and I joined our brother Alex in Paris for a short visit. We stayed in Alex’s friends apartment in Porte de Montreuil and spent three days running around outside. One of our early stops was Le Marais, 4th arrondissement, …
This is a basic lentil recipe that I wrote up for my friend Libby. This lentil is like a side dish–it should be soft, but not completely soupy, and can be eaten with rice or Indian bread. 1 cup dal (split mung, urad, muth, etc.) …
Korma is a savory vegetable dish served in many Indian restaurants. I offer two versions here, one with heavy cream, and a vegan version using coconut milk. Korma gets it character and depth from the combination of fried spices and cream/coconut milk. The nice thing …
My mother shared this recipe with me a while back. It came from a magazine, but I don’t remember which one. These scones are delicious: not too sweet, light, and moist. Definitely the best scone recipe I’ve seen. Hazelnuts can be substituted by pecans, almond, …
This August, we had a visit from some cousins from England: Daksha Hathi and her daughters Krishna and Nirali. Jagdish (her husband) couldn’t make it, and these cinnamon buns were for him. This recipe comes from my mother, and is a combination of recipes from …
This recipe is adapted, very distantly now, from the Ukranian Poppy Seed Cake recipe in Mollie Katzen’s Moosewood Cookbook. It makes a relatively dense, buttery cake with a subtly Indian bent. The cake is not as dark as pictured. 3/4 cup dried sweetened coconut 1 …
This recipe is adapted from an old New York Times Magazine recipe for Cabbage-Poblano flatbread and it’s essentially what my (Indian) mother-in-law makes and calls “Thepla”. Thepla (in its various forms) is an excellent savory bread that travels very well. Depending on what you put …
Photo: Rainbowl, by Splat Worldwide I make a lot of this green soup in the late summer, when greens are plentiful. It freezes extremely well, is nutritious and delicious (even for those who don’t claim to be lovers of dark green veggies) and can be …