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Pretty Pasta Salad !

Posted in Easy One Pot Cooking, Picnic Food, Quick Meal Ideas, Salads, Versatile Accompaniments, tagged , , , , , , , , on September 10, 2009 | 2 Comments »

This is a personal favorite, one that I would love to make more often except I know that the rest of them prefer their pasta with sauce – unless it is au nature, with just some olive oil, which is the way the girls love it.
But they eat this without fuss as well, though with [...]

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Garlic Bread

Posted in Breads, Starters and Snacks, Versatile Accompaniments, tagged , , , , , on September 2, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Inspired by Shefali, I have started to make garlic bread at home finally. Shri misses the frozen kind we used to buy in HongKong from Delifrance, which one could just toast/grill at home with delicious results.
Here is the way I have been making it recently, which he as well as the girls like quite a [...]

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And finally – Pesto

Posted in Dips,Chutneys,Sauces, RECIPES, tagged , , , on July 15, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

Ever since the girls ate the delicious pasta with home made pesto at Radhesh’s home some weeks  ago, they have wanted to know why I don’t make pesto at home too.
Well, I used to, when they were babies, but back then only Shri and I liked it, the girls always seemed to prefer the bottled [...]

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Aubergine Parmiggiana

Posted in Baked Main Meal Dishes, tagged , , , , , , on February 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »

Along with socca, ratatouille, and crepes, this southern Italian(Campania) specialty was one of those foods I discovered in a local restaurant and fell in love with soon after we came to live in France.
So I was thrilled the day I found a lovely cookbook in the English bookshop in Valbonne some years ago, called  “The [...]

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Tomato and Basil Soup

Posted in Soups, tagged , , , on October 10, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

We had soup for dinner this evening, because Noor has developed a cold.
I had picked up a large bunch of fresh basil yesterday because I wanted to use some for the soup today; they say this herb is beneficial when one has a cold.
It also, of course, adds the most amazing taste and aroma. Indira [...]

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A Taste of Provence- Vegetable Soup with Pistou

Posted in Easy One Pot Cooking, Quick Meal Ideas, Soups, tagged , , , , , , , , , , on June 27, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

This morning, I was standing in front of the refrigerator, wondering which vegetable to sort for the day.
A little digression here. “Sort” here does not mean “to sort out”. It means “to take out”.
This is how living in France for 9 years has ruined my English, without making my French fluent.
For some years now, I [...]

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