Hindustan Times
Chagrined at a baby’s frank views, the author turns to another generation for comfort.
To a man fattened by the endless and often overstated endorsements of friends, family and readers, the rejection of culinary skills by a 5.5kg baby cuts to the bone, cleaving through a flab of accumulated complacency. Read more
(5 votes, average: 3.8 out of 5)
Loading ...Posted by Samar Halarnkar on Friday, November 26, 2010 at 8:49 pm
Filed under Food · Tagged baby food, cooking, culinary skills, Food, khichdi, kitchen, Oven-roasted vegetables
How 14 hours without food helped me rediscover the possibilities of a spice I long ignored
Readers of this blog may wonder where I have been lately. Well, I was out doing my job, reporting, and one recent stint was in Kashmir. Read more
(2 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Samar Halarnkar on Friday, October 1, 2010 at 7:26 pm
Filed under Food · Tagged chicken, Couscous, curfew, eggplant, Goan fish-curry recipe, grasslands, hindustan times, Jhelum, kitchen, red chilli, Srinagar, Srinagar garam masala, turmeric powder, windswept
I don’t like the monsoon.
Where people think of red earth and pouring rain, I picture dirty motorcycle tyres and muddied clothes. Read more
(3 votes, average: 5 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Samar Halarnkar on Friday, August 6, 2010 at 11:23 pm
Filed under My Daily Bread · Tagged eggs with mint, green chillies, kitchen, monsoon, mushroom, olive oi, onions, pakoras, Pudina Anda, Saute, sesame seeds, shammi kebabs, tomatoes
(1 votes, average: 3 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Samar Halarnkar on Saturday, March 20, 2010 at 5:05 pm
Filed under Food · Tagged cool Delhi spring da, Diwali, kitchen, Marinate, pork, porkie powder, spices
Have you ever heard of these?
Fighting Chicken
Star-Trek Brinjal
Mohammad’s Fish
Stay with me.
What do families do when they can’t leave home? Read more
(5 votes, average: 4.6 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Samar Halarnkar on Friday, April 17, 2009 at 7:18 pm
Filed under Food · Tagged Coromandel, Croatia, Fighting Chicken, fish, kitchen, kitchen diary, Star-Trek Brinjal
I’ve been in Delhi for 10 months now, but it’s only this week that I felt settled.
You see, we started making dosa and chutney in our own kitchen. That’s when my wife and I truly feel we’re home. Read more
(6 votes, average: 4.33 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Samar Halarnkar on Friday, April 3, 2009 at 9:36 pm
Filed under Food · Tagged chutney, dosa, idli, kitchen, sambhar, south indian food, south Indian restaurants
(Starting today, you will find a version of this blog in “Lounge”, the weekend edition of “Mint”, which I think is the best business paper in India. They asked me to start a column based on “My Daily Bread”. There will, of course, be much more online than in print. Disclaimer: The editor of Lounge is my wife, but no, she didn’t ask me to write)
How do you get your children interested in cooking, especially your sons? Read more
(7 votes, average: 4.86 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Samar Halarnkar on Friday, March 20, 2009 at 6:14 pm
Filed under Food · Tagged cook, egg, kitchen, meat loaf, mothers, onions, parsleym olive, security guards, tomato
If I were to be told this morning that 15 people are arriving for dinner tonight, it wouldn’t faze me or my wife (I’m sure she can’t claim otherwise and sound uncool).
It doesn’t matter if it’s a working day. I just had a dinner for 15 last week actually, on a Tuesday, a day after returning from a week in Bombay and restarting the kitchen. It was quite a breeze-as it usually is. Read more
(7 votes, average: 4.14 out of 5) Loading ...Posted by Samar Halarnkar on Thursday, March 5, 2009 at 7:12 pm
Filed under Food · Tagged Bombay, coke, Jhatka, kababs, kitchen, olives, salad, Shikampuri kababs, veggie dish fish curry
