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Chicken Vindaloo

I’ve been following and reading Prerna’s blog “Indian Simmer” for a while. She cooks traditional Indian dishes and takes the most beautiful and artistic pictures of food. After reading about her kitchen and seeing her gorgeous photography for months, I finally got around … Continue reading

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Goan Chicken Curry

This lovely number is from one of my first cookbooks, garnered from that sale table at Borders so many years ago: the ‘Best-Ever Curry Cookbook’ by Mridula Baljekar. The region of Goa is known for its coconut, and since I don’t think … Continue reading

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Tomato Mascarpone Pasta

I can’t count the times that I’ve heard my mom use the phrase “In my humble but correct opinion . . .” When I was young, I thought it was just one of her mom-isms, like her habit of waking … Continue reading

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Frijoles Charros

This recipe is an old classic, taken from my teenage recipe collection. Behold the binder of my youth! My sister Erica and I bought matching binders when I was about 16 years old, and faithfully copied in our favorite family … Continue reading

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