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    Chicken Meatballs with Coconut Curry

    I’ve been watching cookies get photographed at work all week. This, inevitably meant that I ate cookies all week. A lot of cookies. So when Matt mentioned curry as a dinner option this week, it had never sounded better. We make our curry with coconut milk which gives it a silky, smooth texture but it’s [...]

    Ragada (Potato Cakes with Spicy Chickpea Sauce)

    I used to be a slave to my favorite restaurants. Sure, I love to try new things, but I am the queen of cravings. This meant that if I went to one of my favorite eateries, I would stumble to the counter or to the table and beg for that must-have dish. I couldn’t NOT [...]

    Corn Dosas with Curried Black Beans and Corn and Cilantro Sauce

    Being a bit of a blogging rookie, I was bit nervous to join the Daring Cooks. But at the end of the day…I look forward to cooking dinner all day long and I’m always up for a challenge – just the stuff a Daring Cook is made of!
    I love Indian food. So I was delighted [...]

    Coconut Red Curry Lentils n' Rice

    This blog is about food…but a few people have pointed out to me that the little snippets of text here and there really tie it together. Because it’s not always enough to grab a recipe and run – some of you like a little splash of real life in there too.
    We had a fire at [...]

    Curried Chicken Soup

    I’ve been sick for a couple days. I wanted some chicken soup to warm me up, but I definitely didn’t want plain old chicken soup. I looked at what I had in my pantry (one of the beauties of making soup is using what’s on hand) and decided on a fresh and light [...]