Did you know that the way you prepare your garlic for cooking makes a big difference to the flavour of the end dish? I have discussed each of the ways I prepare garlic in previous recipes but I thought it would be a good idea to have them all in one post for easy reference. [...]

You can’t beat a good mint raita with pappadams and kebabs! I like to look at this recipe as a work in progress. It’s simple and I do change it all the time. I add this or that ingredient though it really doesn’t need a thing to be perfect. The flavour is similar to what [...]

Another delicious Bangladeshi snack for you! Want to try an incredibly tasty stack? This Bangladeshi snack is a good place to start. I made it tonight for my wife and kids before dinner and it was gone in minutes. Much better for you than crisps, these spicy almonds are perfect finger food but they are [...]

Kingfisher beer tomato chutney is the perfect accompaniment for pappadams and kebabs! If you’ve ever made proper Mexican salsa, you’ll know just how good a drop of Mexican beer tastes mixed in. Mexican and Indian cookery is similar in many ways but I’ve yet to find an Indian recipe using beer. So I decided to [...]

The similarities in Mexican and Indian food recipes really interest me! I didn’t fall in love with Indian food until I moved to the UK twenty years ago. Before then, I’d perhaps tried a few Indian food recipes but nothing memorable. As a kid growing up in California I was hooked on Mexican food. I [...]