south asian (non-sri lankan)

curry-spiced cashews

I started making these spiced cashews on Sundays, in anticipation of a new episode of Mad Men. I hope you make these nuts for equally epic but lighter events.

burmese shan tofu, fried

Only you reading this can call me on it when I nod as if I've always known and say "Well, chickpea tofu? That's so Burmese."

weekend class: rice paper dumplings with mung bean filling

It's generally really easy to make your own rice flour dough! Generally...

mango salad with hazelnut and lime dressing

My little cousins (well, they’re really my cousins’ kids) are strange. I think. This is not the kind of salad...

yogurt marinades

Things started smoking, pans started burning but it was worth it to have the marinade turn into a delicious glue that charred in spots.

cookbooks i’m craving: asian dumplings, encyclopedia of asian food

There’s been so many great things said about these two book, more than enough to tempt me to buy. But in the end, I’m sold on Andrea Nguyen’s book Asian Dumplings because it features a picture in the early pages...

the ingredient: fresh rampe (pandan/screw pine leaves)

My family cooks with rampe (also known as screw pine or pandan leaves) constantly, but this is the first time I have seen fresh leaves.

steamed tofu with a tart tamari dressing

The soft rice is the toothsome part of this dish, the tofu is silk. Both are the foil for the tangy soy dressing.

summer in (little) india

just some of the things i ate at this weekend's fesival of south asia, in little india (gerrard st., toronto).

i love you, lahore tikka house

i swear that when the two of us were ordering this meal at lahore tikka house on monday, it seemed...

issues

green

fat

we say tomato

what to eat?

crudités with curry leaf coconut sambol dip