Before I get to the recipe for the potato salad I must tell you that I have seen the cover of the new Cook to Jhoom! book and it is gorgeous! Colourful and striking yet tasteful and modern. Definitely inspired by the glitz and glamour of contemporary Bollywood. We will release it in the coming days and I’m looking forward More →
My father is an excellent cook! He makes the best palak chicken I have ever tasted. During my childhood living in Kenya, he would cook the chicken in the garden on a typical African hot stove called a Jiko surrounded by friends and family. These gatherings are popularly known as Koroga Parties. Koroga being the Swahili word for “to stir”. More →
Following on from my previous post on South Indian food and Beetroot Thoran, I present Yogurt Rice or Thayir Choru which is the perfect accompaniment to the thoran and really delicious just on its own with a little pickle. Ammini Ramachandran, author of Grains Greens and Grated Coconuts, a fabulous book on the vegetarian food of Kerala, describes it as a taste of More →
This is my first foray into South Indian food on the blog, Kerala to be more specific. My first introduction to South Indian food was the marvelous masala dosa while on holiday in Delhi as a child. There was a travelling dosa-walla who would wheel his cart down the street behind my maasi’s house most evenings, calling out to us and tempting us all with the More →
A few weeks ago I made fluffy American pancakes for Sunday brunch. They got me thinking about savoury pancakes, which then got me thinking about Indian spiced pancakes for the blog…and here we are. It’s a wonderful thing when an idea materialises into something delicious on your plate…and on your Facebook wall with your friends telling you how hungry you More →
I first really noticed butternut squash when I was living in the UK. It is enormously popular in soups and sometimes in curries although I had never eaten it or cooked with it due to a lifelong aversion to any vegetable in the squash family. Feeling that I should act like a grown-up and give it another chance, I made one of Ottolenghi’s More →
After months of being hounded by friends, I finally decided to investigate the hype behind Hot Yoga. I enjoy yoga, I enjoy heat – but I wasn’t so sure about the two together. I enjoy working up a sweat in my Just Jhoom! classes, I don’t necessarily enjoy it dripping off me! Just in case you’ve not heard, hot yoga More →
I will confess to being a little lazy when it comes to cooking brown rice. I don’t eat rice, brown or white, often enough to justify owning a rice cooker, I’d much rather save the counter space for other gadgets like a coffee grinder for my spices, a blender for my smoothies and soups and 2 different sizes of food processor More →