Cottage Pie

Cottage pie needs no introduction. I made it for supper the other night. I normally throw in spaghetti with mince, but I’m cutting down on carbs – yes I know I used potatoes – but a double dosage would have been too much.

I usually cook my mince with chilli powder, dhania & jeera powder and [...]

Tandoori Chicken

When it comes to Indian cooking / cooking with spices, I rarely (ok, up until this weekend, never) buy premixed spices. I always add my own quantities of each spice to whatever I’m making. I learnt from my mom and she would also cook this way, meaning she wont use a briyani mix that you [...]

Homemade Pizza

This was a very lazy supper on Sunday, so I decided to make something light. A pizza sounded like the best option and throwing whatever I had in the fridge as a topping worked out quite nicely.

For the base:

2 cups flour
2t baking powder
4T oil
half cup milk and half cup water – mix with 4T oil
salt

Make [...]

Chicken a la King

This is very old recipe of mine – I learnt how to make it in high school. It was taught to me by my home economics teacher – you generally get taught flop proof recipes, so I can assure you, its not difficult and chances are, it wont flop.
I stopped making Chicken a la King [...]