pre dinner

dutch parrano & salt crackers

home sick feeling nauseous... good thing my mother knows her chicken noodle soup :)

Obsessed

Officially obsessed with The Cake Bible. love everything! Just baked page 54 -- perfect american buttercake. LOVES!

Girl's Night...

Cake Bible: Just baked our way through page 201 - Triple Chocolate Cake (with our own take on the ganache... we experimented adding hazelnuts and strawberries) + buttercream frosting.

five small meals a day?

Earlier this summer, while I was traveling Northern India, I was surprised at the eating habits. It seemed that rather than having a deliberate breakfast-lunch-dinner schedule, there was an early breakfast, a morning snack, a light lunch, an afternoon tea, and a late dinner. The first few weeks I was there, it was hard for me to adjust from my usual 3 hearty meals, but I ended up loving eating more spread out... it gives you more time to enjoy & digest, and I’m thinking about starting up a regular five meal schedule.

Lemon Milkshake

My mom made me a lemon buttermilk milkshake when I got home yesterday.... DELIGHTFUL!

Integrated Indian:

I’ve spent the past three weeks in India, and now, home, I’d like to hopefully be able to integrate more spices and indian cooking techniques into the food i make.

A few of my favorite dishes from the trip include:
Dal Makhani
Tandoori Chicken
Chloe bhature
Uttapam
Veg Kolhapuri