What’s Cooking?

on April 1st, 2010

I love desi food and before I became a housewife I considered cooking desi recipes almost impossible. The reasons behind this misunderstanding were

It takes a lot of time to cook desi food Even if you do manage to ignore the time constraint, it can’t be edible

So when I made my first [...]

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Biryani

on September 10th, 2009

I love biryani. I always thought what biryani exactly mean? So i did a bit of search and found the answe. According to IndiaCurry,

Biryani is derived from the Persian word ‘Birian’.  In Farsi, Birian means ‘Fried before Cooking’.  In the olden days, rice was fried (without washing) in Ghee (Clarified butter). It did [...]

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