I’m trying to return to the kitchen, and coming back home to cook every afternoon is one of the ways in which I’m trying to get back to cooking. These were our lunches for this past week.

We awoke to watery sunshine then went back to sleep.  We dozed for ages, it was so relaxing.  We read and drank coffee then went for a drive at about 3.00pm, by which time it was raining again.  We climbed Mont D’Or where D had been the previous evening but the 56 steps of the [...]

I cooked this for dinner yesterday. It’s interesting what innovative dishes you come up with, when you don’t really have a choice of cooking implements or ingredients. Looking up my inventory, I chopped up some courgettes, spring onions, potatoes, smoked sausage, mushrooms and french beans. Heated some oil, fried a little cumin seed, added some [...]

Another contribution by Naheed. I had bought fresh thyme from the Okhla vegetable market and needed to use it in a dish the very same day. Here it goes then: Saute two ripe chopped tomatoes with onion and garlic, put in about 250ml thick tomato puree. Then add fresh basil and thyme along with some [...]