Maincourse

One of my family’s most favourite of rice recipes, Kabuli pulao in comparison to Pakistani/Indian style pulao is a lot less spicy. The flavours mostly come from salty meat broth…

Batair or quail is a delicacy on Pakistani festive menus. My father loved cooking quails for parties. I still remember, an old villager used to come a few times every…

  “The only real stumbling block is fear of failure. In cooking you got to have a what-the-hell attitude”. Julia Child This was the inspirational quote from Julia Child that…

How Weather Changes Our Food Habits: The scorching summer in Lahore forces us Lahorites to change our lifestyles drastically. In many households lassi (a cool yogurt drink) replaces tea and…

My idea of comfort food; something that’s not only a comfort to eat but also a comfort to cook! Summer evenings, picnics, pool parties, movie nights…they seem incomplete without the…

“So few people eat okra (more radishes are grown in this country) that it never even makes it onto the lists of top 10 hated foods”. – Julia Reed I…

Whenever we dine out, the starter we order most are spicy chicken wings. Grilled, barbecued or broiled and covered with thick, spicy sauce. Chicken wings make very appetising starters, snack…

“A hook’s well lost to catch a salmon” Proverb Food can’t get healthier than this recipe for green masala salmon and stir fried coleslaw. Fish cooked in a herb marinade…

“We all eat, and it would be a sad waste of opportunity to eat badly.” –Anna Thomas Tandoori is perhaps one of the oldest methods of cooking. Tandoor is a…

Penne pasta with chicken in white sauce

“People who love to eat are always the best people”. – Julia Child This recipe is so quick and easy that my 8 year old daughter makes these chicken fillets…

“Life is a combination of magic and pasta”. – Federico Fellini (Fettuccine is a flat, thick noodle made of egg and flour… Looks like ribbons… That’s why the name ‘fettuccine’…

“Don’t fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have”. – Louis…