Blogs and Recipes

I can still smell and taste my grandma’s best mango pickle when I remember summers as a kid: pickle slathered over a roti wrapped into an afternoon snack, pickle oil blended with potatoes and onions to go with rice and dal, or just pickle straight up. My grandmother, who disliked cooking and took on every other menial chore in the home to avoid kitchen work, made the finest pickles I’ve ever tasted. It’s a shame she passed away before passing on her recipes. But more than the recipes, I remember her sitting in the sun, dressed in a snow-white pristine...

After a cold winter, we enter the season of spring. The temperature slowly begins to rise, and our diet requirement changes along with the changing weather. During the cold winters, the body’s main goal is to store fat, but as we move towards a warmer climate our internal environment changes, body temperature rises and we begin to melt fat faster. According to Ayurveda, we enter the Kapha season in spring. The earth and the water elements are prominent in this season. Universally spring is associated with cleaning, much like this our bodies enter a cleaning phase too. Eating foods that...

Shorter days and colder temperatures do not just mean a change for our body on the outside, but on the inside too. It’s not just our clothes and dressing style that changes in winters, our metabolism, food choices and hunger cues are all affected by the weather. Studies have shown that metabolism speeds up in winter; this is associated with increased hunger and a craving for comfort foods. You might have noticed people often complaining that they eat more during winters, turns out it is true.  Winter comes with its own set of viral infections and flu. Especially in these...

Cashews, which originated in Brazil, have become a popular ingredient in Indian households for a long. Despite their country of origin, cashew nuts are grown in India on a very large scale and India is one of the prime exporters of cashews today. Cashew or Kaju is commonly consumed raw, in gravies, roasted, salted, in cupcakes, and a variety of other ways. But, have you ever wondered; Why cashews are so famous worldwide? Why it is that cashew is regarded as the King of the Nut-Kingdom? Why are cashews regarded as sophisticated nuts? The answer lies in the nutritional composition...