A homemaker's kitchen journal
For most of my young life I had a very straightforward, uncomplicated (read boring) sweet tooth.
With Indian food, being so popular, you'd think those puffed up naans, cream laden curries, red hot tandooris and sought after tikka ma.
Confession: Sometimes, the eloquent recipe writing that flies from these pages and ensuing million noble words punched onto the h.
I literally bake through this last quarter of scorch blasting season, plastered in sweat, where my armskin gets brandironed by seatbel.
This post comes in wake of a monumentous holiday that people in India celebrate.
When a pot of cream-flecked Indian chicken you've been forever making on fleek, is being likened to the menu item the Indian joint near.
The chapati, or roti, as it's generically known, is the Indian's way of telling the world they have mastered the art of the flatbread.
This feature is assigned to those who consider the sweet tooth a vital part of their body, keeping it happy and bringing into congnizanc.
When it comes to Indian sweets and confections, I am not as proficiently expertised as I'd like.
If anyone were to ask me which dish would be the perfect introduction to Indian cuisine, the reply would, undoubtedly, be biriyani.
How could I resist the idea to celebrate American Independence with an iconically Indian dessert? If you're, in any way, familiar with my wa.