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100% Whole Wheat Bread

Posted by Raje on Tuesday, January 12, 2010 at 7:50 am. 0 Comments.

Aditya’s First Grade teacher gave me a loaf of Whole Wheat Bread as a thank you for helping out in his class. It was delicious and I was hooked. She told me that she ground her own wheat and preffered using Hard White Winter Berries. This ofcourse set me off on a exploratory trip on the [...]

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How to Bake a Cake ( from a mix)?

Posted by Raje on Saturday, June 27, 2009 at 8:21 am. 1 Comment.

I was asked this question by a friend of mine, a while ago. My response was another question. What kind of cake? So she explained that she had baked a cake from a mix, but the center had still been a bit gooey and uncooked. The cake had already been consumed, but she wanted to [...]

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Dal’s in Indian Cookery -2( The Various Dals)

Posted by Raje on Thursday, May 21, 2009 at 7:22 pm. 0 Comments.

Dal’s are an integral part of Indian Cookery. In English they are commonly know as Lentils , Pulses or Grams. For the Indian population these are the main source of protien. Every region of India has its own unique recipe for the dals.

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Dal’s in Indian Cookery -1(Posting Ground Rules)

Posted by Raje on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 6:33 pm. 0 Comments.

This is my very first post in this series and I have decided to set some ground rules for my self regarding how I will proceed. For the sake of consistency I will list all the dals with their Hindi names. Each post will have a number associated with them for an easy way to [...]

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Cooking Lentils or Dals

Posted by Raje on Saturday, April 25, 2009 at 10:16 am. 0 Comments.

One day I arrived home to find that Shilpesh had put Rajma and Masoor dal in the cooker in the hopes to make a dal of the variety Aditya likes. Aditya is extremely fond of the Madras Lentils that can be got in Costco. I really think it tastes more like Dal Makhani, but may [...]

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Alligator Chopper

Posted by Raje on Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 8:37 pm. 1 Comment.

The Alligator Chopper is one of my favorite kitchen tools. I need to admit that when it comes to onion choppers I seem to have tested most of them in the market (or to be more appropriate my Mom). The Vidalia and Progressive brand choppers hardly lasted. My Mom is slim with not much [...]

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