So, yesterday, I told you guys about the utter joy I got out of growing my own oyster mushrooms using the Back to the Roots mushroom kit. Well, guess what?! If you’d like to try them for yourself, I have a special present for you! Check out the special offer that the co-founder, Nikhil Arora, [...]
I don’t have much of a green thumb. I can grow things, but then I get bored or I forget about them. Quite callous that way, now I think about it. As soon as the plant starts to go awry, I walk away. Bren is all about nursing it and attending it. He can’t believe [...]
At the beginning of the year (side note: holy joe! This year has whizzed right by!), Bren and I went to the South Beach Wine and Food Festival. One of the demos I knew I didn’t want to miss was of course, that handsome lad, Jamie Oliver. At first blush, Jamie’s boy-man appeal is apparent: [...]
If you’ve blessed me by coming to any of my cooking demos recently, then you may have heard me talking about how Indians, or at least the Indians in my family, often think that all good things, all civilized things, all things worth lauding… originated in India! Whether it’s the decimal point, the number zero, [...]
After a trip to the naturopath to figure out why the psoriasis on my shins won’t go away, I’m trying a month off dairy, gluten, almonds, kale, pineapple, brewers yeast (welp! No beer whatsoever!), navy beans and alfalfa sprouts. Yup, you heard me right. (Or I suppose more accurately, you *read* me right). Kale. Weird, [...]
It’s my mum’s birthday today (although as I write, it’s now tomorrow in India. Isn’t that wild?!) Happy birthday, mum! Thank you for carrying me so carefully for 9 months (all 10 pounds of me), for birthing me, feeding me, burping me, wiping my bum, stroking my head to sleep (which poor Bren still has [...]