After almost a month of getting things ready, we finally have a small vegetable garden now. Our landlords are avid gardeners, but the house ...

A very simple Russian peasant soup made with mushrooms and potatoes was a big part of today's dinner. I used the recipe from  The Russia...

For a recent get-together at one of my colleague's house, I had to make dessert and with the little time I had, needed to put together s...

Shankar tries to get me Indian veggies that I usually don't get in Madison from St. Louis. Last week he had bought some plantains of an ...

We have had a crazy busy weekend for the last three weeks and finally having a relaxed one at home. And I was able to cook a few dishes afte...

Here is one of my favorite picture of Nikko taken in Owen, a couple of years back. He was hiding in Shankar's sweatshirt pocket and was ...

This used to be the view from my living room window ~ minus the dude on the tree. Now the dead trees are gone! The view still looks good ~ m...

I made these Almond Crescents for a crunchy something to go along with the Venezuelan Coconut Rice Pudding a couple of weeks back. This was...