Garbanzo beans –two different ways

  Garbanzo beans, chick peas, Kabuli channa…..a rose by any other name! Garbanzo beans are cheap, easily available and high in protein. A little goes a long way in filling you up. Here are two quick-to-put-together ways, of using these tasty legumes.    The old Warhorse- The South Indian Sundal. Ingredients: Tin of garbanzo beans- …

George Clooney and Rainbow Rice-paper Rolls

You may well ask, what does George Clooney have to do with Vietnamese rainbow rice-paper rolls? Does he make them? Or eat them, regularly? Or endorse them? I have no clue….as we haven’t communicated of late :)……but then I haven’t communicated with anyone in almost a month. I’ve been busy, busy, busy. Busy making cakes, …

Nutty Onion Pakodas

Almost four thousand miles separate Japan and India. And many light years separate the cultures of the two countries. But Buddhism travelled all those miles from India, and was absorbed into Japan. Now I don’t know very much about Japanese cuisine, being a vegetarian, and I’ve always believed that it was an untouched tradition that …