It occurred to me this weekend that even though I’ve been making Indian dishes for the last few recipes, I haven’t made the one thing that Indian food is known for: curry. Actually, I haven’t made a curry since my very first post (curried vegetable wrap), so I figured this week should definitely be a [...]
Entries Tagged as 'health'
malai kofta
November 17th, 2008 · 3 Comments
Tags: dinner · dressing · health · india · indian recipe · lunch · raw · recipes · vegan
practicing kavala graha (oil pulling): how-to and benefits
November 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments
While staying at an ashram near Bangalore in India, I was introduced for the second time to the Ayurvedic practice of kavala graha, commonly known in English as oil pulling. Ro had first told me about kavala graha when he came back from a 6 month study abroad trip in India 3 years ago. Practicing [...]
kung wow veggies
November 3rd, 2008 · No Comments
Well, my attempt this week to make an Indian style dish ended up in a funk of different flavors that didn’t exactly please the palette. So after having a somewhat unpleasant lunch and getting inspired by an episode of Iron Chef, I decided to take a new direction and make some thing [...]
Tags: dinner · dressing · health · lunch · raw · recipes · vegan
chaat it up pizza and opening of roshi’s online store!
October 25th, 2008 · 2 Comments
Roshi’s Online Store
As the first order of business for this post, I would like to announce the opening of the Roshi’s Online Store. As our very first product, we will be selling incense sticks (known as agarbathies in India) which I brought back from India this summer. The incense sticks are hand made by [...]
Tags: dinner · health · indian recipe · lunch · raw · recipes · vegan
carrot crazy banana halva
June 6th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Its getting real close to my departure date, and my excitement has just been increasing exponentially. I just got a guide of all the places to travel to in India, and now I really can’t wait to get there. All the reading I’ve been doing has also gotten me really craving some Indian food. One [...]
Tags: dessert · health · raw · recipes · vegan
genetically engineered sugar will hit the u.s. market in 2008
June 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments
It seems like I’m always writing about sugar…
The granulated sugar supply in the U.S. comes from two agricultural sources: half from sugar cane and the other half from sugar beets. Recently, American Crystal, a large Wyoming-based sugar company, along with several other leading sugar manufacturers announced that they will be sourcing their sugar from genetically [...]
Tags: food issues · health
the “i’m going to asia” burrito
June 1st, 2008 · 4 Comments
Well, its finally June, and that means only one thing for me. SUMMER VACATION! After working all last summer at a large software corporation, I decided to do things just a bit differently this year. On June 14th, I’ll be heading on over to India, where I’ll be starting a 3 month [...]
