With it being the dead of winter and all, I’ve been doing my best to stay warm during the cloudy rainy days.  This can be especially difficult if your diet consists of mostly raw foods, so its good to supplement with foods and spices that having a warming tendency for the body.  The three C’s [...]

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Ask your average South Asian what their favorite frozen dessert is, and the answer invariably comes back as kulfi.  Kulfi is a dessert thats been made in India for hundreds of years, and comes in a variety of flavors from cardamom to pistachio to mango.  I have wonderful memories of my grandma bringing fresh batches [...]

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Well, after 2 weeks of slaving away at school, I’m finally catching a break.  To enjoy this little break, I decided to make myself one of the treats that I’ve been missing most after coming back from India.  It’s a dessert called rasmalai (literally meaning the “juice of cream”).  Traditionally, rasmalai is a pretty labor [...]

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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 [...]

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Barfi (Indian sweet meats)
This weekend I went out to an Indian restaurant with my friends, and after eating dinner, a few them decided they were still up for a dessert.  The restaurant had a big array of Indian sweet meats, and so I stood and explained to everyone what each one was.  After everyone had [...]

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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 [...]

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Badam Ka Halva
Hi everyone! Well, here it is, my first recipe post since I got back from India.  After traveling around for three long months, I learned a lot about how Indian food is put together and what all the spices can be used for.  I also learned a lot about the different styles of [...]

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