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  One of the most delicious Mutton Recipes comes from the Indian nomadic tribes of Rajasthan - Banjara Mutton. Banjara is a Hindi word for Nomads. So that's how it probably got its name. Recipe was shared with us from a fellow food blogger Ms Anu Pathria. We are delighted to feature her recipe of this iconic vintage dish and head #Chef cooked it on her newly acquired earthen cooking vessel called Chatti, which is from #Kerala giving it rustic flavour and making it supremely aromatic. #HeadChef followed Anu's recipe diligently and has posted the written recipe below. The results were amazing and worth interrupting chronological order of our Season 04 Travel Diaries. #Rajasthani Cuisine is one of the most #popular #cuisines from India that is #famous world over due to #Rajasthan being a hot #tourist destination for #GlobalTravellers . Most of the Rajasthani cuisine is vegetarian but it has some iconic recipes for meat dishes. #LalMaas is one such recipe and now #Banja...

(The beautiful calming river called Tons running through Ambika and Deepak's farm house in Dehradun)  I am one of those people who sits and pores over google maps when I'm bored - especially those satellite ones. It could be my immediate neighbourhood or Croatia (while mooning over Hauser's rendition of Hallelujah) or it could be a new place that I'm travelling to. Please send me your postal address, I whatsapped Deepak. Why do you need the postal address? He whatsapped back Just like that Don't worry, we'll be at the airport Okay at least tell me the area So he sent me the name of a village and immediately mud huts with thatched roofs dripping creepy crawlies came to mind. Jolly Grant to xxxgaon I fed into the app. There's a medical store near your house? There's nothing near our house. YouTube was next - xxxgaon went into the search engine and I actually found a video of a group of youngsters on two wheelers driving there for a picnic, shrieking down a...

  After many years of failing to get her mother in law's #SecretRecipes for making #NorthIndian style #ZeroOilPickles , Head #Chef Semanti finally tricks her to reveal the #recipes and makes them on her return to #Mumbai discovery the #delicious and heady mix of sweet, sour and spicy bursts of flavours. #Pickles are the most common, popular and widely used accompaniment with #IndianFood across the country. Every region of #India have their own recipes of #MakingPickles and though pickles are made with a variety of vegetables, roots, herbs and fruits using all kinds of oils, spices but Lemon and Mango pickles remain the most popular across the country. Though pickles today are a huge industry with thousands of brands, they are also made in most of the Indian homes and every family has their secret Grandmother's or mother's recipes they rely on. Though Zero oil pickles are not new in the Indian Subcontinent but they have recently become popular due to people se...

(The above is an old pic from our travels pre-covid as we could not find any pic in the aircraft from this trip. As you can see, Amit is not looking like a Baba Panda here 😂 )  Amit has always been an overconfident flier. Don't worry, the aircraft will taxi back for me - just let me send off this tweet. And the sparrows would line up in admiration. However two years of not even taking an autorickshaw ride seemed to have eaten away that confidence. Plus it might have been me. Did you hear Thiagu's (mad hatter based in Chennai) story? I asked Amit 4 weeks prior to our departure. He bought tickets worth 22k to and fro Jabalpur on Indigo and then found out those flights don't exist. Please check our tickets. Have you read all the fine print? I asked the next morning. There seems to be a lot of paperwork required. Do we need an rtpcr test? Please call the airline and find out. Uttarakhand needs us to have travel permits to enter, I announced the next morning. Maybe you should s...

In #Delhi Junior #chef Amit's mother who is a great cook and inspiration for many Slow fire chef recipes, Mrs Chandni Mehra shares her own recipe of #cooking #kashmiri #Roganjosh and head #Chef Semanti cooks it in her #Mumbai kitchen following her mother-in-law's recipe to create Ma's magic in these three part series. Roganjosh is cooked on slow fire with goat meat also known as Mutton, fresh ginger, variety of aromatic spices, almonds, khus khus and a bit of yogurt. #KashmiriRoganJosh is flavoursome, rustic and fragrant. By far one of the most popular #muttonrecipes in India from the iconic #kashmiriCuisine The Slow Fire Chef SE 04 EP 05: MUTTON ROGANJOSH / KASHMIRI ROGANJOSH / KASHMIRI FOOD / MUTTON CURRY / KASHMIRI MUTTON CURRY New Episode, every week. Mostly, on Fridays. Subscribe to The Slow Fire Chef Channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/TheSlowFireChef The Slow Fire Chef Website: http://www.theslowfirechef.com/ If you do try try our recipes, do...

About twenty years ago we had our 25th reunion - that would mean a reunion after 25 years of leaving school. And it was such fun to discover sixteen year olds leading such responsible lives - big careers - families - wives & children  (for in our hearts and minds we were still sixteen, no matter the passage of time) that it became rather addictive. Soon it became an annual then bi-annual, then 'whenever'ual. So when covid struck and the world was surviving in silos we were all heartbroken and the only thing that kept us going was a promise to meet in December of 21. That should, we calculated, be ample time for this unnecessary pestilent to be out of our lives and be safe enough for us to travel to meet. I plead guilty. I initiated it. In the month of March 2021 when the country was going through the throes of the second wave, we fixed on December and Jabalpur for the next meet. We'll finalise in September, I said. That should be ample time for hotel bookings if we went...