Roasted Pumpkin and Spinach Salad with Spiced Tempeh and Cottage Cheese

How about whipping up a quick salad for a hot summer afternoon lunch? Sounds good!! It works all the better for me if the salad has spicy fried tempeh as crunch factor. I love tempeh, not only in salads but in absolutely any form. In Singapore, Malays use Tempeh to make a wonderful dish called Sambal…

Mustard Fish Curry (Baked in Oven)

This is traditionally a Bengali dish but I have changed the recipe a little in order to make it a tad bit healthier however with no compromise on taste. This dish is baked in the oven!…which earns extra points on health factor. The flavor and aroma is over-the-top impressive. This is a very easy way…

Broccoli Paneer Parathas (Indian flatbread with broccoli and cottage cheese)

Parathas are a norm for breakfast in most Indian households of North India. Parathas are Indian flatbreads rolled out from a wheat flour dough and shallow fried on both sides on a Tava / Griddle  with very little oil. They are healthy and if one prepares it with various vegetable stuffings it becomes a nutritious…

Creamy Red Bean Avocado Salad

An exciting date night with DH at the bustling night streets of Boat Quay gets us wandering into a famous Mexican restaurant Cafe Iguana. Excellent authentic delicious food and counted among few of the restaurants serving good Mexican cuisine in Singapore!! We tried everything from tacos, burritos, fajitas but the one thing that got into my heart…

Easy Meatball Stew

It has been raining in Singapore for the past few days. Raining, as in actual rains!!…not pouring. The rains in SG bring with it a temporary relief from the heat but leaves behind a host of diseases and illnesses. Most of DD’s classmates and my friends’ kids are down with fever, cough or sore throat.…