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Punjabi green lentil dhal – incredibly easy and incredibly tasty
About two years ago, or perhaps a bit less, when I first started cooking Indian food, a very kind and generous British lady of Punjabi origin invited me to her home for what she jokingly called ‘a cur… more →
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Punjabi green lentil dhal – incredibly easy and incredibly tasty
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Maninas wrote 8 months ago: About two years ago, or perhaps a bit less, when I first started cooking Indian food, a very kind an … more →
Friends with Benefits, No Strings Attached Dating
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chanceencounters wrote 9 months ago: In today’s world of dating and relationships, the N.S.A. or No Strings Attached type dating has beco … more →
For the winter blues: Sri Lankan coconut dhal
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Maninas wrote 10 months ago: Hello! How are you, how’s the world at your end? Here in the UK, we’re cocooned in layer … more →
Varar - Sri Lankan cabbage and leek with coconut
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Maninas wrote 10 months ago: This gorgeous Sri Lankan vegetable side dish is the dish that made me love both leek and cabbage! It … more →
Sri Lankan Spices
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Maninas wrote 10 months ago: Before I tell you about the Sri Lankan spices (or rather spice mixtures), let me remind you about th … more →
Beautiful kale
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Maninas wrote 1 year ago: Kale @ Wikipedia Commons A few weeks ago, at a dinner at a local restaurant, I ordered a main of d … more →
Cooking a hated vegetable dangerously
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Maninas wrote 1 year ago: Image: Wikipedia Commons Cooking a hated vegetable dangerously. This is what the Significant Som … more →
My Morrocan-inspired chickpeas
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Maninas wrote 2 years ago: Addicted to chickpeas? Who me? No…. OK maybe a little bit…. OK maybe a bit more…. … more →
Dalmatian Chard with garlic and olive oil OR Blitva s maslinovim uljem i lukom
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Maninas wrote 2 years ago: Even the most elaborate and beautiful main dishes appear a little dull and painfully lack something … more →
Ajvar - red pepper and aubergine relish
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Maninas wrote 2 years ago: At the end of the summer, sometime at the end of August / beginning of September, red peppers and au … more →
Green bean and egg salad
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Maninas wrote 2 years ago: This is a simple but delicious salad eaten quite often in my home in Croatia at this time of year. I … more →
Catalan Chickpeas with Tomatoes and Almonds
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Maninas wrote 2 years ago: The other day Melissa from The Traveller’s Lunchbox posted a lovely chickpeas recipe that I fe … more →
