Borani Esfanaaj-Yoghurt and Spinach Dip in the Persian Manner
This recipe won the competition on Food 52 for “Your Best Spinach Recipe”. It will be published in the Food 52 book by HarperStudio. Here is the link. In Memoriam- for Mader and the innocent victims...
View ArticleRoasted Beet ‘Carpaccio’ in the Persian Manner: Borani-e-Labu
“A monarch, regardless of being a queen or a king, must defend his or her land and treat the people with justice,” declared the Sassanian Empress Porandokht, (AD 630-31). An advocate of sexual...
View ArticleA Picnic Potato Salad in the Afghan Manner: Borani Kachalu
Baba tells me that Bobby Darin’s Dream Lover would play repeatedly at picnics with his friends in 1960s Lahore. But for real affectation, there had to be some Françoise Hardy. Baba also tells me that...
View ArticleEid Mubarak – 2010
Wishing everyone Eid Mubarak. We had a luncheon at our home, serving a ‘deconstructed raita‘- heirloom tomatoes and dainty Persian cucumbers served atop a pillowy layer of creamy Greek yoghurt, dusted...
View ArticleKeema Bharta Borani- Aubergine & Savoury Mince Borani in the Afghan /...
French-Indian. Mexican-Japanese. Thai-Chinese. Fusion cuisine? Not really my brand of gin. But when you have a family who is originally Afghan, now settled in Pakistan- invariably, there will be lots...
View ArticleBorani Kadu: Roasted Butternut Squash Verrines in the Afghan Manner
Kadu Bharta. Two words which sent shivers down my spine as a child-that Pakistani roasted squash dish which I just could not abide as a child. I don’t know whether it was the nursery food-like texture...
View ArticleBaingan Bharta – Roasted Eggplant / Aubergine Dip in the Pakistani Manner
I don’t remember Amma Subraayi. Our family’s seamstress, she died a few years after I was born, and by that time we had already moved to Washington, DC. My Nani Ami bought the jewel-toned fabrics for...
View ArticleKarachi and My Family – Life Amidst the Bombings
A few weeks ago, I woke up a little after 6am and with my eyes half shut, I checked my iPhone, which I usually do before making my way into the kitchen for my morning caffè latte ritual. As I scrolled...
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