Indian Black Rice Salad with Peaches and Cucumbers is a fun and different twist on grain salads, perfect for summer when peaches are at their prime. Uh… maybe you were expecting a cookie. Somehow we dropped the ball for June 2018 and no Creative Cookie Exchange ended up happening. But hey it is the first…
Curried Kitchen Sink Soup
Curried Kitchen Sink Soup is a fantastic and easy soup that can be adjusted to whatever you have on hand–including Thanksgiving leftovers! I am still full of the good drugs for these back spasms, so once again forgive anything that does not make sense and please just email or comment and let me know! I…
Green Tomato Curry with Peanuts and Yellow Split Peas
Green Tomato Curry with Peanuts and Yellow Split Peas is a delicious and easy way to use up the last of the tomato harvest. For that matter, I would grow tomatoes just to pick them underripe and make this! It is not often I get to wax poetic on this site about a savory dish…
Ash-e Anar (Persian Pomegranate Soup with Meatballs)
I almost forgot to share this recipe with you guys, which would have been a crime! It is that good! But boy it has been a weird month. The cruise was enough alone to make everything topsy turvy–I would love to say that we always get out of town in the winter but actually that…
Split Pea Khichari with Dill and Tomatoes
He’s home! He’s home! Everything is better when Daddy is home. From Sunday to Tuesday I cooked 2 dinners, baked one cake, and even a batch of cookies. That is the Daddy Difference, since before that I was pushing canned soup at my kids and pleading with them to just go to bed (ok it…
Shrimp and Chicken Curry with Apples and Basil; Watermelon Sambhar
A lot of the furnishings in my home have been cobbled together from various hand me downs from family members. Recently, John and I decided that we needed a different approach to the girls’ bedrooms, so we made a trip to IKEA. While we were there, we also started thinking about my cookbook problem collection.
Ohio-in-July Vegetable Soup, Indian Style
I try not to over-indulge in potatoes and sweet corn. They are both super starchy and they share a distinction–in my family at any rate–as rarely being the only starch on the plate (for example, if we have potatoes in a curry we often then want it on rice). And the sweetness of the…
Persian Gulf Split Pea Soup with Rice & Mint
So what is Mother Nature doing where you are? Is it as weird and crazy there? Temperatures all over the place, nonstop rain and storms, flooding, weird random sunshine when you least expect it (and probably cannot take advantage of it anyway if you have a traditional weekday job)…
Coconut Lentil Soup with Potatoes and Peas
The Spiced Life family just got back from a whirlwind trip to Disney World! John got invited to talk at a conference there and we said yes, please! 3 days nonstop parks with rides, princesses, food, princesses, fairies, princesses… So please forgive any typos or just plain incomprehensible sentences. My brain feels like Swiss cheese;…