Foodie Lists
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4 Easy Peasy Tomato-y Recipes
I love tomatoes. Anything with tomatoes, rich and acidic and sweet, is almost always an automatic win for me. Which is a good thing because a lot of North Indian food tends to come with a base of tomatoes. A lot of tadkas involve tomatoes alongside many, many spices, either slow roasted over a flame until mushy, or blended and then cooked. Mmmm, tomato-y goodness. Looking back at the many recipes I’ve tried since I started cooking in earnest some 7, 8 years ago, it’s unsurprising that so many of them involve tomatoes in some way or form. Sauces or slices, vine-ripened or cherry or sun-dried – any and every…
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3 Ways To Spice Up Your Instant Noodles
There’s this trend these days on TikTok and Instagram reels and YouTube shorts on how to ‘hack’ your instant noodles. Ways to dress up the straight-forward and make something new out of the same old. As someone who was tired of the instant noodles she was having – someone who stopped eating instant noodles almost completely – this interested me. What sort of suggestions were there? What could I adapt for myself? And then I saw these videos and – I mean, I’m sure they’re great. I’m sure they’re tasty. But a lot of these hacks involve a lot of prep work, and when I want to eat instant noodles,…