From My Kitchen

Over the last year I find myself thinking about food all the time. What to eat , what to grow, what to cook. All my “me” time (I have a lot of “me” time) revolves around food. Since living in Bangalore I do experiment a lot with what we call the “Indian cuisine”, and I must admit living in the south part of the country my north Indian genes really crave for good Chola and Paneer.  My mom passed me a recipe of the Chola Masala we cook in our Marwari kitchen, I tried my hand at it and was not at all happy with what I was eating, then I dialed up many older aunties (the younger generation is eating only quinoa and salad) and tried collecting a database of chola recipes. So unhappy with the outcome!!! Uff!! I just couldn’t taste the masala in Chola. It was more like throwing in some boiled chickpea in masaledar gravy. You know what I mean ?? And then ‘Google’ maharaj – my knight in shining armor came to my rescue. Since this recipe is an amalgamation of several finds on google,