February 12, 2011

Panch Phoran is a spice mix used in Eastern Indian cuisine ( Bengali cuisine) and is a mix of the five spices – nigella seeds, fennel seeds, fenugreek seeds, mustard seeds and cumin seeds all in equal quantities. Panch = Five and Phoran = Spices, so it literally means five spices. This spice mix can [...]
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June 29, 2010

One can easily make this any day in Seattle and more than 50% of the time can’t go wrong with it – cos its always pakoda season here in the Emerald City. These pakodas are probable the only thing that I cooked during the weekend. This saturday AJ and I ran/walked our first half marathon [...]
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