chick peas two ways: tea-and-chili chana

I’m posting these recipes in order of appearance, but this was actually the one I wanted to try first. Except that, for once, I didn’t have any chilis in the house, so the amchur recipe got made first. When I did make this one, I still (as usual) used the wrong kind of pepper. Most [...]

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chick peas two ways: amchur chana

I received 660 Curries as a gift last year, but didn’t make anything from it straightaway because it was August and too hot to cook. My birthday falls in that part of the New York summer when it’s hot enough long enough that it’s still 89 degrees at midnight, which can mean little use for [...]

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mexican hot chocolate snickerdoodles

… or, cookies I’m not allowed to bring over to the BFF’s home without an alternate choice of dessert for her husband. (The story: I brought chocolate-chai snickerdoodles to the BFF when I visited her in the hospital after she delivered her son. I don’t think she actually got to eat any, but her husband [...]

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