Posts Tagged “Indian food”

Mandira’s Kitchen at Home

Mandira’s Kitchen at Home

Restaurant Quality. So many of us love the spice and complexity of authentic Indian food. Now we have an alternative to the local take-away.  Mandira’s Kitchen can deliver delicious meals to one’s door. Mandira moved to the UK with no cooking skills. She missed the tastes of home but spent the next 17 years working…

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Burpee Cucumber ‘Prolific’ and Curry

Burpee Cucumber ‘Prolific’ and Curry

Cucumber ‘Prolific’ (sometimes also known as ‘Brocade’) A fascinating and useful cucurbit originating in South East Asia. It is a versatile variety known locally as ‘Sambar Southekai’ that can be used in a wide range of dishes. Fruits can be stored in cool dry conditions for months after harvest. Plants are similar in growth to…

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Spice Kitchen – A Tasteful Gift

Spice Kitchen – A Tasteful Gift

Spice tins and much more Spice Kitchen offers so much for the spice lover. Those enthusiasts can not only enjoy Indian spice collections but others too! African and Middle Eastern selections, world spices and BBQ rubs, spices for kids, Moroccan spices, salts and even gin botanicals are all here to tempt. I have been impressed…

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From Gujarat with Love

From Gujarat with Love

100 Authentic Indian Vegetarian Recipes Author Vina Patel now lives in the US although she was born and grew up in Gujarat in India. She therefore has a perspective on which authentic Gujarati recipes will work for an international audience as well as natives of the subcontinent. The foods of this west-coast region are traditionally…

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Pico – a kick of spice

Pico – a kick of spice

An authentic taste of modern India The ‘Pico’ concept saw the light of day in a café off Baker Street in London. The co-founders discovered that 1.3 billion people living in India had access to only 3 brands of ketchup! They planned to launch a new delicious and diverse brand of sauces for India. After…

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Cafe Spice Namaste Helping Out

Cafe Spice Namaste Helping Out

Café Spice Namaste adopts Eat Out to Help Out concept throughout the week  Cyrus and Pervin Todiwala have announced that their flagship Indian restaurant, Café Spice Namaste, will be extending the concept of HM Government’s Eat Out to Help Out scheme throughout its entire operating week, up to the end of August. Café Spice Namaste…

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Farzi Café in Haymarket

Farzi Café in Haymarket

Haymarket is an historic street in central London. Connecting Pall Mall with Piccadilly, Haymarket dates back to Elizabethan times and, unsurprisingly, it was once a market for the sale of agricultural produce next to the village of Charing. The thought of this sleepy hamlet will make Londoners smile, as Charing Cross is now a vibrant…

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