Ham and Cheese Crepes

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 6/8/2013 9:10:00 AM

'I have been super busy the past two months. Just completed a very big and very important project in life that will serve as a retirement cushion. So pretty stoked! But what that necessarily entailed, was me not having time for the small pleasures in life – like cooking something exciting and blogging about it. The co-resident plays football every Saturday morning and comes home ravenously'

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Chicken Ghee Roast (Warning - It's Red Hot!)

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 4/17/2013 9:44:00 AM

'Why am I giving you a recipe for a crazy-red-hot dish in the middle of summer? Have I lost my bonkers (and my taste buds)? Ahem ahem… that was a nice opening spiel, don’t you think? Now, getting down to business. If you think about it – all the ‘hottest’ food in the world comes from the ‘hottest’ places. Mexico, Indonesia, Andhra Pradesh, Nagaland…all famous for foods that send you running'

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Baingan Bharta (Indian Spiced Aubergine/ Eggplant Mash)

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 4/5/2013 5:21:00 AM

'Baingan Bharta is something that I was introduced to seven years ago. (Basically, ever since I started working and it was de rigueur to have lunch in the office cafeteria!). The cafeteria food sucked. And day after day it was pure torture to let the undercooked, over spiced, all-round-sad food enter our mouths. I could have opted to take a lunchbox from home, but it was just too much work'

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Chingri Malai Curry (Bengali Prawn and Coconut Curry)

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 3/28/2013 5:40:00 AM

'Bengali food resonates with me on a deeper level even though I’m a pucca Southie. Maybe it’s the rice that bonds us (Bengali’s also eat rice with every meal!), or maybe my love for rosogullas and rasamalai’s have sweetened me towards them, or maybe it’s the fact that half the employees in my ex-company were Bengali! For whatever reason, I love Bengali food. The one thing that I always'

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Launching 'The FoodPorn Diaries'

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 3/20/2013 3:32:00 PM

'After pondering over many moons, I've decided to separate my recipe and restaurant reviews. Food for Swaps has always been about documenting the recipes that are dear to me and work in my kitchen. Or the ones that have failed miserably and I never want to try again. Photographing my escapades in the kitchen and sharing them with you, so that you can have tried and tested recipes to fall'

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What does Masterchef Australia and The Whitefield Baking Company have in common? - Kate Bracks!!!

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 3/15/2013 6:43:00 PM

'Masterchef Australia can be credited with starting a revolution that completely altered that way that anyone approaches food. It has within the span of three years turned the nation (and I mean India here) into a completely food obsessed one. Not that we were not connoisseurs of the good stuff already, but the appreciation and knowledge of a variety of cuisines and techniques definitely'

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Smokehouse DELI in Bangalore! (Indiranagar, Bangalore)

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 3/11/2013 4:10:00 AM

'I don’t want to be biased…no I really don’t. But I couldn’t help doing cartwheels when Smokehouse Deli finally opened in Bangalore a week ago. I remember driving down 100ft road and doing a double take in Feb when I saw the huge glass façade with the black and white writing that said ‘Smokehou’ (the rest of it was covered, but I knew it my heart it had to be Smokehouse Deli. For all'

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Baked Pesto Chicken

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 3/5/2013 8:23:00 AM

'It’s already March and I still haven’t put up a pesto recipe! That’s Pesto Blasphemy in my books. You all know my heart skips a beat when I talk about Pesto. Every time I see good basil leaves in the market, I’m rushing home to make pesto. Because of my obsession with it, my friend even ribs me and asks me when I’m making pesto ice cream?! The flak I receive for my addiction, has led me'

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Signature Tasting Menu @ Peshawari Tandoor by Turquoise (Koramangala, Bangalore)

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 2/25/2013 10:36:00 AM

'I have eaten at Turquoise and Peshawari Tandoor a couple of times and have always enjoyed their food. The restaurant plates their food beautifully and after seeing some pictures of the Sunday brunch captured by my fellow foodie Harsha (of the FB group Bakasura) I had to go and get click crazy! The reason I haven’t written about it for so long (almost a year!) has been two fold (a) My'

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Cinnamon Sugar Muffins

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 2/18/2013 9:49:00 AM

'Some things in life are simple. 1+1=2, beach + margarita = holiday and cinnamon + sugar = awesomeness! When I chanced upon this recipe, I was skeptical. The ingredient list was small. The process was easy. And the final product seemed very basic. But the more I kept thinking about the muffin that’s going to be coated with cinnamon sugar, the more I wanted to make it. The story goes back'

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Zomato Lunch with Rocky and Mayur (HOMP) @ Bak Bak Bar (Koramangala, Bangalore)

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 2/11/2013 8:49:00 AM

'(Pic Courtesy: Ruth and Sudhakar Prabhu) I was sick with fever last week…so sick that I couldn’t get out of bed. What bothered me more than being sick, was missing the Zomato Food Guide 2013 launch at the Sheraton! And to add to the misery, Zomato had a special treat lined up for food bloggers over the weekend – a lunch date with NDTV’s Highway on my Plate superstars – Rocky and Mayur!!'

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Bloggers Table - Blue Terrain @ Novotel, ORR, Bangalore

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 2/2/2013 4:27:00 AM

'My first Bloggers Table. Actually make that the ‘first ever’ edition of the Bangalore Bloggers Table! Was I excited? Yes!! The feisty group of women (we’re still looking for that elusive male to be a member of the group) had all been interacting on facebook for a month now, but chatting over a martini is always more fun! We were hosted by Novotel, Bangalore and were lucky to be invited to'

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Strawberries and Banana Breakfast Smoothie

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 1/24/2013 11:17:00 AM

'My fridge is filled with boxes and boxes of Strawberries. Yes, tis the season to be jolly …again! I’ve raved about my strawberry love many times before so you already know I’m crazy about the little suckers. And I always stock up whenever they come around. Apart from eating them dunked in hot chocolate fudge or enjoying them with the traditional fresh cream I also like to make a mean'

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Penne a La Vodka

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 1/18/2013 9:29:00 AM

'I’m still detoxing after the excesses of December, but this dish needed to get made! I just got assigned an additional role at work and to add to that, we have a new boss. Changes, changes, changes – how I hate them! (Especially, when I’m not the one making them!) Since I’d sworn off alcohol atleast for a month (part of the detox plan), I needed to find an alternative. (And No, I can’t'

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Fattoush Hummus (Lebanese Bread Salad)

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 1/12/2013 7:41:00 AM

'The first time I ate Fattoush, I didn’t pay much attention to it. It was my accompaniment to the more interesting Shawarma. And in the Bangalore of 2000, a Shawarma with all its trimmings was very very exotic. A vertical spit roaster filled with chicken slices rotating ever so slowly, while the chef toasted and filled the strange yeasty bread with Hummus, Tahini, salad and finally the'

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Detox Water for a fresh start in 2013!

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 1/4/2013 8:18:00 AM

'Let’s get to the basics first…The mayans were wrong, we all lived to see another day and stuff our faces silly… so HAPPY NEW YEAR! Unfortunately, that also means we live to see the ‘consequences’ of stuffing our faces silly. I would love a world where good food and drink don’t add to the waistline but …. That’s not true! So yes, I was looking for shortcuts - because everyone will try one'

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Chocolate Torte in Twenty (Flourless Chocolate Cake)

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 12/26/2012 12:09:00 PM

'I know I’m a day late, but Merry Christmas nevertheless! I had planned to put up a Christmassy recipe, but after seeing the blogosphere jam packed with everything plum pudding-y and fruit cake-y and mince meat pie-y, I decided otherwise. I’m no expert in this area anyway, so why bother trying?! With my friend coming down to town, my mom’s birthday and finally Christmas - the past week had'

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Asian Grill Festival at Shiro (UB City, Bangalore)

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 12/10/2012 11:49:00 AM

'UB City has become one of my favorite places to hang out. The open air cafés and restaurants, the dancing fountain, the easy relaxed pace in the evening under the stars – I always feel like I’m out of Bangalore. Sunday brunches at Shiro – the pan Asian restaurant, is an indulgence that I often dip into. The Zen like ambience with the giant statues and the serene Buddha never fail to get me'

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Cannellini Bean Dip

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 12/4/2012 12:47:00 PM

'If you ever get bored of eating hummus (highly unlikely) this dip will easily fill the void. And ‘easily’ is the key word here. It takes all of 5 mins to whip this up and you can flaunt it around in your guest’s faces as some exotic dish. Unless of course, the guest happens to be my Mom. In that case, the story will differ. She will just take a whiff of it and declare with uber confidence'

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Souza Lobo (Calangute Beach, North Goa)

Author : Swaps      Blog : Food for Swaps      Date : 11/26/2012 4:23:00 PM

'Like every self respecting yuppie Indian, who was exposed to the wonderland that is Goa at a young age, I come to consider it my second home. A Goan may frown upon this notion or ignore it altogether, but for me the feeling of belonging in Goa is so complete that, I in turn frown upon the ‘other’ tourists. So leaving this merry-go-around of who the state belongs to, let me get down to'

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