Soma's Kitchen

06/22/2025

Gochujang flavored Spam, with some eggs and quick stir-fried veggies, and rice.

05/04/2025

Sautéed veggies in chili crisp oil, Korean gojuchang flavored spam, fragrant Jasmine rice.

05/01/2025

Roti, bhindi bhaaji, coconutty egg curry, and cool watermelon

04/27/2025

Simple Chicken Coconut curry, with baby potatoes and egg. The quality of the coconut cream/ milk is the most important ingredient, get a good one like Mae Ploy, your curry will be successful. Of course, here I added some extra stuff, like the fried onions and julienned ginger.

04/22/2025

Chili Chicken and Cabbage Stir-fry with Jasmine rice

04/20/2025

Bread and Butter Pudding
If you've been following my posts, you'd know by now that I'm not much of a baker. Baking seems too precise too measured too choreographed, and I like my culinary art to be free flow. Also, given a choice I'd go for salty, sour, bitter, and astringent tastes before anything sweet. Sweet always comes last. But I had a fair bit of bread and crusts left over, thought I'd give my gadget a go.

04/19/2025

Chicken Egg Noodles, Hakka style

04/05/2025

Saturday Lunch fare - wholesome, healthy, and fulfilling, because it is cooked fresh covering all the six Ayurveda tastes

03/22/2025

Sada Tawa Kulcha (simple round flatbread baked on the skillet)
Kulchas are leavened flatbreads made with refined wheat flour. They're often seen on restaurant menus and are popular in Punjabi and Mughlai cuisines. The dough is quite similar to naans. They come out so airy and fluffy!
I used yeast today, and dahi. Just as an experiment.

03/17/2025

Poori/ Luchi, aalu torkari, o soojir payesh

03/15/2025

Mango Ginger, it is a very interesting rhizome used in Indian cuisine, quite unknown to The West.
In the US, I suggest you try out the achaar made with it first. You can get a bottle at your local desi grocery shop.

Mango ginger can be regarded as the master impersonator in the plant kingdom. This spice, known as Curcuma amada in scientific lexicon, resembles ginger because

03/10/2025

My new countertop oven/ fryer/ other combo works well. I'm particularly impressed by the temperature probe.