The Kitchen Operas

I think Vegan MoFo is a great excuse to go eat some vegan food around town, so off I went with the boyfriend and his Mum to one of my favourite places in town: Nunu (1178 Queen St. West, Toronto). I was first introduce to Nunu by my best friend Pem, and we have eaten [...]

Mahara Jai Singh built the city of Jaipur, in 1727.  In the city, he built the Jantar Mahal, an observatory using astronomical instruments for astrological readings.  It’s now a World Heritage site, and I think you can see why: This is a sundial — and it’s really impressive (at about 4 stories high!): And it’s [...]

Okra looks like baby stars when you slice it: Want to know about okra’s amazing health benefits?  Holistic Nutritionist, Meghan Telpner, has explained it all at her blog.  You must go check it out. You may remember my okra adventures from my trip to South Carolina, where they had okra chips!  The vacuum-fried okra solved [...]

This lentil & root veggie curry may not be the prettiest to look at (and photographed by candlelight and fluorescents doesn’t help, but give me a break, it was cottage time), but it sure is DIVINE. I made it as a vegetarian response to all the meaty/fishy things the boys were eating up at the [...]

Woooo!  A celebration is in order!  Yesterday’s Red Quinoa Salad was my 100th blog post on Kitchen Operas!  It’s been such fun for me to start this blog, and here’s to many hundreds more!!! I would love to say a huge thank you to all of you who read, subscribe to, and comment on the [...]

The boyfriend’s Dad is from Trinidad, and I love curries.  So naturally, whenever he’s cooking, I’m in the kitchen, spying and taking copious notes. This curry is one of my absolute favourites, that I learned a few years ago and have since made my own: channa (chickpea) and aloo (potato).  It’s the base curry for [...]

By now, I don’t think I need to introduce my fabulous Pem to you… (you know, Pem who took me to San Miguel, and also inspired Carrot Koshambri, Red Curry Quinoa, Kale & Lentil Dal) but she’s inspired another recipe. This is one of her mum’s (Pria’s) standbys, and I need to learn her secrets, [...]

This is my new absolute favourite way to eat carrots. I was over at my dear friend Pem’s place (yes, the Pem who inspired my Thai Red Curry Quinoa and Kale & Lentil Dal) to make Indian food for dinner this week.  We decided to revisit the Kale & Lentil Dal, adding the wonderful deeper [...]

Ohhh, this curry is definitely in my top 5 meals.  We make it at least once a week around here, and get even excited that it’s leftover night the next day. The recipe originally started out as one from a cookbook belonging to my friend Pem, The Kundalini Yoga Cookbook.  This cookbook uses ‘handful’ measures [...]