Vegan Curried Butternut Squash Soup with Millet Tots

Butternut squash Soup with Millet tots

A couple of days ago, I got to visit The RollinGreens team in Boulder. RollinGreens used to be a food truck that  Husband and wife team, Chef Ryan “Ko” Cunningham and Lindsey Cunningham, turned into a packaged product business. And hence the wholesome Millet Tots were born. After the visit, I couldn’t wait to come home and make this Vegan Curried Butternut Squash Soup with Millet Tots. What are Millets? Millet is a pseudo grain and a member of the grass family Poaceae which produces a dry, edible one-seeded fruit, “caryopsis,” commonly called a kernel, grain or berry. The grain is …

Pressure Cooked French Lentil and Vegetable Soup

  “It can’t be fall yet,” my heart says. I want the summer to last a bit longer, just a bit longer. I do like fall or Harud as we called it back home in Kashmir. But it is just that the arrival of fall also means and end of summer and beginning of colder days and nights. But fall is approaching soon, the leaves are turning and there is a nip in the air. Just the sort that makes you bring out the oven mitts and start baking. It was that kind of a day today. So I stopped …

Maque Choux Soup

Hello and welcome to my dining room where I present the next course of the Progressive Eats – This is the e – version of Progressive Dinners of yore.  Carefully planned and brought to fruition  by Barb at Creative-Culinary.   As in the days past, when people would get together for a meal and move from home to home for different courses; we are getting together  to throw a virtual progressive dinner party and invite our readers to come join us in this fun event.  The only difference is, you will be moving home to home in different cities!  To kick off the party, Lana at …

Bean and Quinoa Chilli

  “When we least expect it, life sets us a challenge to test our courage and willingness to change; at such a moment, there is no point in pretending that nothing has happened or in saying that we are not yet ready. The challenge will not wait.” Paulo Coelho It has been a long pause on the blog. Off late that seems to be norm than the occasional break. Since many of you asked what was going on, I thought I will do something that I have never done before – share what’s going on in life with all of …

Kadhi Pakoda – Yogurt & Chickpea Flour Soup with Baked Fenugreek Fritters

    Dahi in Hindi/Urdu, Zamut do’dh in Kashmiri, Thayir in Tamil, Doi in Bengali, Perugu in Telugu and yogurt in English. Yogurt is  an important part of the Indian food culture across the nation.  And it was an important part of the meal at home. It was served with every meal.  As a lassi – watered down with an addition of mint and spices or just as is.   It is my grandmother’s favorite food.  On most days she adds in yogurt to her rice, with a pinch of salt and some mint – walnut chutney and her lunch …

Tomato Soup – Nourishing comfort

I had big plans for this week’s power food – the tomato. After all it is my favorite vegetable fruit. If nothing else, I simply use them in a salad. So I was kind of making plans to be flamboyant about the whole tomato thing. And then the day arrived when I had to cook, shoot and write the post for this week’s Power food blog group. It was raining. Soft droplets of rain falling ever so softly and making the beautiful Rocky Mountains look even more beautiful. The scorched earth soaked it all up and the greens looked more …