Tag: Asia

  • Best Butter Chicken!

    Best Butter Chicken!

    We’ve had a lot of great Indian food, and of course we need to share these recipes with you, our faithful readers! Of the meals we have had here, I have really enjoyed the Butter Chicken that our host-with-the-most, Anju made for us.  Here’s her secret recipe! Preparing the Chicken 1 full head of garlic…

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  • Anju’s Cooking School – Day 2

    Anju’s Cooking School – Day 2

    We’re back again at Anju’s Cooking School in New Delhi! Anju is our teacher chef extraordinaire, while Pranav, Ravi and Ravi’s father are the taste testers and inspectors.  So far, we have passed the test! Today on the menu is Dahl and Bharta – these are two fast and easy recipes that are very flavourful.…

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  • Incredible Indian Food!

    Incredible Indian Food!

    Traditionally, we tend to do our food posts closer to the end of our stays in a country so that we compile a number of eating experiences, but we thought – “why wait until the end of our stay? Let’s do some cooking right now!” As mentioned in previous posts, our Couchsurfing hosts, Ravi, Anju…

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  • A Perfect Valentine’s Day Love Story

    A Perfect Valentine’s Day Love Story

    Happy Valentine’s Day! What better way to celebrate the holiday of love than to visit a monument of love! We walked to the Taj Mahal at 7:00 in the morning from our hotel which was only 500 meters away. The first word that came to mind when I saw it was “WOW.” It was stunning!  Everything…

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  • Agra-cadabra!

    Agra-cadabra!

    After a smooth train trip from Jaipur, we “magically” appeared in Agra…without even using that trusted magical phrase “abracadabra”!  Agra was our second stop in the “north India triangle”.  This “little town” of 1.2 million people is almost 1/2 the size of Canada’s largest city, Toronto! Having settled into our hotel, Katina found a well-rated…

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