Comments on: Lahore Snaps IX: Home Cookin’

By: hemlock

hemlock — Sun, 01 Mar 2009 11:31:03 +0000

how long were you visiting after? im assuming you returned from perdais after a long time – hence the lavish dasterkhwan?

let it be know, you are envied. i miss real food. real desi food. real homemade desi food.
*sigh*

By: Sacrifice « The Moor’s Last Word

Sacrifice « The Moor’s Last Word — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:30:52 +0000

[...] a full day later, it occurred to me that this very goat was led to its death and reincarnated into sumptuous dishes. Such an angelic goat [...]

By: Baraka

Baraka — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 18:14:06 +0000

You’re killing me, man, killing me.

My stomach is rumbling and I am longing for a paratha and chai for brekkie. Alas, it is yogurt and fresh fruit for me, the quintessential SF brekkie which pales in comparison to all this ghee-laden fineness.

*sigh*

By: raver

raver — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:48:55 +0000

I want some of your amma’s karhi with the yummy pakoras all floating in yogurty besany goodness.

By: Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:13:59 +0000

Sorry, not “Indian”: homistani.

I suppose, though, that mid-American Jewish is my homistani quisine….

By: Jonathan Dresner

Jonathan Dresner — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:13:17 +0000

My parents do that — not cook great Indian, but take pictures of their food when they’re traveling. Lovely, lovely stuff.

Now all we need is that next-generation peripheral to make the browsing experience complete: iAroma environmental adaptor….

By: 2.4.09 Featured blogs of the day – Student Bloggers

2.4.09 Featured blogs of the day – Student Bloggers — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 17:06:38 +0000

[...] there’s nothing like a home cooked meal. We’re getting sick of the same old campus food, or having a scarce amount of it. [Chapati [...]

By: desiknitter

desiknitter — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 13:42:14 +0000

Please please post your Amma’s kadhi recipe! I love Punjabi kadhi and the subtle variations that so many families have in their recipes. Also the chukander.
The kebabs look fab, even to this non-red-meat eater.
I totally know what you mean about the sudden ability to eat seven large meals in a day. Most mysterious…

By: Another Damned Medie

Another Damned Medie — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 12:39:14 +0000

mmmmmmmm ….. goat! mmmmmmm …. dal for breakfast. Except that I only have a murgh makhni and something with aubergine. And none of it looks as good as goat.

By: sepoy

sepoy — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 11:45:06 +0000

DI: If you click on the Image ( to FLickr), you can supersize all of them.

By: Desi Italiana

Desi Italiana — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:30:22 +0000

That kadhi looks damn good (NB: Gujarati kadhi is sans the big chunks of besan in contrast to the Punjabi one).

And the dishes are prepared in such an aesthetically pleasing display!

One question, if you know the answer: how many goats went into making those dishes?

By: Desi Italiana

Desi Italiana — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:26:34 +0000

Supersize all of this, please.

By: biryanilady

biryanilady — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 09:15:52 +0000

it is not at all acceptable to post such luscious lajawab-food photos without a recipe, or two, or seven. Not.At.All.

By: Zack

Zack — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 02:48:03 +0000

I can never understand how Lahoris can have such a heavy breakfast.

Were you there for Eid or was there an aqeeqa?

By: Robina

Robina — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 01:32:26 +0000

Such delicious food!!! It can seduce anyone’s palate. Am going to Lahore in March, can’t wait. Was great to see these pics. Thnx for posting.

By: Szerelem

Szerelem — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:43:32 +0000

oh good lord. I want to eat all that, sigh.

Though off topic moong dal halwa >>> gajjar halwa. And what do you have against ojaris?

By: Salman Javaid

Salman Javaid — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:38:54 +0000

manaan bhai….. Ure reminding me of amma !!!! I miss all such food items that she used to cook for me back home in lahore…. Too bad I didn’t like the Goat stuff a lot but still was Delicious with a capital D…..
Long live Amma…. Amen

By: Buster

Buster — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:38:06 +0000

OK, goat with turnip–I want the recipe. I love both but I’ve never had them together. Willingness to share?

By: elizabeth

elizabeth — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:33:28 +0000

oh yum.

having had the great pleasure of eating at that table, I second the adjective “extraordinary”–sepoy’s Amma is the best cook I met in homistan. oh those kababs, and the gajjar halwa! also there was some channa dish that was magic. I am very hungry now.

(also: my younger sister employed your ojari-disposal strategy with vitamins as a child–as we discovered when we moved the couch to catch a mouse one of the cats had brought in, and found eighty-some pairs of chewable flintstone vitamins nearly tucked beneath the rim…)

By: sarahjane

sarahjane — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 23:27:08 +0000

omg i am dying over here! YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM