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Besan Cashew Halwa

By Vaishali | Updated on April 17, 2017 | Posted on October 10, 2013 | 20 Comments

In India, right now, 'tis the season to be holy. Everyone's just winding down from a birthday bash for Ganesh the elephant-headed god, Dussehra's already at the doorstep, and Diwali will be here ...

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Gluten Free Vegan Recipes, Indian Vegan Recipes, Travel, Vegan Indian Sweets

Mumbai: Life Along the Railway Tracks

By Vaishali | Updated on May 25, 2017 | Posted on October 1, 2013 | 14 Comments

The local trains of Mumbai are as legendary and chaotic as the city itself. Each day they chug across a vast network of tracks, ferrying millions of passengers from far-flung suburbs to work and ...

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South India: Life in Pictures

By Vaishali | Updated on March 17, 2016 | Posted on September 15, 2013 | 13 Comments

In Madurai, one of south India's biggest cities, peddlers beg visitors to shell out a few rupees for their wares just outside the 350-year-old Meenakshi temple, home to a towering pillar covered in ...

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Bombay: Life in Pictures

By Vaishali | Updated on January 11, 2019 | Posted on September 9, 2013 | 14 Comments

It’s hard to imagine a city as crowded, as frustrating, as vibrant, as ugly and as beautiful as Bombay. Today, Desi and I are in the city known to the world as Mumbai, but always Bombay to us. It ...

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Pulao with Eggplant

By Vaishali | Updated on October 27, 2019 | Posted on March 1, 2012 | 23 Comments

eggplant pulao

Before I learned how to boil water, I read an article in a Bombay newspaper about the great filmmaker Ismail Merchant and his passion for cooking. The reporter had spent a day with Merchant as he ...

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Andhra-Style Stuffed Eggplants, And Tips For Traveling Vegan In India

By Vaishali | Updated on January 4, 2019 | Posted on February 3, 2011 | 17 Comments

India is point zero for vegetarianism. More than 30 percent of the country's billion-plus residents shun meat -- in fact most people in this group have never, ever eaten a creature that once ...

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Poori Bhaji

By Vaishali | Updated on February 1, 2019 | Posted on January 7, 2011 | 19 Comments

Puri Bhaji

Poori Bhaji(puri bhaji) is about as delicious as Indian food gets: and by that I mean pick-your-fingernails-with-your-teeth-to-devour-every-last-crumb delicious. This is pure comfort food: the kind ...

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Eggless Baking, Indian street food, Indian Vegan Recipes, Travel, Vegan Marathi Recipes

Lovely Lisboa

By Vaishali | Updated on March 15, 2016 | Posted on December 15, 2010 | 18 Comments

The sidewalks of Lisbon deserve an ode themselves. They curve, sweep, stagger, climb and drop, leaving a visitor dizzy. But it’s not just that. Paved with sturdy, usually ivory-white cubes of hardy ...

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Lucy the Road Tripper

By Vaishali | Updated on May 2, 2019 | Posted on October 21, 2010 | 18 Comments

Over the long Columbus Day weekend, Desi, Lucy and I took a short road trip through upstate New York. As much as we love to go on road trips, and despite the many, many pet parents we always encounter ...

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Vaidehi Manni’s Super-Crispy Potato Vada

By Vaishali | Updated on April 17, 2017 | Posted on May 11, 2010 | 30 Comments

This recipe for a South Indian style Super Crispy Potato Vada is from my sister-in-law, Vaidehi Manni. Madras is a bursting, flourishing metropolis in the south Indian state of Tamil Nadu that ...

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Vegetable Vindaloo

By Vaishali | Updated on December 4, 2019 | Posted on November 16, 2009 | 36 Comments

When the flower children went east looking for spiritual enlightenment, it is not surprising that many ended up in Goa, a lush paradise along India's scenic west coast. Not surprising because not only ...

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Filed Under: All Recipes, Gluten Free Vegan Recipes, Travel, Vegan Goan Recipes, Vegan Konkani Recipes

Moong Dal Dosa, and Mayberry

By Vaishali | Updated on April 17, 2017 | Posted on October 12, 2009 | 17 Comments

Mount Airy is a gorgeous, sleepy town nestled in the valley of the Blue Ridge Mountains right near where North Carolina meets Virginia. Once you've driven into town past the inevitable neon-lit ...

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Zunka Bhakar

By Vaishali | Updated on June 4, 2019 | Posted on July 7, 2009 | 24 Comments

Zunka Bhakar

I once spent a magical year in Pune, a then-sleepy city three hours southeast of Bombay's concrete jungle, and nestled in the emerald-green valley of India's Western ghats. To a young woman from a ...

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Pav Bhaji

By Vaishali | Updated on December 20, 2018 | Posted on June 20, 2009 | 22 Comments

Pav Bhaji - holycowvegan.net

Pav Bhaji is the ultimate street snack from the city of my birth, Bombay. It's a mad mash of potatoes, onions, cauliflower, green peppers, green peas and spices, and you scoop it up with an airy, soft ...

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I cook and eat simple, tasty and nutritious plant-based food in my Washington, D.C. kitchen, but I never fight a craving for samosas or French fries. More about me >>

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