A Chicken or Two

We launched high quality chicken and mutton (goat meat) just over 2 weeks ago. And just last Sunday our first few Heat & Eat chicken and mutton dishes were rolled out. A few more will be added over the span of this week. It’s taken us a while to introduce these products, I mean we started with just fish and all kinds of seafood a fair amount of time ago right? We just wanted to be sure that the quality of chicken and mutton we offered met the same high…

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Cracking the Code: Your Guide to Cooking with Octopus

Deep Down Inside (the sea) Octopus is as common as prawns and fish along the coast. I can’t really remember the first time I ate octopus; it was definitely not in my growing years—we stuck to freshly caught river fish, since salt-water fish was almost impossible to procure in our nook of the hinterland. Adulthood ushered in experimenting with newer foods, which was further supported by the move to a bigger city with more food-crazy people to make friends with and eateries that welcomed patrons looking for new experiences. Honest…

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Heat & Eat- Plenty of Delish!

Once Upon a Time Remember those sabzi mandis or bazaars our fathers and mothers used to take us to once a week, usually on Sundays? These were the original farmers’ markets—some of the farm-fresh produce was brought and sold by producers themselves, so even if you haggled and negotiated on a mutually acceptable price, the profit was pocketed directly by growers, and you came back happy with bags of bright greens, fragrant herbs, pantry staples and crisp veggies. Shopping for veggies, fruit and meat happened once or twice a week,…

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15 Tell-Tale Signs You Are a Seafood Lover

You enjoy your seafood but would you call yourself a seafood enthusiast? Well, if these traits apply to you then you may consider yourself a true blue seafood lover! 1. You proudly refer to yourself not just as a foodie but as a ‘seafoodie’. 2. When it’s vacation time, you invariably choose a coastal place as your holiday destination so you can gorge on a variety of scrumptious seafood. Malabar Mathi Curry. A reason enough to visit Kerala, God’s own country. 3. No meal is complete without some condiments. In your case, no…

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The Twain Do Meet: 10 Delish Fusion Seafood Recipes

We live in the times of chicken tikka pizza and curry noodles, Parle-G cheesecake and Baileys gulab jamun, khichdi arancini and masala risotto. The most ‘foreign’ flavours, right from cheese and mayonnaise, ketchup and soy sauce, and especially chocolate have permeated our culinary DNA so deep, cheese pav bhaji and chocolate burfi are now mainstream menu items. Fusion food has been around for several centuries, and the simplest everyday example is that of the samosa. The samosa was introduced to India in the 13th or 14th century from the Middle…

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