Spiced Spinach

Tenkei loves cooked spinach so when we serve curried lentils as a main dish, I like to serve this instead of a green leafy salad. I vaguely remember that when we used to dine out at the local Indian restaurant in the 1980’s green leafy salad was not on the menu. If someone asked for […]

Mango with Almond “Tofu”

Almond “tofu” reminds me of our visits to Japan and China where dessert was often canned fruit and glace cherries drenched in a light syrup with exotic cubes of almond-flavoured jelly. At the time I could never figure out what the cubes were, imagining they might be a fruit I’d never heard of? Turns out they […]