List of my Cookbooks

My Family keeps complaining about the number of cookbooks I have & it always surprises me coz I don’t think I have nearly as many as I should! (My opinion changed after I finished generating this list :-) )

1. Lord Krishna's Cuisine: The Art of Indian Vegetarian Cooking
2. Classic Indian Vegetarian and Grain Cooking
3. Fresh from the Vegetarian Slow Cooker
4. 125 Best Vegetarian Slow Cooker Recipes
5. Madhur Jaffrey's World Vegetarian
6. Madhur Jaffrey's World-of-the-East Vegetarian Cooking
7. The Art of Tofu (Art of Tofu)
8. Silk Road Cooking: A Vegetarian Journey
   
9. Vegan World Fusion Cuisine
10. Weight Watchers Versatile Vegetarian
11. Vegetarian Soups for All Seasons
12. A Beautiful Bowl of Soup: The Best Vegetarian Recipes
13. New Vegetarian: Bold and Beautiful Recipes for Every Occasion
14. Vegetarian Table: France
15. Vegetarian Table: Italy
16. A Passion for Desserts
17. Millennium Cookbook: Extraordinary Vegetarian Cuisine
18. The Candle Cafe Cookbook
19. Fresh Food Fast: Delicious, Seasonal Vegetarian Meals in Under an Hour
20. The Modern Vegetarian Kitchen
21. Vegetarian Sandwiches: Fresh Fillings for Slices, Pockets, Wraps, and Rolls
22. Dakshin: Vegetarian Cuisine from South India
23. Samayal: The Pleasures of South Indian Vegetarian Cooking
24. The Best of Samaithu Paar
25. Cook and see (Samaithu paar) VOL 1, 2 ,3
26. The Vegetarian Lunchbasket
27. The Roasted Vegetable
28. Real Vegetarian Thai
29. The Best Of Cooking Light
30. Cooking Light Annual Recipes 2005
31. Student's Vegetarian Cookbook
32. The New Vegan Cookbook: Innovative Vegetarian Recipes Free of Dairy, Eggs, and Cholesterol
33. Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone
34. The Rancho La Puerta Cookbook : 175 Bold Vegetarian Recipes from America's Premier Fitness Spa
35. Sanjeev Kapoor's Low Calorie Vegetarian cookbook
36. Sanjeev Kapoor's Khazana of Vegetarian Indian recipes
37. Vegetarian Mughlai Khaana
    
38. Vegetarian Maharashtrian Cuisine
39. Zero oil cookbook

The following are all books by Tarla Dalal, an author who is extremely popular in India. Apart from her amazing books on regional Indian cooking, she has good books on “Indianized” version of a few other cuisines.

Fusion cuisine is pretty big in India. Many international recipes are often adjusted to suit the Indian palate. For example, the Indo-Chinese cuisine. This kind of cuisine is thought to have evolved in the early 1900's when many Hakka Chinese migrated from Canton Province, China to Calcutta, India, to escape from opium warfare and other political issues. This fusion cuisine is extremely popular even in small towns and chances are, when an Indian talks about loving Chinese food, it’s this fusion they are referring to.

I personally prefer this version of Chinese food to the version commonly available in the US. Both Chicago and Atlanta have a restaurant named "Hot wok" which serves out of this world Indo-Chinese cuisine.

Tarla Dalal's " Easy Chinese cooking" lists out many such Indo-Chinese recipes.

Now Getting back to my list .....:-)

40. Complete gujarati Cookbook
41. Complete Rajasthani cookbook
42. Desi Khana
43. Ice Cream and Frozen desserts
44. The complete Italian cookbook
45. Tava Cooking
46. Chaat
47. Rotis & Subzis
48. Mexican cooking
49. Sizzlers & Barbeques
50. Eggless Desserts
51. The chocolate cookbook
52. Chinese cookbook
53. Easy Chinese cooking
54. Healthy heart cookbook
55. Cooking with 1 teaspoon of oil
56. Microwave Snacks and Desserts
57. Swadisht Subzian (Delicious Vegetables)
58. Low calorie healthy cooking
59. Soups and salads
60. Microwave Desi Khana (Microwave Indian Recipes)
61. Mithai
62. Delicious Diabetic Recipes

For an individual with IT background, I have been a very late entrant to the blogging phenomenon. But seeing the wealth of “blogged” information finally inspired me to start my own little blog! I think of this as a great way of sharing little details of my life with my family and friends while making new ones.

Just to give a brief background, I was born and raised in Nagpur, India. I moved to the United States six years ago, completed my degree in Computer Science and joined the IT Leadership Program of a Fortune 100 company. I am currently based in Chicago & work in the business intelligence arena & I love my job!

I count reading, traveling and cooking among my hobbies (or as my family complains, I love to collect cookbooks more than I love to cook!). Love to play racquetball when I can – its one game that I truly enjoy.

Thanks for stopping by and taking the time to read. Hope to see you again!