Smoked Clove and Orange Sable Cookies

A few months ago I was at my cousin’s wedding in Florida. One of my cousins has learned a trick using cloves from her Punjabi friends to get her henna/mendhi darker. She added a few cloves to an empty skillet over high heat and roasted them and toasted her hands over the cloves. The entire […]
Masala Pasta

*This blog post is sponsored by Barilla, all recipes and opinions are my own* Growing up, the rule in my house if I didn’t want what my mom made for dinner, I had to cook my own meal. And growing up in Northern NJ, I always wanted pasta. But while I’d cook pasta, my mother […]