Gifts and WFN update

Last week was my lucky week, culinary gift-wise!

Firstly, some lovely but unknown person sent me a St Valentine's Day present of two bottle of Gran Campo Viejo Cava, which according to online resources is a very nice little sparkly. I'm a firm believer in the idea that waking up in the morning is reason enough to open bubbly, so this weekend I'll be cracking one open and celebrating (and thank you Anonymous Giver, if you're reading this!).

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Secondly, I won a cookbook from one of fresh magazine's competitions - somewhat aptly entitled Fresh Indian: Over 80 Healthy Indian Recipes. It's by Sunil Vijayakar, author of various other cookbooks on Indian cuisine, wok food and deepfrying. The book offers a wide array of recipes declared to be light, fresh, healthy and void of the heavy spicing, heavy cream, heavy oil and heavy taste that 'English Indian' food is infamous for. A quick flick through seems to back this claim up, as well as showing some gorgeous food photography. An interesting addition is the nutritional information for each serving, as well as a "Healthy Tip" for each dish. All in all, a very nice freebie.

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And finally, here's links to a couple of articles I wrote for the Paper Palate on the Well Fed Network:

Review: Fresh magazine March 2006 issue

Recipe: Caesar Salad with Tabasco Onions  (yum!)

Comments

[sam]

I have a different 'healthy' indian cook book and I absolutely love it - so I am looking forward to hearing how you get on with this one too.

sam

(PS good job on the VD gifts. it's been a long long time since any such thing happened to me!)