Sabra spent a whole day watching her friend's mother make stuffed Indian breads from scratch. But she wrote about that just to make her Cookbook Catchall readers jealous. As appeasement, she offers the method for her Eggs Poha, a fried egg perched on a cake of spiced, flattened rice. It's Indian food "that is eminently doable by the layperson," she says. Picture perfect.... More

With Mark Bittman sharing the small screen with Mario Batali and Gwyneth Paltrow in Spain...On the Road Again, food blogger Sabra Krock of Cookbook Catchall takes this timely opportunity to remind us of his "Perfect Pancake" piece for the New York Times. She re-creates her favorite "foolproof" Bittman ricotta pancake recipe with syrup and blueberries. Sabra writes, "I love Mark Bittman. His recipes are always straight-forward and just work. You can never have enough Bittman."... More