Indian Cuisine Improvisations By Shyam

Whenever somebody asks me "what is Russian food?", I have hard time answering it. It is whatever we cooked at home in Russia. Same goes for Shyam and Indian food. It is only as being an outsider to any country or region, one can fit a whole cuisine of that region/country into few specific dishes and blissfully ignore all the other dishes that can be produced with any number of ingredients from that region/country. One has to go beyond a few specific recipes to truly cook a dish from a different cuisine. One has to understand the local ingredients and methods and then a whole new world of possibilities opens up.