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Curry & Cupcakes Cookbook

Curry & Cupcakes Cookbook

My Silver Lining Cookbook

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Curry and Cupcakes
My Silver Lining Cookbook
By Karen Jonson (Rishika)

What did I gain from my 14 years in the ashram of an evil cult? Well, I learned to cook delicious Indian food?

Curry and Cupcakes will share all my best recipes — and all my dishy stories of cooking in a dysfunctional ashram kitchen.

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Enjoy My Delicious, Healthy, and EASY Indian Dish Recipes!

In Curry and Cupcakes — My Silver Lining Cookbook, I have simplified the often-complex process of making delicious Indian food. There are so many spices, so many steps, so many unrecognizable ingredients. Well, not in my cookbook, because once a week, I had to whip a meal together for 50 to 500 people! There was no time for complicated steps. So I created recipes that minimize effort, while maximizing flavor.

I must have done something right, because even Indian guests at the ashram complimented me on my dishes and asked for the recipes. That’s a huge accomplishment — because Indian cooks are some of the best cooks in the world!

My fellow ashram dwellers also loved my cooking — often rushing to the community dining hall at mealtime when I was in the kitchen! Those are among my best memories of my life in a cult.

Here are just a few of the recipes in Curry and Cupcakes — My Silver Lining Cookbook:

  • Peas and paneer
  • Sumptuous Toor Dal
  • Spicy Toor Dal
  • Coconut Veggie Curry
  • Veggie Curry with Paneer
  • Savory Indian Veggie Patties
  • Carrot and Peanut Salad
  • Tasty Stir-Fried Chickpeas
  • Devi-Fried Rice
  • Delightful Zucchini Cupcakes (no eggs!)
  • Out-of-this-World Peach Cobbler

Read My Crazy — But True — Ashram Kitchen Stories, Too!

Now, I’m sharing my recipes with you — along with stories from my nutty life cooking inside the bizarro world created my two ex-fake-gurus. Read about my kitchen experiences in my ex-cult like:

  • The Too Many Beans in the Pantry Debacle
  • The Guru’s Cuckoo Kitchen Rules
  • My Kitchen Nemesis’s Regular Target Practice
  • And many more nutty — but true — stories

Curry and Cupcakes — My Silver Lining Cookbook is currently in production. If you pre-order it today, you’ll help support my ability to finish it and get it into the hands of everyone who wants to learn how to make easy, delicious, and healthy Indian food (and my specialty sweets) at home.


Curry & Cupcakes Recipes

I can’t wait to share my recipes and delicious dishes with you — so you can delight your family and friends with vegetarian Indian meals that they’ll love.

This cookbook includes the recipes I created, tested, and improved over the years — delighting hundreds of residents and guests with vegetarian meals such as peas and paneer, a variety of dals, and curries, and my many sweets, like my famous egg-less cheesecake.

I received so many compliments and requests for my recipes over the years that I decided to create this cookbook. What’s more, I experienced so many negative things in the cult, that I want to memorialize the positive aspect of my life there — learning to cook delicious Indian food from the beautiful Indian cooks I met in there in the kitchen.

A Personal Message to Readers of RishikaXcult.com

All information and photos shared in this blog, RishikaXcult.com, are for educational purposes about a public organization called Jagadguru Kripalu Parishat (JKP). All articles are written by me, Karen Jonson (aka Rishika), or by contributors who want to tell their first-hand experiences in JKP (usually anonymously).

If you have questions, please read my book first, because I tell the whole story in "Sex, Lies, and Two Hindu Gurus" (available on Amazon worldwide) and in “Sex God” (coming soon). I never share any information unless you give me permission. If you have questions, you can contact me at directly: rishika@rishikaxcult.com.

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