I’ve been blogging for 3+ years now and I am still not completely satisfied with the quality of my pictures. But given where I started from, I sure have come a long way! You will know what I mean if you’ve seen some of my initial posts. Most of the pictures were shot directly from the pan on the stove, using the camera flash as the light source. I have been meaning to update those old posts with new pictures for a while now, but been too lazy to do …

I am struggling  to keep my new year resolution to try and be a more “regular blogger”; without much success.  It is really hard to maintain one hobby, then I had to go and take another one on. A bunch of us are doing a project called Project 365 from the beginning of this year. The idea is to take and post a picture every day for the whole year, to journal our lives one picture at a time. I didn’t think I’d last this long, but it has become …

I haven’t posted a Naadan Kerala dish here in a while; so here goes one which qualifies in terms of ingredients at least. I kind of made up the recipe as I was cooking, so I can’t claim that it is a traditional dish. It sure tasted like one to me though. We haven’t been eating carbs at home since the beginning of this year, but suddenly I was craving for some rice yesterday along with something really spicy. Yes, all that gloating about sticking to the new year resolutions …

Yay, I finally baked a cake! And it felt great! Now I kinda understand what they mean when people say stuff like baking is therapeutic (which I always thought was b.s.). There is something about mixing up a bunch of ingredients and shoving it in the oven hoping that something great is going to come out of there. You’ve got to get it right the first time, there is no patching it up once it is done, unlike most of my dishes.  If something goes wrong, it is very difficult …

So, how are you all doing on those New Year Resolutions? Broken any yet? I don’t mean to gloat, but I’ve been doing an awesome job on mine. What? It’s only been four days since the year started? Oh well, let’s see how this week turns out before I go get myself a medal.
I heard on the radio today that the two most popular resolutions this year are Eat Healthy and Save Money. Big surprise! Aren’t those the most popular resolutions every new year? Anyway, those two are …

Throwing a dinner party is stressful. How-much-ever one likes to cook, the day of the party will always be so chaotic that will make one wonder more than once, why the heck didn’t I just order some take-out! But at the end of the day it sure is more fun to serve something homemade than the best restaurant fare in town. A small word of praise from the dinner guests is all it takes to forget all that hard work and makes you want to do this all over again.  …