Beef Choclo Soup

We have been kind of sick this week. I especially don’t do well during this time of the year. And the food kind of narrows down to dried ginger-black pepper tea, soup or… Read More →

Beef Neck-Bone Stock

I love my cup of soup, especially in the winter (though officially winter is over, it is still cold as far as I am concerned). As a child I remember my mom making… Read More →

Grilled Prawns and Saffron-mashed Potatoes

I had not met my closest friends in Washington DC since Christmas. Caught in the mundane aspects of life, time went by. Then my wife and I went to India for couple of… Read More →

My India Trip – Festival Food

This trip to India was also when I spent Christmas with my parents, I guess in eight years?. ..maybe even longer.  We have always been a family of travelers, living at multiple locations… Read More →

Beef Plantain Roast

Work and some photo commitments took me off the kitchen for couple of days. While at the grocery store today, I spotted some plantains and decided to make the beef plantain roast, a… Read More →

Beef Fry (Erachi Varattiyathu)

Yesterday I was flipping through my wife’s recipe book, and to my immense surprise I found my mom’s beef fry recipe written in Malayalam, my mother tongue. It turns out my mom had… Read More →