To be frank, me and mom were so hurried with this recipe that I want to update this with better pictures in the future. But for now the pictures I have now will have to do. Buttermilk Chilies or Oorudu Mirapakayalu are a famous side with pappus (dals) in Andhra. For as long as I …

I used to love sweets a lot. I still do, but now because of my medicines for my diabetes, not a lot of sweets appetize me anymore. I love everything with sugar so much no wonder my body has an excess of it. When I was newly married, my mother in law made so many …

I make sambar quite regularly at home. Arlo always wants to have sambar with his idli that I make at least once every week. VJ loves it with pongal and rice too. Arlo is his father’s son when it comes to his eating habits. He loves all sort of crunchy things like his dad too. …

Okay, to be fair only one of this restaurant is in LA. The city of Angels is a huge city and the traffic is barbaric. VJ was so frustrated to drive around that he missed Kansas for a little while. Getting to LA was irritating too. I never knew traffic like this until I visited …

There’s something about the Californian air. It’s got this sense of weird calm in the air that made me feel relaxed, but it also could be that I was on vacation finally after two whole years. After being parents, VJ and I never had the opportunity to travel or have a vacation. Traveling to India …

When we were small, not just young, but smaller like when I was seven and my sister was only two, my parents used to get fresh milk from the milk-man. The same guy Ravi would come every day early in the morning to delivery freshly squeezed out buffalo milk. Buffalo milk is more common in India …

I love eating sweets – the Indian ones that my mom made for us whenever I asked her. I do enjoy the occasional doughnut, a cupcake or the sugar loaded macchiatos from Starbucks. Whenever I wanted to eat something sweet, I would beg my mom to make halwa or payasam or chikki. Sometimes she obliged, if she didn’t …

I’m very protective about my sambar recipe. Whenever I have made sambar, I have received so many compliments. The best was from my friend H, who would just keep on telling me how awesome it is. Since he moved away I have missed making it. There’s no one these days to rejoice and tell me that I …