Specifically, slices of boiled egg on slices of sourdough baguette. — This morning, Shruti (my wife) asked me how many eggs I wanted for breakfast (I wanted two). As a speciality, she sprinkles a concoction of spices — salt, pepper, red chili or cayenne powder, and chaat masala — on slices of hardboiled eggs. It leaves me licking my lips, fingers…

“Navdhanya Daal” more or less translates to “A Nine Lentil Curry” — Tryst at the grocery store. A couple of weeks ago I saw a packet of Navdhanya Mix — a mix of 9 varieties of lentils — on the shelf at my local Indian grocery store. I was not sure what I could make with it, but I knew that a pressure cooker will be involved.

Finding pink when zooming into the horizon — I recently bought my wife a 500mm f/8 manual telephoto lens, for her birthday. She is big on photographing the moon with her Pixel phone — but computational photography can only get you so far. She has been enjoying her moonshots with the telephoto. “But then, why just the moon?”…

The dark clouds did not portend rains or inclement weather. In fact, yesterday was a clear day with the sun shining bright. Although, the wind was blowing strong, creating a chilly temperature that made it uncomfortable to leave the warmth of your homes. Weather and climate continue to perplex.

Celebrating Millets! — We at CFH During WFH love millets! And we recently learned that the General Assembly of the United Nations quietly adopted and passed a resolution last year on March 5th, 2021, declaring 2023 as the International Year of Millets. Guess something good came out of 2021. Here is an excerpt…

I have been dreading this post 😅 The other day I got told off by Mom for steam-cooking okra. I got assigned a repeat cook — I did not realize that I was attending a remote culinary university. 👨‍🍳🎓 I am certainly learning new things 🙂 Specifically, this time I…

Shutter Speed Experiments — “Traffic Waves” — Somehow, the camera was able to focus on the streaks of red, white, blue and pink — from the taillights and headlights of moving traffic. And as it brought those streaks into focus, it somehow blurred everything else in the background. I think the camera shivered at…