2022 Review, 2023 New Year Goals and Kickoff
New year, New goals, New exciting things on the blog! Hello everyone and Happy New Year! Its the weekend of the first week of 2023 and I wanted to kickoff…
How To Make Sylvia’s Crazy Good Must Try Mutton Biriyani
Welcome to another episode of who's biriyani is it anyway. No just kidding. This is a recipe post though. Without further ado.. let's dive right into the recipe. Ingredients Mutton…
One Teacher’s Random Act of Kindness In Elementary School
I'm back with another edition of my Random Acts of Kindness series. This one goes back a few decades... all the way back to Elementary school days! Happy reading 🙂…
How to make yoghurt raitha, the mandatory biriyani accompaniment
Yoghurt raitha (raita per Merriam Webster) or as we say in Tamil - Thayir Pachadi is the single mandatory accompaniment (IMHO) to biriyani. Typically, this side dish is all one…
Random act of kindness – at thirty thousand feet
This blog post is part of my series on Random Acts of Kindness. Any unexpected, unprovoked action from strangers or lesser known acquaintances that catch us not only by surprise…
Complete strangers, random acts of kindness & unsuspecting recipients
It was summer circa 2002. I was in the final year of my undergraduate degree and took it upon myself to present as many technical papers at various engineering symposia…
The only eggplant salna you need with mutton biriyani
Just as I promised, here's a brief write-up for the perfect side to go with biriyani (mutton or otherwise). I'll admit to having searched for several different types of eggplant…
My tried and tested south Indian mutton biriyani recipe
If I've learnt anything from looking up recipes hurriedly online, it is to get to the recipe right away and save the history for later. Help readers by minimizing how…
Winter is here and making its presence known!
Before the storm Its a crisp, frigid January winter day here in Ohio. We started the morning at 3F! I've also seen a wind chill warning in effect for most…
Every which way to do parent/child dates
Every day new trends emerge. There are enough parenting books out there to drown us with advice on how to improve parent/child interactions and relationships. With three young kids and…