Snapshots

August 4, 2015 April 25, 2019 / Instagram, Photography

From the grimy lens of the mobile phone.

No filter kvass

No filter kvass

Bless the inventor of the modern oven.

Bless the inventor of the modern oven.

The most fun part of @doubledouble_delhi for me is

The most fun part of @doubledouble_delhi for me is getting to try new recipes and skills. After making three dozen galettes with dough I'd made earlier in a big batch, we realized we had committed to one more! 🙈 Whipped up a smol ball of flaky dough by hand and slid the last pastry into the oven in ten minutes - feeling most accomplished ☺️.

Disappearing Delhi

Disappearing Delhi

Let's go shopping, a #Bhogal appreciation post.

Let's go shopping, a #Bhogal appreciation post.

Summer 2016, when Trump was still a dark cloud on

Summer 2016, when Trump was still a dark cloud on the horizon. Strange how living outside the US for so long hasn't diminished the feeling of belonging to a very different America than the country we've seen only the worst sides of recently. If anything, voting via absentee ballot is a regular reminder of how inclusive the idea of America can be if we keep working towards it. Hoping against hope that dark cloud is banished today.

Yes yes I know what they say about persimmons and

Yes yes I know what they say about persimmons and dairy... #deadlycombination

Portal to another dimension or Delhi park ornament

Portal to another dimension or Delhi park ornamentation?

When @rajnithegeorge posts you Seville oranges all

When @rajnithegeorge posts you Seville oranges all the way from Kodaikanal, you start making bitter orange wine aperitif! Winter sunshine in a bottle.

#Sevilleorange #bitterorange #rosé #vindorange #aperitif

Haak saag, juicy fishies and oven-deflated cherry

Haak saag, juicy fishies and oven-deflated cherry tomatoes for a colorful skillet.

#haak #saag #cherrytomato #swordfish

Stirring up questions of taste, optics, purity, an

Stirring up questions of taste, optics, purity, and touch, my story on EATING CLEAN in the new issue of The Indian Quarterly chews on the unlockdown experience of people in the Indian restaurant industry. Free to read at the Magzter link in bio, the story is on p128.
(Illustration my own 🙈)

#indianfood #pandemic #restaurants #eatingclean #longform #sanitizer #appetizers #theindianquarterly #restaurants #unlockdown #india #eatingout

This week's dinner @doubledouble_delhi is all abou

This week's dinner @doubledouble_delhi is all about the toasty roasty flavors. Coorg style pandi curry with almost charred spices - cumin, coriander, cinnamon, black pepper, fenugreek, cardamom, cloves, mustard, curry leaves - ground fresh with coriander, onion, garlic and ginger, and soured with kachampulli vinegar. Slightly chewy short grain rice from Kerala. And cool roasted pumpkin mash with a little zing of mustard oil.

#pandicurry #indianfood #kaddu #sitaphal #mustardoil

Simple, classic apple cake/flaugnarde. The differe

Simple, classic apple cake/flaugnarde. The different varieties of apple - from sweet and soft to tart and crisp - add variation of texture and flavour, while a whisper of rum hints at the changing seasons.

#autumnvibes #oldmonk #appleorchard #appleflaugnarde #applecake

Soup of the evening, beautiful soup. 🐢

Soup of the evening, beautiful soup. 🐢

The gastronomical me, with apologies to mfk.

The gastronomical me, with apologies to mfk.

Sunday co-cooking with @moshypit for @doubledouble

Sunday co-cooking with @moshypit for @doubledouble_delhi. Love is peeling citrus fruit for hours after the nerve endings of your fingers have been burned off from deseeding chillies.

#pomelosalad #homecooking #phanaeng #porkcurry #delhidelivery

At Delhi's most peaceful abattoir.

At Delhi's most peaceful abattoir.

Screengrab from 'PlayerUnknown's Bundeli Ground',

Screengrab from 'PlayerUnknown's Bundeli Ground', just one of dozens of PUBG battle reenactments in vernacular languages on @youtubeindia. Also find dark #pubgshortfilms made by budget-strapped wannabe filmmakers (watch 'Ma, Beta aur Woh' at your own peril), PUBG wedding shoots and more in my latest (and last) #SoundFury&4G story, which looks back at the year of bans and @khabarlahariya's reporting to ask whether PUBG & TikTok - like gobhi manchurian & chilli paneer - were ultimately more Indian than Chinese. Link in bio.

#winnwrwinnerchickendinner #winnerwinnerpaneerdinner #longform #youtubeindia #patriotism #comedy #4G

Made a million toothsome but possibly extremely de

Made a million toothsome but possibly extremely delivery-unfriendly coconut tres leches cupcakes for @doubledouble_delhi.