Snapshots

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

From the grimy lens of the mobile phone.

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Interviewed (sort of) Perumal Murugan and wrote about his first non-fiction book translated to English, for @india.today. A set of stories about his mother, 'Amma' paints a complex picture of growing up in rural Kongunadu and augurs good things for the in-progress translations of his memoirs. Link in bio.

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Happy to spend more time in the kitchen when the weather is cool and the oven is hot, and there's an abundance of good things available in the market. Here's roasted feta with grapes and olives (@eatvoraciously); a baked pumpkin with smoked pork, shrimp and coconut milk stew; an apple fennel celery walnut salad; and spiked strawberry frozen yogurt.

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Tis the season of impulse baking 🎶 Chocolate biscotti from a @davidlebovitz recipe adapted to ingredients on hand. (Though the discovery of @pigmentoindia_ right behind my house makes the impulse just a slightly more dangerous one.)

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Strawberry and rosemary and a few splashes of things more sinful.

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Simplest salad - thinly sliced radishes, squeeze of lemon, a generous sprinkle of salt. Sour, sharp... and cheaper than onions.

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Auto party #decaloftheday

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A view of Khan Market.

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A very hasseled persimmon. Half savoury, half sweet, stuffed up with homemade ricotta and baked until gooey inside and crispy-skinned.
#hasselbackpersimmon

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Life, uh... finds a way.

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Rocket season, or 50 ways to leaf your lover.

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After approx 1,039 hours of cleaning and chopping veg, ready to hibernate for a week with this homely-hearty stew as my only sustenance.

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Checked that off my bucket list.

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And then there were four... (and almost none, because someone neglected to tell me the oven is Fahrenheit, not Celsius 🙈 )
#henparty

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A meat for all regions

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A fruit that used to be called Japani phal, now grown in India and called ramphal (presumably for its colour?) 🤔

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After a long time, #decaloftheday, thanks to @varunrana16's eagle eye.

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Since staying in bed isn't an option, the breakfast equivalent of a long cuddle: persimmon porridge with a generous grating of fresh turmeric and a splash of coconut milk.

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Papa ghar kab aayenge?

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Fridge cleaning frittata.

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Working on a winter tan. Stuffed with thyme and small onions, in the company of whole carrots, shakarkandi and radishes.