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INJI
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I cook because I like to eat, feed my wife and friends. In normal life I am a photo editor and photographer living in Washington DC. I have no formal culinary training, but I guess food does run deep in my soul. Much of my extended family in Kerala, India have run food businesses and I learned to cook from them, and my mother.
INJI – That is the word for ginger in Malayalam, my mother tongue. Ginger is my favorite ingredient to cook with. The rhizome is one of the most versatile spice, and it can be used for flavoring savory dishes, as a condiment, in drinks, in deserts and even as the main ingredient.
This blog is a record of what I cook, and my experimentation with food. Though I still not comfortable with the terminology “fusion cuisine”, I am experimenting and learning how to make Indian dishes using traditional North American ingredients.
- Added on: Oct 28th, 2009
- Country: United States
- Language: English
- Author: Sebastian John
- Listed in: Food & Drink World Cuisine
- Tags: cooking indian spices kerala curry savory
Recent Posts
Reverse-Braised Chicken Gizzards
I have a liking for offal meat – gizzards, tripe, trotters, brains, kidney. Though I don’t buy them often for home cooking (my wife has biased tastes towards offal meat), I never miss a chance to eat if I am offered, or if it is available...
White Potato Curry
This week has been extremely busy, and bittersweet in many ways. We bought our first home this Wednesday, and in a short while I will have my first kitchen!! (I have been constantly on the move since I finished my undergrad in the early 90’s.)....
Mango Farina Bread
We have been going through our pantry to empty it out, and have been finding packets of dried beans, lentils, and cans of this and that. Among them was a can of mango pulp made from Kesar mangoes we had bought this summer at one of the Indian grocery...
Ginger Tamarind Paneer
I hardly cooked this week. Work and catching up with friends saw us eating out most of the last days. So I decided to cook something today, and clean out the refrigerator. We had bought some paneer a week or so back, and it had been languishing in th...
Puttu and Kadala Curry
I was going through the pantry this afternoon and I found the puttu maker that I had bought three years back when moving to the U.S. I had completely forgotten about it. The puttu maker had traveled from India to California, then to Washington DC, an...
Coconut Drumstick Curry
Last week we went to try out IndAroma – a Indo-French cafe in Alexandria, VA. It turned out to be a nice cozy place with an eclectic mix of food – appetizers, entrees (biriyani, curries etc), breads, cookies, cakes and pastries. But what ...
