Live To Eat

Curried Pork Belly Sandwich with Pickled Veggies

2010-03-20T01:22:04Z

If I had any kind of poetic talent, I’d write a hymn about pork belly. It is the most wonderful food in the world. Some of the fat layers melt away once cooked, rendering the most tender piece of meat with a buttery layer of fat. I have no words to describe the texture and the taste other than Heavenly! I love this cut of meat in all forms. Bacon is born from pork belly, need I say more? But why does everything that tastes so damn good always bad for ...

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Mutton Chukka (Tamil Style Mutton Dry Fry)

2010-03-09T08:46:26Z

I haven’t posted any Tamil recipes in a while, not because Siv is not cooking anymore, but because he has a tendency to stick with a few tried and tested recipes whenever he does. I think I have posted all the dishes that he regularly makes. Today when he said he wanted to cook goat, I asked him to cook something new aka a bloggable dish, as I’ve been having a creative block lately. So he immediately made a call to his mom, asking for ideas and she gave him ...

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Spring Hill, West Seattle

2010-03-15T01:48:42Z

We haven’t really explored the West Seattle restaurant scene much, I am not sure why though. It is not that long a drive from Belltown, but somehow we never think about this neighborhood while trying to pick a place for dinner. Spring Hill has been on my radar for a while, but I keep forgetting about it when it comes to decision time. But last month on my birthday Siv made reservations there after reading some great reviews about the place and wow, I am really glad he did. The first ...

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Restaurant Style Chicken Curry – Step by Step Recipe

2010-03-01T18:54:21Z

I’ve been trying to figure out ways of getting out of this blogging rut I am stuck in. Someone suggested creating cooking videos, but boy, that sounds like way too much work. But I can see how the videos can be helpful, especially for those who are totally unfamiliar with a particular cuisine or are novice cooks altogether. It can be pretty nerve racking to imagine how a few seemingly nondescript list of ingredients turn into something so delicious looking (if I say so myself) like this bowl of chicken ...

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Spicy Baby Eggplants

2010-03-06T19:05:02Z

A pure vegetarian recipe is long due in this space. We have been trying to incorporate more vegetables into our diet lately. While I enjoy salads and simply sautéed veggies tremendously as a side for meat or seafood, I really need something spicy to go with a rice based meal. Eggplant is one of those vegetables that can take spices really well. I grew up hating this vegetable, but these days I am okay with it as long as it is not cooked to death. I made this one just ...

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Mutton Chops in a Black Pepper Sauce

2010-02-17T07:43:47Z

It’s late and I am too tired to write a blog post, but I just had these mutton chops for dinner for the second night in a row and had to write down the recipe before I forgot. It was that good!! Yes, I know I am tooting my own horn, but someone’s got to and nobody else seems to want the job. I used goat chops (you can buy goat meat in Halal meat stores in the United States), but if you can’t find goat, use lamb, just reduce ...

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Grilled Scampi with Lemon-Garlic-Shallot-Oregano Butter

2010-02-15T07:17:54Z

Hope everyone had a great Valentine’s day. Ours was pretty low key on the day itself, though we had a grand celebration with friends the night before. In the past we used to make reservations at some nice restaurants and go out for dinner on v-day, but it has almost always been a total disaster. Food is normally overpriced, quality is sub par and the service is guaranteed to be spotty. I think it is officially the worse night to go out for dinner, even worse than New Year’s eve. ...

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Restaurant Review – Per Se, New York

2010-02-08T08:37:35Z

Last weekend we flew to New York City for a foodie getaway, a birthday gift from Siv. His idea was to take me on an Iron Chef restaurant tour, but as soon as I heard that we were going to New York, I had to pick out the places. Yeah, I am kind of a control freak when it comes to food. So instead of the iron chef tour, we went through the 2010 Michelin list and picked the places from there. Even though we didn’t really plan it like ...

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Caramelized Catfish

2010-01-28T09:10:08Z

I’ve been blogging for 3+ years now and I am still not completely satisfied with the quality of my pictures. But given where I started from, I sure have come a long way! You will know what I mean if you’ve seen some of my initial posts. Most of the pictures were shot directly from the pan on the stove, using the camera flash as the light source. I have been meaning to update those old posts with new pictures for a while now, but been too lazy to do ...

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Baked Halibut Steaks with Lemon- Garlic – Cherry Tomato -Herbed Butter Sauce

2010-01-22T05:16:31Z

I am struggling to keep my new year resolution to try and be a more “regular blogger”; without much success. It is really hard to maintain one hobby, then I had to go and take another one on. A bunch of us are doing a project called Project 365 from the beginning of this year. The idea is to take and post a picture every day for the whole year, to journal our lives one picture at a time. I didn’t think I’d last this long, but it has become ...

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