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🏡 == House Keeping Occasionally, I will be making house-keeping announcements in the form of short blog posts. Such posts hopefully inform you — the audience — on how “CFH During WFH” is being managed. Such posts may introduce new writers and editors, or talk about new forms of content, or new social media presence for this blog beyond Medium.com.…

“use steam to cook the beans instead of frying them straight up. […] the resulting dish is more juicy and the steam retains the texture of the vegetable better, instead of turning it into a semi-burnt mush” I have been trying to master a green beans stir fry for ages, with limited success. The cook…

I can embed Observable Notebook in my Notion Notes! So I have been trying to learn about Observable🤩 this holiday break ❄️. And in doing so I built this analysis around England’s abysmal track record in Test Cricket in 2021: https://observablehq.com/@c0f6a5e2dc48f148/englands-fall-of-wickets-in-2021-test-cricket. The analysis itself is not important at all. But, when fooling around with that, I…

Upma: All done and ready in under 15 mins 🇮🇳 Indian food is a mix of different cuisines. That’s right: calling ‘Indian food’ a cuisine is like calling 🌍Africa a country. Cuisines in India are rich with different dishes for every time of the day, from different corners of the country. I sometimes like to think…

Specifically test batting🏏, for now anyway Original Tweet: https://twitter.com/TheBarmyArmy/status/1475630138821943304 Inconsequential — a word that best summarizes England’s test cricket batting. And that is becoming a real problem for the English International Test Cricket team. To be fair, it is clearly consequential for the other side: in the sense that they win. How does the nation that birthed cricket,…

^ Broccoli and Cauliflower Broccoli and cauliflower are probably the most hated vegetables in my household. And by my household, I mean my wife. But in an effort to grow up and eat our vegetables more often — you know, so that our aging bodies do not collapse in our 50’s — I devised an easy-to-make, appetizing dish out…

… or how social media is about information broadcasting For far too long social media has positioned itself as a tool to keep family and friends connected. I am not sure if that is true anymore. Frankly, I am not sure if that was ever true. (if you think that i am wrong, stop now…

Photo by wenping wang on Unsplash One late afternoon, in the middle of a work week, I found myself scratching my head: “What can i quickly whip up for lunch?” The biggest downside of working from home is that you have to make your own lunch. The chore of just thinking about the lunch menu can…

Photo by Aditya Rathod on Unsplash Aug 17, 2021 Indians love cricket. I love cricket. Cricket runs deep in India. Cue the categorization of cricket as an Indian religion. Win or lose, Indians will unite when their side is playing a game on and around the cricket pitch. It binds us. It moves us. It holds us…

This one is personal, and unkind. First grade was hard for me. I actually remember the struggle. Back then I did not understand why it was hard, but I remember knowing that it was. I think it also taught me what ‘hard’ is. Dad served in the Army, and we used to move around a…