Srini's Point of View

My thoughts on technology, food and other fancies…

How to install npm packages on osx without sudo

One of the best features of python is how you can have project specific python environments using virtualenv. That way you are not putting any python packages in the global area. I knew I wanted to do something similar for managing and installing npm packages. Basically I did not want …

Pindi Chole

This is my aunt Leela Mangu’s special pindi chole recipe.

Boil 2 cups Chana with 2 tsp ground tea leaves, 2-3 Laung, 2 tsp amla pdr, salt.

Fry in oil 1 inch ginger, some garlic till brown, add 2 small tomatoes chopped to small pieces. Add Haldi, little jeera …

sambar

This is a recipe I got from my mother-in-law. The cool part about this recipe is that it is made without using any sambar powder.

Ingredients

  1. Imli - nimbu size
  2. Vegetables -any of the veggies drumstick, bindi, shimla mirch, red pumpkin, white peta, onion
  3. coconut - Half coconut- grated
  4. Masala - chana dal …

Bellam Menthikai

This is my aunt Suguna Rao’s recipe. This is a quick way of making this recipe. This does not involve drying the mango in the sun.

Ingredients

  1. One raw green mango (remove skin and cut into chips) - 2 cups
  2. Gud - 1/2 cup
  3. Salt - 2 tsp
  4. Mirchi Powder - 1 …

Coconut Chutney

Coconut chutney goes great with Idli’s, Dosa’s and vadda’s. One recent thread on my family’s recipes group on facebook had a couple of variations on this traditional chutney. I will try to post all the different styles on making this dish.

M.S. Leela Method

Ingredients …