My relatives started a new group on facebook to share family recipes. I thought I would start writing them down on my blog so they are searchable. The first recipe is a Andhra dish called Mukkala Pulusu. Some other names it is known as are ‘Theepi Pulusu’, ‘Dappalam’ and ‘Meetha …

I am super excited to finally get this end to end workflow to work. I am writing this post from Github, which in turn causes travis-ci to do a pelican build and finally push the build to shireenrao.github.io and also pushes the build to my personal blog.

I …

This dish is a very popular dish from North India. I have had this at restaurants and Dhaba’s in and around New Delhi. So how is this different than all the different types of mutton I have made in the past. Well.. I did some research and found this …

I am really enjoying working with the Python Flask Web Framework. I won a O’Reilly book last year on Flask Web Development by Miguel Grinberg and am finally getting around to reading it and trying out what the book teaches. So far it’s been excellent!

From the start …

I was pulling my hair to get my vim setup with YouCompleteMe on my macbook after I upgraded to Yosemite. On Mavericks it was pretty straight forward. The following used to work -

# install xcode and command line tools  
$ xcode-select --install  
# install homebrew  
$ ruby -e "$(curl -fsSL https://raw.githubusercontent.com …