Idiyappam / இடியப்பம்
You're craving idiyappam and I'm in Arkansas for work. So I made this video for you. Grab the steamer. It's next to the food mixer I make pizza with. All the way in the back left on the first shelf. Remove the 2 steam levels from the steamer. Put the
Northern Eelam Goat Curry
Goat curry is my favorite meat curry my family makes. It was the first thing I learned who to make after leaving Maryland. I wrote this essay, "Kill Your Culture", which was inspired by this recipe. Setup I use a wok for cooking this. I pre-season the goat before it
Mango Lassi
Sometimes it's too hot and you want something sweet. The green cardomum changes the aroma game. The stevia makes it sweeter than an "equivalent" amount of sugar. This one is dialed in. Sometimes I swap 14g of mango for strawberry, blueberry, raspberry, or peach. This will influence the aroma and
Fancy Lunchables
I eat these during the work day generally. It doesn't need to be heated up. Perfect to pack if you're going somewhere. Sometimes I don't have the energy to cook. Sometimes it's too hot to cook. Sometimes I want to eat straight out the fridge. Here are my favorite combinations
Üraippu Shrimp
Years ago, I ordered these fancy ass sauces from @kitchenguerilla on Instagram. I wanted to pair uraippu sauce with shrimp. Since I didn’t see that pairing on his recipe highlights, I DMed him about it. To my surprise, he responded! After making this 10+ times, I'm ready to share
Stuffed Crust Pizza
In 2021, the last Pizza Hut in Manhattan shut its doors. It was in Times Square. New York's armpit. My friend Wei and I used to meet there to enjoy a stuffed crust. With jalapenos and pepperoni. Half and Half. Wei and I met in 1999, when I moved to
Where To Start Learning Tamil
3 years ago, I couldn’t speak a full sentence in Tamil. Today, I can hold 45 minute conversations with native speakers. If I hadn’t found The Tamil Channel (Sabtha) on Youtube, my mother tongue would have died with me. A question I often get is “Janahan, where do
Detroit: Easiest Pizza To Make
Have you wanted to make pizza but worry it's too much work? For 15 years, I’ve been making pizza from scratch. For 13.5 years, those pizzas were mediocre. In the last 1.5 years, I purchased all five of the pizza guides from Notorious PIE. Those guides transformed
Kill Your Culture
Or live it. There is no in-between. I didn’t realize this until I left Maryland, where I grew up, in 2012. I missed my parent’s goat curry. The symphony of spices, aromatics, and tender meat that falls to pieces between my teeth. I couldn’t buy it. There
Lessons I Learned From Going Broke
We always hear about founders risking it all to go after their dreams. The Zuckerbergs of the world. The Bezos’s. These stories dominate the discourse. We never hear about the Janahan’s of the world - risking it all. And losing it all. In June 2015, I quit my
