30 October
2016
29 October
2016
From the bartender’s corner – Rangpur Chill
Last week, when I was in Portland, I went back to East India Co and made friends with Cain at the bar there. After letting him know that I loved the Tamarind Ginger Tantra – which was his favorite drink, I asked for his second favorite. Went with the Rangpur Chill.
This is Rangpur Chill with a slight variation. It has Tanqueray Rangpur gin, muddled Indian chillies, cucumber and sweet and sour. Additionally, I threw in a little of UV’s Sriracha Vodka to have a heightened smell of spice without making the drink too spicy. Rangpur is an area in Bangladesh which is famous for its limes. (actually tastes like limes but more orange-y in color). The gin is infused with it.
29 October
2016
Pregnancy and Alcohol do not mix…
29 October
2016
Quick 5 mile run in a beautiful fall morning
27 October
2016
Somebody has a sense of humor!!
This is the first thing to hit us as two of my colleagues and myself walked into a winery half an hour away from Portland after all our meetings yesterday. I startled my friends – Anand and Mark – and all the people around with my loud laughter.
That is an amazingly great pun with a perfect sense of location!! And I am such a sucker for puns!!
23 October
2016
Half marathon!
Two weeks back, after posting 10K everyday for 7 days, my quads, IT bands and the right knee was a mess. To give them some rest, I stayed off the running trail for a whole week. Went back to the trail this afternoon hoping to put in a short run to test out how the recovery has been. And while those unsuspecting muscles and joints were not watching, quietly put in a half marathon in 2 hours and 10 minutes. I am pretty sure I am going to pay for this tonight 🙂
22 October
2016
From the bartender’s corner – Tamarind Ginger Tantra
Inspired by the drink made in East India Co bar in Portland that I wrote of this week. As reported before, this has tamarind (I used paste), ginger, date, vodka and peach schnapps. Note that the bar had used ginger infused vodka. I used fresh ginger to get a better flavor.
The taste came out pretty good.
22 October
2016
Made for my Gujrati friends
22 October
2016
Side effects of internet getting hacked down?
21 October
2016
Royters News: Now what do we do?
A massive DDOS attack (from of a hacking attack) has brought down a lot of social media as well streaming sites like Netflix, Spotify in the US. On a Friday evening! No less!!
Now people have been left with no choice but to (gasp!) talk to each other. Unfortunately, most of their sentences so far have been constructed with the words – “Like”, “Retweet”, “Share” and “Pound Sign” :-)(Apparently some did not get the memo that it is called HashTag 🙂 )
https://www.cnet.com/news/internet-outage-dyn-ddos-attack-twitter-spotify/