Food | Parenting | Family

11 Genius Cooking Hacks I Wish I Had Known Earlier in Life

Quick, easy and tasty (and dollops of parenting around food).

Karthik Rajan
Aha Moments
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6 min readJan 31, 2021

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My kids and me are blessed.

One thing that is common between my wife and my mom — both are great mothers. They have one thing fundamentally in common — they are mega efficient planners. They habitually soak their food and ferment it ahead. My grand dad who lived until he was 104 swore by fermented food.

Unfortunately, I waffle my way to the pantry when I am hungry and want something soon. Like most of us, I like to whip things up when needed. I wished I had known these 11 hacks earlier in life.

1. Insanely tasty pasta sauce, hailed as world’s best, is only 3 ingredients in one pan.

Personal story: You watch recipe videos — ingredients are often prepped. In the real world, prepping before cooking and washing after cooking take time. And there are no guarantees that the food tastes good — repeatedly. The raw truth at a sublime level is not talked about often.

Once in a while, a radical recipe comes along that it is so easy and tasty — you are dumbstruck with the lighting of your luck. Pasta…

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Karthik Rajan
Aha Moments

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