Protein and calories, on every video

I grew up on my parents’ cooking and on every cooking show I could find, and I made none of it myself. Then I got to college broke. Broke enough that going out with friends meant sitting at the table and ordering nothing, then going home to cook for one.

I got good at it because I had to. Cheap ingredients, short cook times, and enough protein to actually hold me until the next meal. In December 2019 I started posting what I was eating on TikTok. The videos found an audience fast, and the audience turned out to want the same thing I did: a real dinner, on a weeknight, with the numbers stated up front.

Six years later the recipes and the videography are the job. The Indian food I grew up on sits on the same feed as the rice bowls, and both of them get the same treatment.