Showing posts with label Indian food. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Indian food. Show all posts

Thursday, 22 October 2015

Ragan Wallake – Beauty with Mind


Ragan Wallake is a former actress and model turned chef and photographer. Initially she started her career with modeling but then decided to pursue a career in cooking and photography. Ragan Wallake’s upbringing took place at Minnesota. She has a passion for cooking. She started cooking at a very early age from her home. She always loved to try new things and mixing different ingredients to make new varieties of food. In 2014 she created her blog and provided the best and unique recipes of different types. The blog explain the beauty of food and also provides with the healthy recipes. 

Ragan and Her Love for Cooking

Ragan Wallake retired from the industry of modeling at the age of 35. She suddenly felt of starting with second career but wondered what could be her second career. After some days she decided to follow her passion for cooking and photography. She spent around 1 year interacting with the famous cooks and understanding the concepts. She finds some visual beauty in the food and also loves to capture the beautifully decorated foods. Cooking for her is the way of expressing many different feelings. All the recipes developed by her are purely original.

Ragan and Her Passion for Photography

She developed her website which made her find the right path of becoming a food and lifestyle photographer, a cook and also a writer. The photography done by Ragan Wallake is very unique. She loves to capture the natural moments and beauty of people and playing with the one they love. She captured photos and performed photo shoots of many actors and writers in such a way that it describes their real life and personality very clearly. 

Behind the Camera

Ragan Wallake initially started her career being in front of cameras as a model. But then she discovered her craze for cooking and also for photography. Now she is able to live behind the cameras with a pen in her hand. She has different aims now and those aims help her to keep life exciting. At present she lives with her husband in West Hollywood. She loves to communicate with people and always feels inspired with what she does. She always waits for the opportunity to communicate which can help to generate some new and different recipes.

Achievements of Ragan

She was lucky to get invitation from “Beautiful Roots” narrating successful women in entertainment industry. She serves as the personal photo journalist for Robin McGraw, Dr. Phil and other family members. She is the member of TNH and also works as VP of Charity for organization.

A New Stream in Cooking

Ragan’s inspiration for Indian food

Ragan’s inspiration for Indian food
Ragan Wallake developed her passion for cooking Indian food through research and her taste buds. The inspiration for cooking Indian food was received form The New Indian Slow Cooker book that was written by Neela Paniz. She worked on her Indian recipe, went to the Indian grocer and started cooking using the Indian cooker. She went to almost every grocery store to study about the spices of Indian food and also interacted with many people. She found recipes, which made Indian food without using too many ingredients and spices. Her experience in developing Indian recipes was great as it was a totally different way of cooking for her. Her inspiration helped her a lot. She learned about Indian food and spices by visiting the various grocers.


Ragan Wallake and Neela Paniz
Ragan first heard about Neela from her friend and Neela’s daughter-in-law. She understood the advantages of having a chef and author as her friend’s mother-in-law. Ragan was very inspired from her. Ragan tried to copy the recipes of Neela. But god wanted something else. She was not able to copy the recipes. Instead she developed her own Indian recipes. When Ragan was about to meet Neela she was prepared with knowledge about Indian food and spices. She also developed some of the Indian recipes. When Ragan went to meet Neela she was greeted very well. Neela inspired Ragan when she said that she never planned her food. She used to go daily to market as she did not wanted to restrict the kitchen with what was available. Ragan was quite impressed with these thoughts of Neela. She also saw that Neela was very comfortable with the spices. She just used her hand and poured them approximately. Ragan was inspired and had a great chance to learn from Neela that led her to develop her own way of cooking Indian food.
Ragan’s cooking in summer
Usually in summers the taste of food changes. But Ragan makes it work. She can develop wonderful recipes in any temperature. In summer it is difficult to eat the spicy foods and so she developed a new taste for cooking specially in summer. Ragan is full of ideas in terms of cooking. She just needs a kitchen to develop great items, some quality ingredients and her deep passion and her love of creating wonderful dishes.