 This is the restaurant way of making mashed potatoes at scale. All credits to Ryan Goodwin. The technique is colloquially referred to as "dead arm" in the restaurant circles.
Mashed Potatoes Restaurant Style – The dead-arm technique
Kerala Style Mussels Fry (Kallumakkaya Varattiyathu)
Mussels sauteed with ginger-garlic and spices. A spicy dish, and very common in Northern Kerala (Malabar). It can be served as an appetizer or as a side dish with rice. It tastes the best with coconut oil.
Mushroom masala stir fry (Indian Style)
 Mushrooms cooked and sauteed in ginger garlic, pepper, and spices. A healthy and tasty side-dish. Goes well with rice, roti, and any Indian breads.
Carrot and Dates Cake (Without butter)
Super moist and delicious Carrot Dates cake. The combo of carrot, dates and nuts make it a heaven.
Kerala Ghee Rice (Ney Choru)
Rice roasted and cooked with ghee and spices. Quick, easy and delicious Malabar style rice preparation. It goes well with spicy nonveg/veg curry.
Omelette roll stuffed with cashew cilantro paste (Egg pinwheels)
Omelet roll stuffed with the cashew, coriander and coconut paste. An easy snack that you can whip up and serve guest quickly.
Beef Kheema
Easy and cheap sautéed ground beef side dish for roti, naan and pita bread.
Mango Milk Shake/Smoothie (Without Yogurt)
 Mangoes taste so good and they are also healthy. A quite simple and delicious mango shake recipe using mango pulp which you can easily whip up at home.
Kerala Egg Roast (Nadan mutta roast)
Boiled eggs cooked in spicy onion tomato masala gravy. One of the easy and tasty side dish that you can prepare very quickly. Mostly served for breakfast with Appam(Rice and Coconut pancake) or Noolappam or Puttu. Also tastes great with roti or any Indian bread.
Where to buy spices if you are in the United States
Short guide to the spices and condiments available at the Indian/Pakistani stores in the US. How cheap these are compared to safeway, target etc.
Kerala Beef Cutlet / Croquette
Beef cooked with spices, dipped in an egg mix and then in breadcrumbs and fried. An appetizer which is never missed out at parties especially in a Kerala Christian home.
Kerala Style Mutton Stew
Mutton simmered in coconut milk with onion, ginger- garlic and spices. Appam with Mutton Stew is one of my favorite breakfast. Great combination with Idiyappam, puttu and bread also.
Kerala Style Appam (Rice and coconut pancake)
Easy, soft and fluffy Appam made with fermented rice and coconut batter. It's the best served with chicken/mutton/vegetable stew or fish molly.
Kerala Style Fish Fry ( Meen varuthathu)
Fish steaks marinated with spices and then shallow fried. It's an easy and a great appetizer and also goes well with rice.
Indo Chinese Chicken Fried Rice
Chicken and vegetables cooked in a sauce combo and then mixed with rice. An easy Indo Chinese style fried rice recipe to make at home.