Bonjour! Wish you all a glorious 2017 It’s been a long hiatus. I have missed all of you, and I have missed blogging. Where have you been? You ask. I have been away doing something wonderful, kind of answering…
I started cooking quail eggs a few years ago because for some reason those were the only eggs Junior would eat. He ‘hated’ eggs, but quail eggs, it seems, did not fall into that category. I didn’t mind, because…
It was gone. In space of ten minutes. I cooked the pudding, with love, and a lot of sugar. It was sunny and warm, and I jumped at the opportunity to click some pictures that would not look like they…
Yesterday, I found my older one listening to a really screechy, bad parody of Psy’s song ‘Gangnam style. The grating song it seems is an attempt to teach the people listening to this dreadful rendition the basics of Spanish…
Did I tell you guys that I was in the middle of arranging for a community event to celebrate Diwali? It was a lot of people, lots of food and lots of dancing. It also had lots of kids dancing…
Easy, delicious, scrumptious and quick, not to mention a big hit with my kids. This amazing sounding omelet given by Nami on her blog Just One Cook Book sprinkles Japanese flavors into an otherwise pedestrian dish, taking it to a different…
Winter has, grudgingly, given way to spring. There are some delightful things going on in my back yard. A mourning dove laid two tiny little eggs in a nest that it built on a hanging flower tub about a couple…
Last year, when I started blogging, I received an invitation to participate in a group challenge called ‘Improv_Challenge’ hosted by Frugal Antics of a Harried Homemaker. At first, I was thrilled. And then, the clueless bloggy pumpkin that I was,…
“Can I have a BELT ?” rasped a very big man with a voice that sounded like it was coming out of a hollow tube. “You mean a BLT, sir?’, asked the cashier. “No, I meant a BELT. Roger…
We went for a day trip to a place called Varanasi, in India. This was ages ago, when I was still a pony tailed middle-schooler and not taken seriously by anyone – kids or adults. Varanasi is beautiful. One…
As an adult, some of us are fortunate enough to be able to buy whatever we need – the necessities and some luxuries – for a happy existence, and I have truly been blessed in that regard. Still,…
Every summer during school holidays, we used to visit my maternal grandparents. They ran a large household, full of children and animals. Every afternoon, without fail, my Dida (grandma) could be found supervising massive cauldrons of whey, hay, starch and…
Every word that you are going to read below is true, nothing added, nothing subtracted. When Ma called me on Monday afternoon US time (Monday night in India), she was literally shaking. She had discovered oil on the floor, right near the…
AG came back from school happy. My third grader had noticed that he had not received one of the HW assignment sheets at the end of the day, so he went and asked his teacher to give him one. The…
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