Garlicky Rice – Welcome To Garlic Land
- 08
- January
- 2015
The daily act of cooking your meal is so very special back home! If you are part of a Tamil household…you could relate to what I mean! We put all the spices in mortar and grind it, before using it up in cooking! Back home…every sacred act (such as boiling water), will call for a special spice, you know! […]
The Only Venn Diagram About Life You Will Ever Need!
- 07
- January
- 2015
Did you flunk in Math? Then, welcome to my ‘I Hate Math Club’! Yes, like many girls…I stink at mathematics and good at verbal acrobatics. But you see…coming from the family, where everyone except me are so good at it, is the sad part! I Mommy, 10th grade – school first in Math; Daddy, 12th grade - school first in Math; […]
Your Refrigerator Shows Your Personality
- 06
- January
- 2015
In culinary anthropology we study that it’s quite easy to point out one’s personality from the food they prefer to eat! Yet, there is one more dimension to it…the garbage they dump talks even more about that person. To the next level…the way they use their refrigerator can depict it even better! I am shocked […]
Soup For The Soul
- 05
- January
- 2015
Spending dreadful days during this cold season in a small town with no much activity around, can do weird things to one’s phyche. In fact, my 2015 resolution is to stop day dreaming and to wake up to the reality. Yeah, I have been going through a lot of self analysis these days. And, am convinced that I was born […]
Barbie Cake – The Quest For Life Fulfilled
- 03
- January
- 2015
Barbie Cake For My Princess Baking is not my league. Yep, certainly not! However, somewhere deep inside me…its been ingrained, that I will bake one day for my baby. And, it looks like…I was waiting for this moment to unfurl for a really looooong loooong and so loooong time…not nine months, not since I got married…but all […]
Badam Halwa – Happy New Year
- 31
- December
- 2014
I just lit up, when I saw a friend request from my best buddy (actually my soul mate)…with whom I had lost touch with. When we spoke to each other…it was so mutual and so natural…that we started being silly, pulling each other’s legs and giggling for the whole time! He quoted all about the […]
Effective Cooking – Chopped Veggies & Storage Rules
- 29
- December
- 2014
It looks like, I sometimes impress people with my amazing speed in the kitchen! On a good day…I can really whip a seven course meal in no time, even for a batch of sudden guests! Well…its not that my counter top is made of some special device…which happen to dish out like an Akshaya Paathiram or […]
Three Tier Chocolate Cake – What’s Happening In Germany?
- 27
- December
- 2014
First let me clear the air…this recipe is from my cousin Harini, who is supposed to do her thesis (Master’s) in engineering at Germany! The entire family is into this vague dibelief that she is actually cooking baking there!!?? Since, the scolding part is exclusively performed by my her Mommy (on weekly basis to her & in […]
Apple Sauce – Baby’s First Choice
- 25
- December
- 2014
Hello Hello Great Ladies, Mommies and Nannies (Daddies if any too)! I made it through. Yeah, my lil infant accepted her first meal, finally. She must have felt sorry for me and gave in. Phew! Sigh and deep breath! If you could relate to my situation…of unbelievable tantrums, yelling, turning away, crocodile tears, sticky mashed […]
A Shower Without Thunder!
- 24
- December
- 2014
For years…I have been avoiding baby showers! Its a pure awkward moment for an unwed, never-been a Mom and men to be present there. And to witness…all the hormone driven glowy-type women, to go…on & on with their stories. And, the mandatory ‘awwww’ that follows after each and every sentences. I know, I know…its not […]
