Myriad Musings

Picnic and temple visit

2012-01-23T13:02:00.002+05:30

Mom's really happy with me right now. I finally took the humongous tiffen box she gave me on a picnic and I even cooked everything that went into it! What you see here are the remnants from the picnic, I had no time to take a picture before we left. We decided to go to Thiruvalangadu and Tiruttani on Sunday ( decided on Saturday, left on Sunday actually). Since we couldn't bear to part

Choco coco cake. Awesome!

2012-01-07T20:37:00.001+05:30

There is a proverb in Kannada, "Thengu Hingu iddare, manke kooda adige maada bahudu" Iif coconut and hing are available, even a monkey can cook). 50% of this was verified today. I made a coconut-chocolate cake straight out of Chocolate and Zucchini. In my husband's words, it was as good as the carrot cake we used to have at a Cafe. The only changes I made are adding a few chocolate chips and

Happy New Year Everyone!

2012-01-05T12:16:00.000+05:30

This is the year of doing, not just resolving to do! Living greener lives: We had sorted our garbage for months, maybe even years. Our plastics and kitchen wastes were stashed separately, so that the ragpicker could get it without having to go through really gross stuff. But my new baby sitter is really lazy, she will dump all trash in the plastics only bin because it is right there in the

Diwali Sweets

2011-10-17T19:26:00.000+05:30

This diwali I have made a few resolutions; No New clothes for me - closets overflowing Few crackers - last year we said no more, but gau was disappointed so limited enjoyment better than starving Regular traditional sweets as opposed to something fancy off the web; My sweets last year were easily perishable. Definitely bajji, ukkarai on diwali day. I have not made my mom style sweets in a

A tale of two biscottis

2011-10-06T13:13:00.000+05:30

What do you give to someone who has everything? Perhaps your time, attention and effort? Biscottis fit the bill exactly. Now, I used to be the biscotti making queen in my MS days in UT Austin; I had modified a recipe found in a cook book (this was way before food blogs became so prolific online), adding lemon and orange zests, fine semolina etc... But unfortunately, I have not written down

Navarathri challenge

2011-09-28T10:35:00.000+05:30

Navarathri started yesterday. In culinary terms, it means 9 sundals (beans/channa/moong salad basically) for the 9 days of navarathri, Sweets on the first day, friday, saraswathi puja day and Vijayadasami day. Onions, Garlic are not allowed on festive days; Traditional sundals are all about a tadka of mustard, jeera, hing and freshly grated coconut on cooked, salted beans/chana/moong/lentil.

First bento inspired week

2011-09-28T09:10:00.000+05:30

My sis had twins! Delivered at 32 weeks, each baby barely 1.4 kgs now and no bigger than the baby monkey's i see around IIT but mom and babies are doing well and together since yesterday! I am sooooooo thrilled to finally have a baby girl in the family! Between her and work I have no time to write out or take pics of my bento inspired menu for the week: