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Hello from Sunny California!
Hello from Sunny California!
I am back and I am excited to get up to speed as soon as possible. Between the good-bye and hello, we have been through some very exciting changes! First of all, we moved a few states to the west and landed in California. To top that, we did it in style: a six-day roadtrip covering ten beautiful American states: Alabama> Tennessee> Arkansas> Oklahoma> Texas> New Mexico> Arizona> Nevada>…
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It is a strange feeling, saying good bye and not really going anywhere, which is why I haven’t done the inevitable to this blog. I think I have been sub consciously holding on, thinking that I would be returning to the bright yet confusing world of food blogging and photography. However, I have tried for eight months and I have zero inclination to go through this process again. When I started…
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Thai Basil Eggplant
Holidays are nearly on top of us and I have no idea how this whole year zipped by. Although I am busy lovin’ winter, what with the sudden, global warming-induced 80° F weather and all that, I cannot help but miss the glorious summer we had. The summer filled with fresh produce, an abundant supply of sweet basil and trips to the farmer’s market that left me with a dilemma of what to buy and what…
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Pumpkin Pie Spice and Pumpkin Spice Latte
Pumpkin Pie Spice and Pumpkin Spice Latte
If you have been following the fan pageon Facebook, you would be very aware of the fact that I am obsessed with pumpkin at the moment. It is as much a fall thing as it is my personal palate thing. Although I am pretty late getting into this pumpkin everything game, I can tell you that I am fully committed. In fact, I took a pledge to get out there and try everything there is to try with pumpkin!…
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India Trip 2014- A Round-up of Food and Fun
India Trip 2014- A Round-up of Food and Fun
Things have changed around here! WordPress has a brand new dashboard, the colors have changed and I cannot recognize one freakin’ thing. This is bad, you guys- well, bad and good actually. We got back from India a month ago and I hit the ground running the minute we reached home. First, baby A fell sick with a tummy bug. She hit poopy land (erm, sorry for the graphic details. I have to get it off…
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How to Cake Smash Like a Pro
The inevitable happened. My Junebug turned a year old last Sunday. Although I had been preparing for her birthday for four long months, the enormity of it hit me only while I was getting her ready for the cake smash photoshoot. A whole year zipped past me as I was learning new things about my baby and trying to be a satisfactory mother. Although I have guilt tripped several times over the year, I…
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Spinach and Corn Mac and Cheese
Spinach and Corn Mac and Cheese
Creamy, jam packed with flavor and wonderfully versatile, this loose interpretation on mac and cheese has been on my mind for a really long time. Kishore loves his mac and cheese and he would eat only one version- Ina Garten’s. Although I made it exactly as she does a couple of times, I quickly realized that it was not an everyday mac and cheese. For one, it is full of cheese (always looks good…
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Cranberry- Walnut Orzo with Bulgur Wheat
Cranberry- Walnut Orzo with Bulgur Wheat
Inspired by a random Rachel Ray recipe and an overwhelming amount of Craisins lying around the house, I made this quick, one-pot meal last evening. It was intended for my dinner and lunch (I cook only in the evenings) since I made regular food for my husband and Aarabhi. I ended up eating it for dinner, late-night snack, breakfast and lunch. It made so much and I did not regret it even a bit…
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Photography Styling Challenge- Personal
Photography Styling Challenge-Â Personal
This is it. The last installment of this edition of the Photography Styling Challenge and it got a-personal! I remember the first challenge I was a part of. The concept was Morning and I was this super-sad photographer who was oblivious to the wonders my DSLR was capable of. All that changed on that Sunday in October as I messed around with my camera, trying to get decent pictures of the…
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Jalapeño Poppers Pizza with Sweet Corn and Garlic Chips
Jalapeño Poppers Pizza with Sweet Corn and Garlic Chips
Sometimes, you want to make a dish for dinner and then you realize that you have planned something else that you have been waiting to make for the day. For me, it happened on the day I found surprisingly firm jalapeño peppers at the market a week ago. Thinking I would make jalapeño poppers that evening, I bought exactly six (I had to exercise sound restraint since I am known to over-indulge while…
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Toasted Falafel in Pita Pockets with Tzatziki
Toasted Falafel in Pita Pockets with Tzatziki
It is such an amazing feeling, to face the end of finals and look forward to my first holiday season (bar an academic paper up for submission) in two long years. After doing some mental math, I realized that I have been working without respite for the past two years. Some may argue that I took a break last summer also but then, I would beg to differ. Carrying a live person in the stomach for nine…
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Chickpeas and Roasted Garlic Spaghetti
Chickpeas and Roasted Garlic Spaghetti
Overwhelming would be an understatement for the month that is passing by. I have a few days more to go and then I could probably start working towards normalcy. Yep, final exams week is upon me and I am still clueless about how I am going to go about one of the toughest exams I am scheduled to write.
But amidst all this chaos, I have managed to cook some good (read decent) food and photograph…
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Cupcakes on a Dirt-cheap DIY Stand
Cupcakes on a Dirt-cheap DIYÂ Stand
I made this beautiful and elegant cupcake stand on one of those random boring afternoons when Aarabhi was down for a nap (which went on for two hours, rendering me delirious with joy) and the husband was lazing around. I saw this interesting videoon YouTube a few days earlier and bought the supplies (which cost me exactly $3, exc taxes). I was waiting for half an hour of me time so that I could…
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Appa's Sweet Potato Chips
Appa’s Sweet Potato Chips
One of the things I miss the most about Appa is his crispy, salty-sweet sweet potato chips. Amongst other things, of course. There have been countless Sundays (his only off day) we used to find him standing over a pot of hot oil and wielding a mandoline in one hand and a chunk of sweet potato, also called VaLLikizhangu in Tamiil, in the process of making the crispiest chips in the world! It used…
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Photography Styling Challenge- Light
Photography Styling Challenge-Â Light
What a disastrous month this has been! Apart from studying, driving baby A to daycare and cooking (badly at that) for basic survival, I have been up to absolutely nothing! Throw in a couple of weeks of being totally sick (yes, all of us!) and I was ready to call it quits and run back crying to Amma. Thankfully, that has passed but unfortunately, I had to give up that one thing which has been…
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Roti- How to Make Soft Roti in an Electric Cooktop- Step By Step Post
Roti- How to Make Soft Roti in an Electric Cooktop- Step By Step Post
I feel rather ashamed to admit this. I used to suck at making Chapatis/Rotis. I have heard from people whose staple diet consists of Roti that every demure housewife is judged by the shape and texture of the Rotis she rolls. I am not demure.  Nor was I a perfect Roti maker. The latter saddend me, of course. So I decided to push things further and tried everything I could think of- every tip food…
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Bhindi Sambhariya
If there is one cuisine (apart from an eclectic mix of many other) I had to eat all my life, I would probably choose Gujarati. Why not? Their spices are mild, every dish is invariably vegetarian, made with fresh vegetables at that, and most of the dishes have a slight sweetness to them. So yes, why not? I first tasted Gujju food in this wonderful little restaurant in Madras called Mansukh’s…
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