The Smart Crow
The Thirsty Crow – On a hot day, a thirsty crow flew all over the fields looking for water. He couldn’t find any water but saw a water jug near the village. The crow sat on the rim of the jug and looked inside – he could see […]
Going Organic …
Krishnan’s favourite fruit is grapes. Thats the only fruit he will eat, everything else has to be juiced. When we were in the UK and then Germany for our vacation last year, he managed to eat some grapes because there was no pesticide sprayed on them ! But […]
Cook Anywhere.. Thank You OPOS, Induction Stove and AirBnB
This post is specially dedicated to my childhood friend Adeeti… She wanted to know how we manage to travel with our kitchen. This post is also a way of thanking three innovators who made cooking while travelling so easy. With us being vegetarians, these innovations have made it […]
New Item #1 – Daulat Ki Chaat
One of the things that I have on my list of 50 things to do in this year to celebrate turning 50 is eat five new items. Only when I wrote that down did I realise that we often eat the “same” thing over and over again. When […]
The OPOS life – Easy, Tasty and so much variety
I only cook the OPOS (One Pot One Shot) way everyday. I am constantly thinking of the layers and its almost an auto reflex to think of any recipe in terms of OPOS. Ever since I was introduced to this way of cooking, the variety of food at […]
Parrot or Parakeet ? :)
Since August this year, we have had a family of 5 green parrots (or parakeets) making their way to our neighbour’s balcony. They screech across from the tower opposite ours to the tower that’s adjacent and then more recently two of them have started to sit on the […]
Germany Day 13 – “Beamer” day !
Thurs Sept 13, 2018 – Munich Keshav had planned the trip to the BMW museum and showroom for this day. Later in the day, Anu was to join us for lunch at Marienplatz and we were all planning to go shopping after that. So after breakfast, we started […]
Scotland Day 8 – A day of Prep
Friday Aug 31, 2018 – Edinburgh As we were leaving for Hamburg the next day, we decided to take this day off from sightseeing in order to prepare for the Germany leg of the trip. Sriman, Kiran and the kids all went to their respective offices and schools […]
Same Base, Two different items
When RK spoke of themes in cuisines around the world on the OPOS FB page, it was just knowledge but it hadn’t become an experience yet. The themes idea just got internalised last week. In the past week, I made OPOS VadaKari and OPOS Kothu Paratha. Both are […]
OPOS Thai Green Curry – updated
Krishnan and I love Thai food – especially because its fresh and the curries are spicy. For many years we wrongly believed that the Vegetarian green/red/yellow curry was indeed vegetarian but a few years back we realised that many of the restaurants in India use Shrimp paste anyway […]
