This blog is our space to write about our thoughts, views and notes about our travels. Osho owned 90 Rolls Royces while being a Sanyasi …. The so-felt contradiction is very fascinating and hence the name !
A couple of weeks back we had ordered Watermelons from Sanesa. They sent us one green watermelon and one yellow watermelon. I was a bit apprehensive about eating it as we have never seen a yellow watermelon. Then I checked with Varun at Sanesa and he said, these watermelons were from their farm and totally … Read more
Did you guess what this is ? Freshly made pineapple juice ! When you use a slow juicer, pineapple fizz raises to the top. I have enjoyed pineapples only in Shillong. They were so sweet and juicy. When Krishnan and I visited Shillong in 2003, we again gorged on the pineapples. Infact when my friend … Read more
Till ten days back, if anyone said “Rajbhog”, I only thought of the Bengali sweet by that name. Even now if you merely type Rajbhog Mangoes, Google comes up with recipes for the sweet. I saw a message from EatRightBasket, the online organic store based in Noida saying they have the “Rajbhog” Mangoes from Bihar … Read more
See the following picture – An innocuous looking packet that resembles a single helping of sugar is actually Ethylene which is a fruit ripener. I knew that fruits were being ripened using some chemical but every time you bought fruits from a shop, they would not be in a box and you assumed that they … Read more
One of my favourite fruits is the pomegranate, but the effort involved in de-seeding it has always stopped me from buying a lot of it. Besides the pomegranates are artificially coloured and the seeds made to look a bright red. A few weeks back Krishnan found this short video on Facebook which gave a helpful … Read more
Yesterday mom juiced the last batch of apples that we got from Kullu, Manali. And we miss them already :):) there is a story associated with the Kullu apples. One of my Periyamma’s (my mother’s elder sister) was posted in Kullu as her husband was in the army. When I was 9 or 10 she … Read more