July & Aug 2022 – Meeting Friends !!
The two months before September have all been about meeting friends ! With the pandemic receding, its so refreshing to meet people again.
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Pudina Rice
Made Pudina Rice a couple of days back. I made it the OPOS way, but the recipe is from Hebbar’s kitchen. #GoVegetarian
Old Delhi ….
On Dec 4th, we went to Daryaganj to see if Krishnan’s name can be rectified on the PAN card. We need to register ShikshaDaan on Darpan and for that Krishnan’s name isn’t getting added as Chief Functionary because his name is spelt differently on Aadhar and PAN. We were going on the Asaf Ali Marg … Read more
Day Trip to Ljubljana & Lake Bled – part 1
Sept 19, 2019 – Day 19 Ljubljana, Slovenia A couple of days back we had booked our day trip to Ljubljana (pronounced as Lyublyana), the capital of Slovenia and Lake Bled through Free Spirit Tours. This was a small group tour in a car and that worked just fine for us. We had planned it … Read more
Anniversary Lunch – at Ashoka
Sept 7, 2019 – Bratislava, Slovakia As I had mentioned in my earlier blog, while we took the tram from Hlavna Stanica (railway station) to Hlavne Namestie (main square), I happened to notice this Indian restaurant near the Postova, Martinus stop which is the tram stop before the main square. By the time we completed … Read more
Germany Day 16 – Picnic lunch in an English Garden
Sunday Sept 16, 2018 – Munich The last week has been such a blur of activities that I haven’t had the time to write at all. Today I told Keshav and Anu that till I write my blogs am not doing anything else :). Today being Sunday and since we are in Germany, it was … Read more
Noodles in a jiffy !
Today’s lunch was noodles for Krishnan and I. Amma ate a little because it was made at home and then went to her rice and rasam :). Its a huge progress from the days when she would refuse to eat anything that was called noodles or pasta or macaroni. Food is a such a deep … Read more
New foods, fads – Bagel and cream cheese
I ate a bagel with cream cheese today from Au Bon Pain and I was remembering the first time I tasted a bagel with cream cheese and fell in love with both … I think it happened in 2007 during one of my visits to Lincolnshire, I was attending an early morning meeting with Greg … Read more
Different weekends !!
Yesterday was meeting Manish and family and trying out Kerala style “Veg stew” for the first time … It’s also the first time I realised I have only 6 small “katoris” and a dozen of them have been left behind in Gurgaon. I can’t invite you home Dhruv, I know :):) The day before was … Read more
Lunch with school friends
The Bangalore gang of 2013 and 2014 PGPMAX batches met today for lunch… The pre-reads, assignments, professors, Dean’s list, Bean’s list and mini regression to being students again :). It has been four weeks since our classes are done and everyday I have withdrawal symptoms – even now if I watch a movie, am thinking … Read more