snack

A Fun & Healthy Snack !

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Snack - orange pickle and bread

Do read to see how you can make a healthy snack out of bread, homemade butter and homemade orange rind pickle 🙂

Re-imagining Traditional Food

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For the past 10 days, we have been trying to improve our intake of uncooked fresh vegetables because we realised that while we do eat healthy, the content of uncooked vegetables is very low in our preparations. I tried re-imagining two of our favourite breakfast items – Sabudana Khichadi and Poha. Sabudana Khichadi as Bhel … Read more

Mumbai Pav in Gurgaon

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On Wednesday (8th) we accomplished a much delayed project – we went to Vyapar Kendra, Sushant Lok and got my PayTM re-activated :):). For nearly a year, I couldn’t use my PayTM because the KYC was not done and there was Rs. 1500/- lying in the wallet un-utilized. The whole KYC process was painless and … Read more

Butter – not the melting kind, a Pune special

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Dearest Appa, This post has to be addressed to you because every time I eat a butter, I remember you and can almost hear you say “they use their feet to mix the dough, and maybe their sweat mixes with it or even worse, their snot”. It still didn’t stop me from loving this crisp … Read more

Down Memory Lane – Amma’s 75th @ Tirunelveli

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In December 2018, we started planning a surprise for my mother who turned 75 yesterday. Amma doesn’t wear new saris and she doesn’t like parties etc, but she loves the place that she was born and grew up in – Tirunelveli. So Krishnan suggested that we celebrate her 75th at Tirunelveli. I immediately booked our … Read more

New foods, fads – Bagel and cream cheese

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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