A Rainy day Tummy filled with some cheese sandwiches and coffee, peanut butter sandwich for the kid (The second point is important because only when the tummy is full, such wild ideas come to a certain mom’s mind) 3. Kiddo decides she wants to use the new blue umbrella today 4. Mom decides to humor […]
Today after months, I took the toddler on an outing. With the lockdown restrictions slowly lifting and the season changing slowly to autumn, I woke up this morning deciding to make most of the pleasant weather (or so I thought). With a quick oats porridge breakfast for kiddo and a coffee for myself, I decided […]
“I want some Bhaatkhor”, my 2.5 year old chirps. I think I must have misheard, so I ask her if she wants some Bhaat (rice), and she replies “No, Bhaatkhor!”. I’m perplexed, I don’t understand what she is trying to ask. My mind immediately connects it to a rhyming word in Hindi, which I’m sure […]
A letter to my 2.5 year old: Dear M, I had just sat down to my dinner of rawa dosa, prepared by your father, when you came and gleefully announced that you have upended the salt canister into the laundry basket. I did not believe you at first because after your last salt episode (where […]
Life with a toddler can be very ‘interesting’ as I am discovering each day. We haven’t seen the sun for the past month or so. It’s always been drizzling- that softly falling rain where you think you don’t need an umbrella but you do! Damn if you open it, damn if you don’t. Stroller and carrier […]
This one took a while to make the cut, but for a while now, it is my go-to zatpat (quick to make) dish..that is hot, yummy and oh-so-satisfying.. It’s a rainy Saturday morning, and the Scientist is away at a conference. Following a friends’ WhatsApp message to not let the housework “virus” catch you unawares, […]
I have been absent from the blog for a longish while now. There were so many multiple projects going on, that writing took a back seat. I finally found some quiet time (and inspiration) to pen a post, so here goes. Everyone who has tried a hand at baking knows that baking and health/nutrition do […]
Dear Mouse-in-the-House, I am mad. Like, really mad. Stark, raving are the adjectives that come to mind. And hence the letter. You must be musing, sitting there on our table, hiding behind the kalash, what I am talking about. But that is what we were taught, you see. Write letters if you have problems – […]
Take an evening stroll in any one of the many open public spaces in Taipei, and you can see the dancing Ajjis (grandmothers) of Taipei. I first noticed them on my return from yoga class. It was dark and I could hear English music. On closer look, I realised that there were women dancing on […]
I have just returned to work from the heady aamras- poli (or phulka, to be politically correct) lunch. For the uninitiated, aam = mango, ras = juice, poli/phulka = Indian flatbread. Now why am I writing about mangoes, when the rest of the folks back home are celebrating monsoon (or the lack thereof) with bhajias, […]
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