Perhaps I should begin with a disclaimer: This is a far departure from my usual posts about food, travel and adventures. So feel free to skip, if this subject grosses you out. But fellow sisters might want to go on and read it before making up their minds. That said, today’s post is about menstruation. […]
After a post about idly, a post about the dosa simply had to be written…(nahi to idly ko bura lagta!!) As far as food relationships go, idly and dosa are siblings – born from the same parents, urad dal meets (or mating with) rice (some furious fermenting between the sheets is required). While we always […]
Life has an unexpected way of teaching you lessons. And some of the most profound messages are delivered in the quietest of manners…such was a lesson I learnt from my curry leaf plant. I had procured the curry leaf plant locally at the Jianguo weekend nursery market (if you are a plant lover, you must […]
Now any person who cooks has to know his or her share of failed experiments in the kitchen. It’s almost a rite of passage to fail in your first few attempts, as you try and master your kitchen and the intricacies of cooking. And I don’t only mean the extra or no salt kind of […]
The temperature has suddenly dropped a few degrees and a chill has set in. The yoga class has whipped up a vigorous appetite. And I find myself reaching out for a bowl of steaming hot idly, dunked in delicious sambhar and topped with ghee…Ah, sheer bliss! Idly was a rather popular item in mom’s household. […]
So just last week, I discovered the hullabaloo that was bulletproof coffee..I had read about it on some blogs, and passed it over, thinking that is one thing I am not trying. As they say, never say never… So today, since I have had a cup, and posted on FB about it (what with the […]
Take a loan, and drink ghee! So goes the Sanskrit saying… What can we say about this golden elixir, except that it has entrenched itself firmly in not only Indian kitchens, but now is slowly making it’s way into many western ones as well. Long before the west woke up to the amazing benefits of […]
And so it was that after spending a bright, sunny Saturday at the Farmers’ Market at Yuanshan, watching the planes take off, and the kids fascinated by enormous soap bubbles, we decided to stretch our legs a bit, and take a walk, to the Shilin Night Market. Now technically this is just two stops away […]
Last time I wrote how I began my musical journey..This post is about how it continued after a seemingly long break, and how it continues even today… The miracle that I spoke about in my last post is about how I found my teacher and my guru, Mala aunty (for that’s what I went on […]
The setting for today’s post couldn’t be more apt. The Scientist has decided that the sitar has been lying around too long untouched, so he is providing the perfect background score, while I pen my thoughts… Music has run in my family for the past many generations. My great grandmother, Nena, had a very sweet […]
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