Misery loves company and so does tea. As much as I love tea, truth is that more than half of the fried snacks in India are had along with tea. If we quit tea for a month, my guess is that each of us will lose at least 3-4 lbs. weight. But then, giving up on the “Elixir of Social Life”, is it really worth it? [Read on…]
Last week, we celebrated our son’s 5th birthday and we used that opportunity as an excuse to throw a house-warming party for our family and friends. It was such a fun evening that just thinking about it brings a smile to my face. I think, good friends do that to you. But there is something about kids’ birthday too, I must say! It, most often than not, brings out the child within us. And I have come up with a theory of my own regarding this. Kids, their age, can only do so much to entertain everyone. I mean, let’s be honest, all they care about is having a good time themselves and so the responsibility to make the party fun and interesting falls upon ‘us-adults’. Is that a twisted logic or does it make any sense, what-so-ever? [Read on…]
I don’t know what else to call it!! I really don’t!! When I first saw this brioche in Dorie Greenspan’s book ‘Baking- From my home to yours’, I knew instantly (actually, after I had drooled all over that page) that I won’t be able to sleep unless I make this bread. Even though this bread required multiple rises, there was no way in the world that I would go on with my life without tasting a slice of this glorious bread. And I have to tell you, it was my best ‘To-bake-or-Not-to-bake’ decision ever!!!! One bite into this bread and I was an official Dorie Greenspan FAN. I, then emailed the ‘HMH Trade Publishing’ house and asked for their permission to use this recipe on my blog and they were gracious enough to let me. [Read on…]
As a mother of two kids, it gives me nightmares to think that my older one will be going to school next year. Every few days, I hear some heartbreaking and scary incident in school which makes me want to homeschool my child. Now, I know that we need more strict gun control in this country but my biggest problem is with the schools themselves. I come from a very small town (Jodhpur) in India and even there, my school gates would close when the school started and remain closed during school hours. [Read on…]