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HELLO AGAIN…AM BACK FROM BEAUTIFUL SYDNEY!
“I’ll probably live in Sydney”Andre Benjamin We had the time of our lives…literally!! It’s been a while that I’ve been missing, & am finally back from beautiful & mostly sunny Sydney. Rather eventful trip, as all trips with kids generally tend to be. Went for about 10 days, via HKG, where we had a brief stop-over.In Sydney, by the 5th day, daughter dearest decided to unleash a fury of yellow colour over Aussie land. She developed viral hepatitis with jaundice…hmmmmmmm, talk about bad timing! Life is … The rest of the trip was pretty much with doctors & emergency & hospitalisation…basically a pretty ‘yellow’ grand finale! We spent the last…
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CELEBRATING WITH A CHOCOLATE WALNUT TORTE
“Chemically speaking, chocolate really is the world’s perfect food.” Michael Levine I saw this beautiful torte at Canela & Comino, a lovely Peruvian blog a while ago. Gretchen had posted it to celebrate a win for her recipe that was chosen by Michelle at Greedy Gourmet as the winning stew recipe for Homegrown Gourmet #4!! It’s sometimes quaint & coincidental how things happen & reach a common point. A torte that becomes a celebration, not just once, but again. For me, as a coincidence, it’s a matter of the gorgeous torte being in the right place at the right time! It’s time to celebrate my blog’s make-over! All credit goes…
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BLOG ACTION DAY….A PERSPECTIVE ON POVERTY
“Poverty is everyone’s problem. It cuts across any line you can name: age, race, social, geographic or religious. Whether you are black or white; rich, middle-class or poor, we are ALL touched by poverty. “ Kathleen Blanco It’s Blog Action Day today & the focus is on POVERTY. What is BLOG ACTION DAY all about? “Blog Action Day is an annual nonprofit event that aims to unite the world’s bloggers, podcasters and videocasters, to post about the same issue on the same day. Our aim is to raise awareness and trigger a global discussion. Global issues like poverty are extremely complex. There is no simple, clear answer. By asking thousands…
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Baking | The original butter chicken … make yours at home
” If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men have found a home from the very earliest days when man began the dream of existence, it is India.” Romain Rolland Today is India’s 61st Independence Day… & I decided to post something Indian today. In fact, India’s most popular gastronomic export to the Western world, which is Butter Chicken or Murgh Makhani. Quoting from a snippet in a tabloid debating butter chicken vs chicken tikka masala…”Many years ago, a man named Robin Cook, not the novelist, but the late Labour Party leader & Britain’s Foreign Secretary, had stirred an international gastronomic…
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Myriad of colours…Nature in full glory!!
IN ANTICIPATION OF WINTER IN DELHI… We have flowers that burst from every nook and cranny when winter arrives, unlike in colder countries, where flowers are a sign of Spring! Pictures from our garden over the last couple of years. Posted by Deeba @ PAB
