Coconut Naadu

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक कराWhen I cooked patti shapta, there was little extra coconut mixture that i had prepared. I was wondering if i should prepare modak from it or not. And then ajoy suggested...

Patti Shapta

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक कराMa cooks this one quite often and since then i always thought of preparing this. But it was actually today when i could try it. It came out well though :)Ingredients1...

Corn Paratha

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक कराIt was long time since i tried something new in paratha. So when yesterday i was looking out for some dish which can take corn or pudina i came across the corn paratha...

Mung Daal

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक कराOf all Daals i just love mung daal and this is frequent in our meals.. It had never occured to me to post this recipe.. Its only when boudi's uncle (my sis-in-law's...

Gobi Lollipop

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक कराI wanted to cook something different with gobi as ajoy keeps getting this quite frequently and i was kind of bored to eat gobi sabji again. Then I had also read about...

Photographic memories

As a child I do not remember being photographed much - of course we had the occasional group photos where we sat in the order of height or stood like a line of suspects for an invisible witness to identify. The photographer never asked us to smile - he basically fiddled with his camera until he could get the entire group in focus and then clicked. My first photo as an adult was in college - I needed a passport size photo for some reason I cannot remember. It could have been for a hall ticket or something. In a scary dark room, the photographer...

Totaakaahini and Tare Zameen Par

'Being different' may be a great tagline for advertising products and films but not for the human species. You may be different or even special but sorry we prefer normal in our systems and societies - 'normal' as we define it, 'normal' as in being able to conform to our practices. We have no use for people who cannot 'fit in' - if you are a rebel and question we ostracize you, if you cannot cope we exclude you. We, as in our systems do not exist for you.You have to make the effort. We don't have to explain anything - things have "always been done...

Four months later...

A few months back I wrote about a problem that was weighing down my legs literally and my battle with matters of the flesh, actually matters that were building my flesh. OK it has been four months since and I went for the review. I cheerfully explained to the doctor how I had fought temptation during these four months staying away from chocolates and chips and how I did not miss my daily walks and more importantly, my leg pain was a distant memory. Finally I had nothing to be ashamed of when he asked me to step on his torture instrument, the scale....

Sinking Titanic

मराठीमध्ये वाचण्यासाठी इथे क्लिक कराLast sunday i desperately wanted to prepare black forest at home. But we didn't have proper glassware for baking cake and i wanted to prepare it in the nice new glassware....