Month: September 2020

September 10, 2020

Calling Comfort Food ..

The red skies demanded us to stay home and gaze at the beautiful hue. The comparatively cold weather called for a hot soup. The lazy self called for comfort food aka an ‘easy-make.’ And the bounty of fresh veggies from our loving neighbors, (who were previously mentioned in this blog) begged to be used up while still firm and fresh. ‘Pappu Chaaru’ was the name […]

September 2, 2020

Lentils, meet lentils!

Culture shock wears many a mask. Some are scarier than others, leaving the jaw dropped for a substantial amount of time. Some are innocuous and make for a silly story. My husband mistaking the now universally loved donut to his spicy favorite Vada is one of those stories. There were many food-related mistaken identities. However, this story of Samuel mistaking a Donut to a close […]