Khaman Dhokla

Khaman Dhokla is a traditional Gujrati breakfast dish which I thought could be cooked to perfection only by a native of Gujrat. Rather the soft, spongy and light dhoklas could never be prepared in our house. After scanning through a few videos, I got an excellent recipe of this dish which turned out great today!

                                 

On the eve of mother's day we wished our moms and thought of celebrating it by munching on garam homemade dhoklas!One more mouth watering preparation has added in my current list in which I am sure I wont go wrong anytime I make it!

Welcome to Bengaluru!

With the mercury levels rising in India, the only thing we hear when we ring anyone back there is "We are burning in the hot sun! Maybe you could pass on some rains here from Australia!(Wish I could)". Finally few states have received the first showers and cooled down the weather a bit. My friends and family were overjoyed and shared photos and videos of the first rain (as if this is something unusual and they dont get to see it often!)

I hope it pours down heavily in this rainy season restoring the water levels back to normal.

Choco Roman

One of Praveen's classmate shared Choco Roman wafer cookies at their Bring a Plate event last week. What makes me write about them here, is their super-light wafer covering and the delicious chocolate cream filling. They were really yummy and I enjoyed every bite of them!  

At Peace

The picture speaks for itself on the serenity in the surrounding and the calmness around. The rains have restored back the greenery and coolness abating the harsh heat. Its the perfect time to ramble over the city!

Maple Rose

The other day I read a tutorial on Pinterest which gave stepwise instructions to make a maple rose. It was in my 'To be tried list' especially for the Fall season since then. Finally today, I managed to collect some fallen leaves before they are swept off the roads!  Though not to perfection, my rose still looks pretty with the natural blend of red and yellow shades of the leaves!

JimJam

JimJam has a very special place in my heart! I still recall how crazy we were to have it when it was first introduced. The attractive packet wrapping, flower shaped outer round biscuit, thick vanilla cream, royal red strawberry jelly at the centre, everything looked immensely catchy in its first sight!

Every biscuit used to melt in the mouth and I always wondered why that pack couldn't fit in some more!!
All these memories of school time flew rapidly when I saw it kept in the store and finally got one to enjoy the same feeling that I would experience then!     

Adorable Anvitha

I decided to make yesterday special by spending an entire day with Anvitha. She is just two n half months but her development and responses are way more than anyone would expect! She's healthy and energetic and constantly likes to observe things around her. She coos looking at pictures in the book and enjoys storytime a lot. Anusha shared a recent big change of her's with me : while she narrates her a story, she doesn't blink her eyes even once! She's also started to imitate her mom by a slight tongue movement indicating she wants to talk as well! That is really so sweet!

Another exciting part was to see her facial expressions change rapidly while she was in deep sleep! She smiled, giggled, yawned which made us take her pics at each moment! She's turns partially and shows a great effort to roll on her tummy. Her mom and dad are just waiting for that milestone to be achieved!

It was a fun-filled day to experience all her activities which keeps Anusha and her mom constantly on their toes. But the baby's smile and touch is indeed a divine feeling which vents out their tiredness in no time and they are ready for the next day!