Bring a Plate

For the Professional Year course which Praveen has been attending since January this year, today all were asked to bring a plate for lunch. 'Bring a plate' means you need to get a dish along for a gathering to share with everyone (just like potluck in India!). Praveen prepared yummy and creamy Sevaiya Kheer as his plate!

While he cooked, I made an ingredient card which detailed on what the plate contained (just incase if anyone was allergic to nuts!).

The item was loved by one and all at lunch with the trainer commenting 'You have used one of the costliest ingredient in this preparation - saffron strands!'.  

It was equally fun for Praveen to enjoy the dishes prepared by his classmates on this occasion and moreover a great platform for each one to present the authentic taste of their cultural cuisine!

Dadda's Girl

We picked a cute dress and a baby carrier for Anvitha. We thought both these would be of great use to them for their current phase of parenting. The shirt was a way too sweet for me to resist buying! The lovable lettering: 'Apple of daddy's eye' was something which attracted me even more as she is her Dadda's girl!

Error 401

Today as I tried to open the Blogger app, the Error 401 hit the screen repeatedly. On investigating I found out that Google has removed the mobile app for blogger. This is surely going to be a major inconvenience to blog. Its soo very easy to tap the app, write a post and quickly upload pics from the phone.
I hope they restore the app soon!  

Nostalgia

Whenever I walk by the streets these days, the autumn breeze and the maple leaves floating around with the wind reminisce me of the bollywood movie Mohabbatein!

Not that I was a fan of the movie, but its theme, music, scenery everything notably revolved around the 'Fall season' which is something that we never got to see and feel living in India. Viewing the trailers, we felt its a dream come true to get to experience the golden maple trees in autumn.

'Dreams DO come true' is the only thing I feel now!

The Lucky One!

The Orange tree in our frontyard has bore oranges for this season(though they are yet to ripe) but there is still one orange from last year on the tree! Its peel has wilted to such an extent that each segment inside it can be clearly seen. I am surprised to see it in this condition for quite a few months!

Certainly its the lucky one to enjoy a long life amidst nature!

Anzac Day Outing

Australia celebrates 25th April as Anzac Day in the memory of all Australians and New Zealanders who served and died in wars, conflicts and peacekeeping operations. On this occasion of the national holiday being coupled with beautiful weather, we thought of exploring the Yarra Bend Park.

This park has a circuit of trails and two huge play-areas. We walked through a trail which looked like a scenic heritage route formed by a tunnel of golden orange maple trees! It was fun to enjoy the fall season at the park.

The attraction of the park was the 'Dights Falls' which was simply refreshing in the bright sunshine! It reminded me of 'Baneshwar' a place on the outskirts of Pune which has similar natural beauty.

As we reached the elevated area of the park, we also saw the formations made by the army, navy and airforce planes to mark this day of patriotic importance.

It was great place for a half day excursion.

A Cute Viewer

At our Badminton Club today, we had a little sweet-viewer. Our DBC coach got his daughter who joined us at the court!

She was such a darling cutiepie ready to come to all players and everyone was equally keen on playing with her. She was observant all throughtout and enjoyed her Sunday special badminton outing with her dad!