Feeling soo Juneyy #4
01 Thursday Jun 2023
01 Thursday Jun 2023
30 Tuesday May 2023
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Hey everyone 🙋
Summers meant…no studies, endless play, hot sunny noons spent reading comics on the terrace, with endless supply of lemon juice, popsicles and kulfis…
Coming home to have a yummy lunch all made with mangoes…
Raw mango rice, mango dal, mango pickle and finishing all with sweet juicy alphonso mangoes…
Only memories remain of the awesome childhood days in the 90s…
So this summer decided to cook all of the above including my grandma’s ( avva as we called her) mango pickle!!
I remember her storing these in huge porcelain jars …
Best had with hot rice or with mashed curd rice..
So here’s a typical authentic Telugu style mango pickle or avakaya …made by my mil!!
What’s your childhood summer memories??
21 Tuesday Sep 2021
Posted Childhood Musings, India through my eyes, Just thoughts, Musings, Olden days, poem, Poems
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The above picture was taken at a confectionery shop at Kolkata’s City Centre 2..a shopping mall… One glance and it reminded me of the toadstools in the fairy tale books… Oh how I wish that was me sitting atop it…. 😍
Reminded me of this poem I read long long ago… It goes like this…
The Toadstool House
I wish I lived in a toadstool house,
Beneath an old Oak tree,
With a tiny door and a chimney pot,
And windows – one, two, three.
I’d play with each wee squirrel,
Who chanced to come my way,
I’d get to know the woodland birds,
And feed them every day.
And if you’d ever wandered by,
I’d ask you in to tea,
Inside my little toadstool house,
Beneath the old Oak Tree.
10 Friday Sep 2021
Hey everyone 🙋
Here’s wishing all a very Happy Ganesha Chaturthi..
To my non Indian friends it’s the festival in honour of the Elephant headed God celebrated widely in India..
Any auspicious occasion, celebration of any sorts is incomplete without invoking the blessing of Lord Ganesha..
Come Ganesha chaturthi and I drift away to my childhood memories…here’s the link to it…
I guess it is only links and links are all I have to take you down the memory lane…
While this interesting story is part of it too…
Don’t look at the moon.. It’s Ganesh Chaturthi
Have a great weekend everyone and Happy Ganesh chaturthi to all my friends celebrating it.. let’s go gallivanting again.. 🤗
05 Sunday Sep 2021
Posted Childhood days, Childhood Musings, Humor, India, India through my eyes, Pandemic Times, school days, Thoughts
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Today in India we celebrate Teacher’s day on the 5th of September every year to mark the importance of teachers in our lives and to honour Dr. Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan’s birthday.
With time.. The perception of teaching and teachers too have changed and the pandemic has contributed a lot to how toddlers perceive school or education..
Being a working mother of a 5 year old, I have to, play the role of a teacher too thanks to schools being closed and attend online classes with her🙄it is back to school time for me too🙈
All parents of toddlers experiencing this can relate… Of course it is just kindergarten but I feel the kids are missing out on a lot of things apart from just education.. The basic interaction.. Sharing…meeting up friends..playing with children their age..The joy of school all seems too distant a memory now..
Hoping things revert back to normal soon..wishing all the Teachers and Parents a very Happy Teachers Day!!
01 Sunday Aug 2021
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On friendship day today, Nah not that usual I did this.. My friends did this.. I was this.. We did this thing together…nope not at all..Just a few pics to make you and self reminisce about the lovely times we have shared with our friends..
Ups and downs..good and bad times..Friends come and go.. But everyone will have some memories which will last forever…
I even to this day big time b…h about all things possible with my friends and you know what makes me happy??when they agree and add more masala to the b……g and keep it going…we all laugh about it… Ahhh what a feel good factor…that’s a feeling.. you could hit the ceiling..😇
Happy friendship day to all my reader friends here at WP!!
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From the archives..
24 Saturday Jul 2021
Posted Childhood days, Childhood Musings, Food, India through my eyes, Indian food, Thoughts
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Weekend calls for some cheatmeals…sweeteats and all things delicious…😉 While I am busy counting calories, got a small cake for my lil one..
Everybody was kungfu fighting!!
The never ending panda love is being passed on…
Have a great weekend all… 🤗
22 Thursday Jul 2021
Posted Bangalore, Childhood Musings, Humor, Just thoughts, Musings, Olden days, Thoughts, Uncategorized
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Picked this one up from drafts..it states my life as a mother when Rhea( daughter) was a year old…
A quick post!! What with a one year old clinging to you everytime you pick up the phone to post something and then you are left wondering what was that you wanted to type??maid woes??new house rants??weight issues?? And then you feel post about this phase called being a mom!!!
Rosy and cute as it may sound..I am sure all parents out there especially mommies have been there done that so here I go
Even to this day…
Me, currently summarised in one word!!
Everyday I find myself mashing potatoes, lentils and rice for her, with a bit of spices for flavour and madam just refuses to eat and when I sit down with my diet food grumpy and starved she goes waaaaaaaa wanting to know what’s on my plate or wailing away until I pick her up!!
Ahhh so now the story makes sense🙃
Until next time, to all the mommies out there, sleep while you can..😴😴😴
14 Wednesday Jul 2021
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bangalore Idli, cheatmeals, easy recipes, Food, food food, golden memories, halli mane, Homemade goodness, Idli, India, Indian cuisine, indian culture, indianfood, Musings, oldendays, schooldays, southindianfood, Thoughts, traditional
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Today post is a very hungry one..Yes my hunger for the staple food in South of India..The Humble Idli!!!😋😋
Why humble??🤔Cause it is the cheapest food!!!
Easiest to make ( I guess only South Indians consider it easy to make) Like rajma chawal is a delicacy for us Southies, Idli is a delicacy in the North..( Speaking entirely and purely based on my experience)
So what is an Idli??!!💁 For my Non Indian friends, here is a link to the description about one of the awesome food South India has to offer..
My love story with idlis dates back to my childhood, when my mum used to give me and my brother 1 rupee on Saturdays ( somedays even she needed a break from cooking and we, a chance to gorge on outside food) So, those were the days when idlis used to cost us just 25 paise each, so 4 Idlis for a ruppee was an awesome deal, shared between me and my bro with the most amazing and tastiest chutneys!!🤤
Idlis in India is available at breakfast and dinner in high end restaurants and as street food too..
The taste of the Idlis sold in the carts is totally awesome and entirely different compared to the once sold at restaurants and hotels which boast of it as a rice dumpling steamed and simmered in spiced broth and blah blah blah, it’s a basic rice ball that’s it!!! 🤨😱😳😩
Coming back to my story, my mom used to pack 2 idlis with mint chutney for school..ahhh a memory I still can’t forget!!😍
A friend of mine amused me by having it with ghee and sugar, so you see, idli can be eaten with groundnut,coconut,mint chutneys..sugar..soaked in milk..with spicy lentil powder mixtures..with vegetable sambhar and the list is endless..
The next memory I have as I progressed to high school is of buying it from a small eateries called Sandarshinis for 1 rupee, the prices had increased by then..
My brother’s love for idli sambhar and vada surpasses mine!!
Every Saturday after the routine NCC drill in his school he used to treat himself to 2 plates of Idli Vada sambhar!!
💸The prices kept increasing from 25 paise in the 1990s to 1 ruppee in 1994 to 5 ruppees in 1998 to the current 30 ruppees for 4 idlis.. (street food prices) The hotels charge anywhere from 50 to 150 ruppees for a plate..
Idlis are mostly served in pairs cause no one can eat just one😋
In short, Idlis are the most basic and the most easily available and loved breakfast item that has ever been discovered to us South Indians!! More about my idli love in the next post.. Until next time… Enjoy hot Idli sambhar with cool cool chutney!! 🤗🤗🤗
23 Wednesday Jun 2021
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daughterlove, fathers day, golden memories, India, indian culture, Just thoughts, lostinself, Motivating, Musings, oldendays, positive thoughts, Thoughts
THE FOURTH CHOICE
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In continuation of fathers day, here’s a forwarded message.. It was soo touching that I had to share it..sometimes some messages really touch you and make you think and re think, so couldn’t resist sharing it..
A daughter asked her dad if she has ever made him cry in front of her before, because she did not remember ever seeing him cry.
He said, “Once.”
He told her that when she was 3 years old, he laid out a pen, a rupee, and a toy in front of her. He wanted to see which one she would pick…
It represents what you’ll value most when you grow up.
Like the pen is intelligence, money is wealth and the toy is fun.
He was just doing it out of curiosity.
It was interesting for him to see which one she would pick anyway.
He said that she just sat there and stared at the items. He sat across from her and waited patiently.
According to him, she crawled towards them, he held his breath, and she pushed everything aside and went straight into his arms.
He didn’t realize that he was one of the choices. And that was the first, and the only time she made him cry …