Don’t you just love dinner parties? I adore them. Large, small, medium, private, public, dancy, fancy, stuck up, footloose, dressy, casual, kiddie, couples, birthday, anniversary or just a ladies night – you name it and I love it. Creating…
Spiced dry potatoes!
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Once when I was around 11 years old, my Mom went into an emergency hospital situation, and I stayed with a kindly neighbor’s family. They were very sweet, simple, north Indian vegetarian people. Unfortunately, the ungrateful pre-teen that…
Menu Finds For Gala Dinner Extravaganza Week#1
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Hi Friends, Thank you for the great great response for the dinner invite. Look at the terrific entries that came in at the invite last week. Onto the Menu for Gala Dinner Extravaganza Week #1 LET THE PARTY ROCK!!!…
Weekend Gala Dinner Extravaganza Week #2
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Don’t you just love dinner parties? I adore them. Large, small, medium, private, public, dancy, fancy, stuck up, footloose, dressy, casual, kiddie, couples, birthday, anniversary or just a ladies night – you name it and I love it. Creating…
Roses and Peaches
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As I made my way back to the yogurt aisle, I saw a curious thing. A 20 something lady was talking on the phone, and at the same time, she was keeping the yogurt cups in her cart…
Green Cashew Rice & Grilled Tilapia with Balsamic dressing
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Another weekend in which we saw a few bad movies, debated politics, scrubbed and cleaned, cracked jokes, lectured the boys on good housekeeping, signed them up for Boy Scouts and generally had a good time.
Capsicum Pepper Stew – spices and herbs
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When I started blogging 4 months back, Carol was the very first blogger who became my subscriber. She was also the first one to nominate me for an award; I learned a lot about food, photography and in general…
Weekend Dinner Party Extravaganza!
by Minnie • • 31 Comments
Don’t you just love dinner parties? I adore them. Large, small, medium, private, public, dancy, fancy, stuck up, footloose, dressy, casual, kiddie, couples, birthday, anniversary or just a ladies night – you name it and I love it. Creating…
I won! Food Photography lessons learned and an exotic rose drink
by Minnie • • 26 Comments
I hope you all had a terrific weekend. For me, it was fabulous. Not only did I get to have some truly relaxing and quality time at home with hubs, kids and my K9 companions, but also my…
A dislocated ride and Homemade fries
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Twenty minutes into the Water Park, my husband dislocated his shoulder. Rewind. Charlie’s swim lesson adventures from her blog Hotly Spiced made me revisit an incident that happened when my younger son was about 3 years old. He…
Another crock pot gem – BBQ Baby Back Ribs
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Recently, I was featured on GoNannies.com’s post on best kid friendly crock pot recipes on the web. Say, ‘Wow!’ ;p I am on a crock pot roll. I invested some 40 odd dollars in a big, beautiful looking…
Eggplant Floats in bengal spice curry
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Saturday, whole day, we shopped for back to school clothing. Hubs and I always argue on what size to buy for boys. I like kids clothes to be a little big, he insists on getting the right…
Fried Rice and Chili Shrimps – an Indo-Chinese delight
by Minnie • • 7 Comments
In India, we have a Chinese cuisine that is unique to India. It’s called Indo-Chinese cuisine and tastes very different from the regular fare that you get in USA, or even mainland China for that matter. India boasts of a…