Yet another food-post. Not very good for my media image; I seem
to be such a glutton.

Finally visited one of arunshanbhag 's favourites - Badshah Falooda
at Crawford Market. I had a Badshahi Falooda and the serving was
huge. Gobs of superb kulfi floating in a very large bowl of not-too-sweet
falooda. The flavoured milk had lots of chopped dry fruits; sabja and ( Read more... )

A perfectly-sized wada sitting snug in a fresh ( Read more... )

Sometimes you really miss someone. You genuinely want to meet
that person and you actually run into him/her in a most unexpected
manner. This is a wonderful kind of meeting; one that I experienced
today.

I also had a perfect lunch - great company, fun conversation and good
food. Before that I bought books - yes, yet again. Can I help it if 
Strand Book ( Read more... )

I went to the stationery store. Got some writing instruments for self
and headonist.

So did I really need any more pens? That is beside the
point.  : P And didn't I exercise strict restraint when it came to
those smooth, thick-tipped roller pens with colourful ink?

From today, I start a different kind of writing about food. I have 
begun a diet diary. ( Read more... )

I recently spent an entire afternoon wandering through an
interesting part of the city.
Let me see how many place-names I can recall:

Bhuleshwar - Teesra Bhoiwada
Pydhunie
Mumba Devi Mandir
Moolji Jetha Market
Jhaveri Bazaar
Mangaldas Market
Kitchen Garden Lane
Crawford Market

Somewhere along the way I spotted Pancham Puriwala and
Badshah and promptly ( Read more... )

What King, you ask??

The King of Fruits...the mango, the hapoos aamba.
I ate a hapoos yesterday.
Yeah, a mango, days before Gudhi Padva. When kairees have just
become visible in the markets. The hapoos was a gift and
what a gift it was!!  :D Perfectly ripe and deliciously sweet.

I don't like cutting a mango into pieces. I prefer a more natural way
of ( Read more... )

What did Chef cook for me?
Maggi two-minute noodles. No, really!   :T

He poured in a couple of sauces and sprinkled a bit 
of kothimbir. Then gleefully added some pasta. "It has
been lying around for months. I'll finally finish it off today."
he said. 
The end result was tasty; the noodles as well as the pasta
were cooked just right.

Next on the agenda was ( Read more... )

A relaxed afternoon gossip with K. Nothing ( Read more... )

Aai and I went shopping today ( Read more... )

Ironically, in a city which boasts of  a chaat place on ( Read more... )