Appa's Kurma

Appa catches many cookery shows on TV. This time after being considerably inspired by Chef Damu's recipe - he made this Vegetable Kurma for dinner today! I really appreciate how he sourced every single ingredient over two days - chopped all the vegetables patiently to size with his recently recovered fractured hand.
The kurma smelled divine from the fresh whole spices I got home from Munnar and the fresh masala that appa ground for this dish!

Happy...

 ...that I'm catching up with my aunt and uncle today over simple food and elaborate conversations. The latter more with my aunt :)

Loved these candy coloured lantanas that grow wild in my compound, put a couple of stalks in a jam jar to cheer up the table (thanks for the name A - it just slipped off my mind)

Sari stacks

Visited the Numaish - 2010 with my neighbour aunty, and boy, what an experience - even for a Bombay girl it was an overwhelming experience - 3 hours of walking and we hardly covered a fraction of the 2500 stalls - and the crowds - what do I say - this happens only in India.

This picture was from a stall of the Bengal cottons - what weaves and what colours - absolutely brilliant - if I did not have two dozen sarees dying to be used in my wardrobe, i'd have gone ahead and bought some. On second thoughts, I might go back on a weekday and buy a couple - especially one off white and gold, and a traditional Bengali red!

Adding two more pics for Indian saree lovers...

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This exhibition is on for some more days in Hyderabad, so if you are here, then do make it a point to visit this.

An article in The Hindu about this exhibition.

Block-printing neighbour

It feels wonderful to see freshly block printed fabrics in a different colour every morning hanging in the neighbouring backyard - what lovely shades of red and pink!

*Pic taken from my phone as I feel kinda odd poking my camera's zoom into the neighbour's house :P

A broken fridge magnet...

...found it's place on the dining table for a while - now it's back to where it belongs - thanks to Feviquick!

Baby socks

The toy basket

A top view of Atri's toy basket - just felt nice looking at the riot of colours

Fresh

The satisfaction of doing small things by myself, sometimes....

Grey area

The resident black cat commando of the building rubs himself on the concrete, under the neighbour's clothes line.

Yellow, brown and green

Colours from a wonderful neighbourhood restaurant where we went lunching with my parents

A collection of blue

Just a capture of all blue things that had gathered together on our dining table - all by chance!

Blue carton of aluminium foil, empty bottle of Blue Label, blue lid of biscuit dabba, blue cotton placemats and table cloth and my favourite bottle of Body Shop Oceanus lotion ;)