Welcome home

Welcoming our new family member home - who is such an important part of our lives.
After ten days of struggle, sending back two defective pieces, this good fella is here finally!
Don't you just love the paisley design?

Bye bye

There was a time our fridge was filled with Lindt Chocolate bars - and one by one they were devoured, over the last six months.
This was all that remained in the end as the last piece got over today.
Lindt Dark chocolate with orange and almonds - Love you!

Breezy Monday

One of the best weather days in a long time
An evening in the terrace
Lovely breeze
Little River Band on the iPod
Life is beautiful

Beautiful bread

From Ruci & Idoni
Multigrain with sesame seeds, flaxseeds
Soft and flavoursome
Love this bread

The Hyderabad Girls' on Twitter meet up

At Sweet Nirvana, Kavuri Hils, Hyderabad
8 girls
Lots of conversation and laughter
Lip smacking desserts
Good coffee

Yoghurt muffins

Very easy, delicious and healthy - mildly sweet
Tastes yum with a pat of jam
Also baked some butterscotch brownies for the Hyderabad Twitter girls meet up on Saturday

Atri see, Atri do

My son is at that stage where he likes to imitate everything we do.
Here he pulled out some old newspaper that was lying around and sat down in the balcony with his morning Biki pretending to read it. Never mind that the paper was upside down :)

Kway-Teo noodles with Oyster Mushrooms

Delicious dinner

Morning sun/ son

It's barely 6.30 am and we are well into our day.
Don't mind the Teacher's container - we use it to store the smaller wooden toys - just in case you were wondering!!

Fridge hunt

Most of you must have seen my rants on FB / Twitter - The hunt which started that weekend resulted in me buying it on this day - but then had to return it twice and over a week gone, am still waiting!!

Kaapi morning

Frothy Filter coffee - just the way I like it

Self

Since a coule of self shots are permitted in a month, this is one of them. Standing by the window, overexposed - from iPhone - what do you expect?

WIlly Wonka @ Cream Stone

Cream Stone is an ice cream chain that combines the flavour of ice cream and other stuff like cakes, candy etc etc on a slab of hard ice until creamy and serves it in a cup or cone.
This Willy Wonka was deadly, lived upto its name - chocolate pastry, chocolate ice cream, chocolate sauce all in one...deadly enough to make us miss dinner.

Shaky car -->shaky picture

One of the few things that managed to scare my otherwise very adventurous son!

Mango and coconut

Two of the trees hugging our terrace wall - coming in from the neighbour's compound to say hello!

Summer skies

Dinner came from these

Our friend got us these Thai Vermicelli noodles - only problem was that instructions were written in Thai and the pictures were not self explanatory.
Luckily, we have google.
About.com had a section on thai recipes that explained how to deal with these noodles - soaking in hot water for 10 minutes did the trick.
Dinner was these noodles tossed in oil with garlic, chilli flakes and peanuts, paired with Eggplant in Chinese sauce

Choco-Crinkle Cookies - Batch Two

A fat pinch of dried ginger powder went into this one
I'm getting confident in cookie-baking YAY

Choco-Crinkle Cookies - Batch One

A recipe from Jamie's blog
Used half all purpose flour and half whole wheat flour and did not manage to use all the oil as I forgot to add it earlier on.
Turned out just perfect

Fresh curry leaf podi

My neighbour gave me a big bunch of curry leaves from their farm and this was the best way to make use of them - Karuveppalai Podi