Weekend fun!

My family and me went for a drive from Pune to Varandha ghat last Saturday. It was an impromptu picnic with last minute grabs of whatever food we could pack in ten mins. The rains have made that entire road beautiful with small rivulets and waterfalls revealing themselves in every nook and corner. The kiddo loves our 'spur of the moment' picnics and enjoyed being dunked in a waterfall too. We love doing unplanned stuff and this was one trip where we couldn't decide when to stop clicking photos. 

Corn Bhel

A yummy snack for a rainy afternoon. Very quick to put together and quicker to disappear.

Just toss some boiled corn kernels, a chopped tomato, half of a chopped onion, half cucumber chopped fine and some chat masala and salt together. Top it up with some sev and go ahead and eat. As simple as that! 

Paneer Makhani

Pratibha from The Chef and Her Kitchen is one lady whose blog i love to follow. Her recipes have been tried and tested and passed by the entire family many times. Last Sunday, after being prodded by the better half for about a week on the short lunches and shorter dinners that i serve, i decided to go for something grand. I settled on Paneer Makhani because Ira is in a paneer loving stage now. Needless to say this very clear and step by step recipe from Pratibha's blog resulted into an awesome dish. In a fir of the home godess avatar i even made the paneer at home from scratch. We finished it in no time and this is surely going to be my preference for all the future dinner parties. I don't have a picture to show you my efforts but a happy and content husband and kid who slept away all the afternoon and did nothing all evening proves it was an effort well invested. 

New thoughts

During my afternoon thought sessions i realized that i was cramming two different loves of mine....cooking and quilting in one blog and was getting more and more confused about what to concentrate on. So i have decided to move all my food related activities to this blog and keep the other only for fabric related experiments.  This, i foresee will encourage me more to cook.

P.S. I love to think i love to cook....and i only run after time saving and quick recipes :).

A prolonged summer

Clear skies, perfect sunshine....all indicators of a perfect summer. Except.....this is supposed to be monsoon already. Indian seasons are getting confused as the years go by. The rains should have officially arrived a month back however here we still are blessed with a perfect summery weather. Apart from the absence of mangoes one really wouldn't know. The downside to this perrrrrfect weather is the power cuts and the water cuts. Having to time the chores according to the whims and fancies of water and power supply is proving to be a merry dance. DH is known to find a silver lining in even the drabbest of clouds. He says it's a good opportunity for me to improve my housekeeping efficiency :).