I love almost all the fruits and vegetables belonging to the Cucurbitaceae family. My most favourites are sweet pumpkins, watermelons, muskmelon and such. They are not only juicy, fragrant, sweet delicacies but they come in a variety of beautiful shapes, colours and designs. I am always looking for different kinds of pumpkins and melons to try. And that’s how I […]
The Mango Tree
Originally written in the diary-cum-book by Ruskin Bond – Words from the Hills on 5th March, 2018. Every morning while preparing breakfast I stand in front of the kitchen window for a couple of minutes to look at the mango tree in our neighbour’s yard. Since I have come to live here, I had only seen dusty green leaves or […]
Book Musings: Underland
Underland: A Deep Time Journey by Robert Macfarlane I had bought this e-book in a sale a couple of years back but I deferred reading it because I don’t like reading longer books (more than 350 pages) in Kindle (I love holding fatter paperbacks, highlighting passages and placing post-it notes/page markers as I read along). But, now my unread list […]
Beautiful, yummy Roselle
In my hometown, Ranchi, the flower of Roselle or locally called “kudrum” is a local delicacy which is used to make achaar (pickle). It has a tangy flavour when bitten into and is apt for pickles with a lot of spicy chilies and earthy garlic. In Bangalore, I’ve tried the saag of leaves of Roselle called gongura pachadi (sorrel chutney). […]
Taro – A comfort food and a beautiful plant
Taro or locally called “Kacchu” in Jharkhand is one of my favourite vegetables. In fact, now that I think about it, I like all kinds of corm, tuber or rhizome vegetables. This particular vegetable is a winter comfort food for me alongside sweet winter carrots, potatoes, radishes etc. When I was young I loved slurping the jharkhandi delicacy of daal […]
75th Year of Independence of India
I recently finished reading the first book of Partition Trilogy by Manreet Sodhi Someshwar, Lahore. While I did not like the book for certain reasons (maybe I should write a review? Ah well…), with our 75th Independence Day coming in just a couple of weeks, I am glad I picked up this book (definitely not realising its connection to the […]