Shaadi ki Saalgirah Mubarak ho

To Cousin Smi and S Bhaoji (i don't think i have ever called him Bhaoji :-) ). 15 years... a milestone...Wishing the funtastic couple tons and tons of happiness and fun.

Cousin Smi's wedding was such a memorable event for me. The whole family (it seemed like most of us went) travelled by train to B'lore. The journey was one of its kind eating all the yummy food that Sheila mami and Shamala mami had made, the idlis the dahi rice, singing songs, playing with the cousins... waking up early in morning (woken by Rmam) to drink the station ka chai so we could beat the other travellers to the toilets :-). Staying at the IDBI quarters and listening to Smi talk to San in Konkani (that a first time for me, I had never heard her speak in Konkani before) and we all had our jaws drop. Negotiating with the Rickshawala's each day over the fare (which would be different each day for the same distance). The wedding day, where we were all taking pictures of ourselves. Sanhita had all the bags labelled and categorized so she could find things inside the bags !!!!. Amazing...
I remember sitting next to Smi and waiting for the groom to arrive. When she saw him, she said " He kay ?? Whats that on his head, he looks like a jadugaar". Well... The Jadugaar obviously did some good magic... he got the beautiful bride.
There is so much more of that trip that I remember. I could go on and on...
Anyways, on that note... Wishing the lovely couple again...from all us phoenicians here....and from Aai and Pappa in mumbai and from akka in BKK ....

Diwali in Ghatkopar

What a gastronomically delightful site this is going to be Vee. Aai and me are excited about it and aai is feverishly looking through all her recipes and is all ready to contribute her recipes.
We couldnt have started at a better time than this either. Its the season to be jolly lalala, its the season of Diwali....With wonderful memories of our Diwalis in Ghatkopar, the fragrances wafting from the 'faraal', my mouth drools as I try to recreate a visual picture. But try as I may, those fun days are hard for Samar and his generation to picture. So this will be a wonderful way to revisit those days and relish and relive all my festive fun and frolic days. I remember the days when the 'patriarchal head foodie' in the family- Abbu and his brother Appani abbu talked about the food they ate and missed from their hometown of Gokarn. Most of their talk was usually about their favourite food .....Bangdya -thepla ambat....Abbu called it the 'Raja' fish.

Oh! I have digressed from Diwali. Will get started on the eats soon...Watch out for teh next post!! Until then a very Happy and Joyous Diwali from all of us to all of you

We did it...

Finally...After months of talking about it, we finally did it. Got this Blog going, i mean. The brainchild of Vee but the seeds were sowed by Cousin Smi. And Of course, she was the one who came up with the name. What a lovely idea to get all of us together, talking about the one thing we all love to do : make and eat good food:-) especially the ones that are created from our mom's and mami's and kaki's recipes. Hopefully the second generation that is us, will contribute some recipes that are adapted to our new style of cooking and living. So, whatcha waiting for...lets get started.