Wednesday, September 28, 2016

Legoland trip

Past two years we had been thinking going to Legoland. However, every time something happened and we cancelled the trip. After my son finished his grade one we decided to visit Legoland that very summer, but he broke all rules, and behaved very badly. I asked him to stay good and listened to me for the first month of summer, if he wanted to go to Legoland. He directly told that, he didn’t want to visit Legoland. So, at that very moment we cancelled our trip. Next this summer we decided to go , but we faced some unavoidable circumstances, and had to change our plan. 

Monday, September 26, 2016

Little one turned eight

The month September is very exciting to our sonny boy, because it is his birth month! Since the very first day of the month he had been counting the days. He was eagerly looking forward to it. Every morning he used to tell me how many days to go. His all waiting came to an end on last Friday. A last he turned eight. He was so happy. Ge was the last in his class to turn eight. 

The banner


Anyway, he wanted me to bake his birthday cake with a plane on it. This time we decided not to have any party, rather to celebrate only between ourselves. We already went to Legoland for his birthday earlier this month. I decided to do everything at home, even making the goodie bags for his friends. So, from Thursday, I had been extremely busy. Thursday morning I baked more that two dozens of cookies to distribute among his friends. 

cookies


However, in the afternoon after coming back from home he declared that, I couldn’t give away all the cookies. Since it was his birthday, I must give importance to his decision . Also, I was extremely tired of cooking, decorating, shopping, visiting library, so, I didn’t want to go on any argument. Again I baked some mini cupcakes, which was easier to me,rather than baking bunch of cookies again. Mr. Man went to buy some small gifts. In late evening, we three sat down, and prepared all the goodie bags, which were to be distributed on the very next day. 

The cake with plane 


After dropping him off at school, I thought I would come back home, but then I realized I had volunteer duty in school. So, after finishing all those tasks, I hurried back home, and started preparing for night time celebration. First was to bake the cake. I decided to bake chiffon cake. However, when I read the recipe it was little bit daunted to me.

Mini muffins
The goodie bags


 I was skeptical about the result. Then I thought of giving a try. To my amazement, it came out perfect. Then it was time to cook biryani. Mr. Man and sonny boy, both wanted mutton biryani for dinner. I prepare the mutton Thursday evening. After putting the cake in the oven I started cooking biryani. Though I made only three dishes for the celebration, but all of them were very elaborate. There was no short cut method known to me to  prepare them. Anyway, I successfully made all of them. As a gift he got Lego City Sea operation. He was super excited. He spent the whole Saturday to built that. 

Biryani

Thursday, September 22, 2016

Beet root chops

One big beet root


One big potato


Two tsp. of garlic powder


One tsp. cumin powder


One tbsp. of Kausari methi ( dried fenugreek leaves)


Bread crumbs


Salt to taste


Oil for deep frying



Monday, September 19, 2016

Day in the life-A busy weekend

I’ve never shared “Day in the life”. There is nothing to share in day to day normal, obscure life. However,after spending the whole Saturday, I just want to share this very weekend with you friends. The weekend was not a typical lazy weekend, or not very eventful. However, it was extremely busy weekend, though we never went out of home. 

Friday, September 16, 2016

Dal fry

What is dal fry? I really didn’t how to dal fry. I heard about it many times. However, I never cooked it, I don’t why? Anyway, one day I asked my best friend what actually a dal fry. I found out that, it is nothing but a way to make left over lentil soup tasty. She told me the recipe. When I went to cook, I found that, the main ingredient, green lentil was absent in my kitchen. I searched in the pantry, there was new package of green lentils. 





Wednesday, September 14, 2016

Salmon in Mustard gravy

After spending a whole day in Legoland I was tired like a dog. I was dying to get out of Legoland, but kiddie and Mr. Man was still full of energy. Kiddie desperately wanted to ride the last roller coaster which was still left. I have a fear of roller coaster, so I waited outside when two of them went to ride. I just wanted to sleep on the bench. Anyway, our plan was to our friend’s house who lives 80 miles from there. Again it was another one and half hour drive. Tough I don’t drive on those long distance travel, still it was painful to sit back. We reached their place at 10 o’clock at night, the family greeted us warmly. Kiddie was feeling tired and hungry like starved hunter. When I could put the bags down at their home, I sighed in relief. Anyway, to fill our hungry stomach they arranged some hearty dinner. My friend cooked Rohu fish in mustard gravy. It was extremely delicious. I asked her the recipe.  Today I’ve cooked salmon based on what she told to me.

Monday, September 12, 2016

Eating Sushi

“Sushi eating experience?” yes. I didn’t it till date. No, no actually long ago I ate sushi at a restaurant, but unfortunately the experience was not good. After eating sushi at that time, I dared to try sushi again. Many of my friends told me that sushi is really delicious. Even my husband likes sushi a lot. Whenever, he asked me to have sushi, I always turned down his suggestion. However, in recent time I just wanted to try sushi again. But taking my son to have sushi wouldn’t be good experience. He was not going to love anything , rather he would disturb a lot, so that we couldn’t even get the actual taste of sushi.

Thursday, September 8, 2016

Upper Yosemite Falls hiking

For four months we had been planning to go to Yosemite National Park. This time our plan was not  just go to the Park, but to hike on a difficult trail. Anonymously it was decided  that we would hike on the Upper Yosemite Falls trail. There were many more difficult trails to hike. An avid hiker could find the Yosemite National Park  is very enticing. As the day was coming nearer other hikers in our team were more into lunch and dinner ideas rather than hiking. The Friday evening when we reached there , one by one hikers started withdrawing from the hiking next day. However ,Mr. Man was determined to go. I was little undecided, but Mr. Man didn’t let me stay at  the hotel.