Wednesday, March 28, 2018

St. Patricks Day Parade

That was the St. Patrick's Day , and Mr. Man was going to talk with few people in the city for his tea business. ( those who wants to buy pure darjeeling tea, please visit: www.freshcarton.com). I also wanted to go with him, because my plan was to watch the parade there. I’ve never been in SFO to watch any parade. So, I wanted to have an experience on that. Though it was a Saturday, but it was extremely busy for me unlike other Saturdays. Actually I invited a family for dinner Saturday evening.


Monday, March 26, 2018

Afternoon tea at The English Rose

I already told you that Mr. Man and his friend has started a new venture on Darjeeling Tea. (those who are interested can visit: www.freshcarton.com) For that reason he has been talking with many of tea lounges nearby. One of them he found out was The English Rose tea shop. Few weeks back he went there to talk with the owner of the shop. After coming back from there he told me about that, and I also searched on the Internet.


The Entrance

I was completely blown away by the beauty of the tiny little fairy tale looking shop. I had been thinking of going there. I think  Mr. Man managed to read my mind, and one gloomy Friday morning he suggested me  to going there in that very afternoon. 


The gloomy Friday morning suddenly became a “one fine Friday Morning”. The day was extremely busy, as my son had a field trip, and I went with them as a chaperon. That consumed my entire morning. After coming back I had little time. So, we picked him from school , and directly went to that very fairy tale shop. The little shop just outside the downtown of Pleasanton. 

Interior



The entrance was not on the side walk, but on the side of the store. So, when we took the turn on the side, and came to the entrance, to me it was like, I found some hidden treasure. I love the shop, because I have a weakness on Shabby Chic style. I always want to decorate my house with that very style, but other won’t accept that. Anyway, we went through the “Alice in the Wonderland” door, and sat around a cosy little table with beautifully mismatching rustic white-pink chair. All the cushions, the tables, the chairs were not at all matching, but the owners mixed them so artistically that it created a fairy tale vibe. The fairies build their houses whatever they get in their hand in the woods. It was same as fairy tale cottage.


English Rose tea
Scrumptious Asparagus soup

Then came the menu full of different tea.  It was difficult to choose the tea from the almost never-ending menu, I chose English rose tea, with a sweet aroma of rose. Mr. Man chose oolong tea, and the kiddie wanted to taste chocolate tea. 


 I always love when the afternoon tea tray comes with all the scrumptious goodies. The sweet lady told me all the names, but unfortunately I forgot almost all of them. The cucumber sandwich, the sandwich croissant was the still. We couldn’t eat the sweets. So we packed them, and took home. However, we didn’t get chance to eat any of the them, as the reason is obvious.

 

I had afternoon in Wolsley in London, I enjoyed that a lot. That was my first experience of afternoon, but it was heavenly. I would love to go back again!



Friday, March 23, 2018

Five one Friday

I stopped writing Five on Friday. When looked back  I found that last I did in December. I have no idea why I’ve stopped writing the tidbits of mundane life. Anyway, I’ve thought of reviving it again. I hope now onwards again I’ll write this on every Friday. 


Monday:
It was lovely day. After a long time my best friend and I sat with coffee. We didn’t sit for coffee after December. So, it was our much needed break. After the remodeling is done, and she haven’t come my home. 
She was eager to see the changes. So, I decided to invite her for coffee, in the morning after dropping our children to school. Monday was again minimum day at school. So, we had to reach to school before twelve. Anyway we had a great time with coffee at my place. After school, we, all the moms decided to eat out, so we went to Sweet Tomato to have lunch. The monday was well spent.

Thursday, March 15, 2018

Cauliflower-peas curry


Few days back I suddenly found out one of my childhood friend through Facebook. She is now a resident of Germany, and settled there with her family, happily. Though I knew that she is living in Germany, but somehow we were not connected. She is a great artist, and we started chatting about painting, and eventually we landed in our magic kingdom of Childhood. We grew up in the same neighborhood, and we were great playmate. 

 

Monday, March 12, 2018

Thai noodle soup

I won’t say this exactly Thai noodle soup, as few ingredients were missing, like lemon grass. However, I had been craving so much for Thai food, I couldn’t resist but cook noodles  with whatever ingredients I had in my refrigerator. On the top of that I bought a can of coconut milk for cooking Thai food, but I didn’t use that. When I checked the expiry date of that can, I found I must finish that very soon. So, here comes my recipe.

Wednesday, March 7, 2018

The tea- Chai

Indians love tea. The love for tea came to India more than two hundreds years ago when the British started colonizing India. Although they left more  than seventy years back, but many of their colonial culture still remain in India, Tea is one of them. Making tea is different in parts of India. It depends on the culture, the environment, the weather, the quality of tea. Tea is grown in three parts of India, one in Darjeeling, one in Assam, and last one in Nilgiri, Southern Part of India. 

Tuesday, March 6, 2018

Runny Chicken Curry

Sunday was not a day for me. Actually, all started from Friday, and Saturday, was the busiest , craziest, and funniest day ever. My son went to participate Odyssey of the Mind. It was long day. Early in the morning I took him to swim class.  

 

Saturday, March 3, 2018

Love from friends

The gray colored uniform, the white ribbons on the braid, the black school shoes, suddenly find themselves resting on a corner of the few homes on a fine afternoon. The owners of them don’t need them anymore. Their service is no longer needed. The owners of them are leaving behind, and going to join the outer world. They are not little kids anymore. The running around in the huge playground of the school don’t attract them anymore. They are going to build their career.  Their extended childhood is giving them a farewell, with a smile ,but tears in eyes. The childhood knows that in future they will search me , ponder over and ever in life to get me back. As of now they have colorful dreams in their eyes. They desperately want to get their grown-up life. However, the childhood knows they want me back after twenty years, when they will totally involve in their grown up life. 

This is done by my friend R