Week -4 Takeout Counts!

Parking Lot! (Jan 2013)

Parking Lot!

Week 3 - Leftovers!

Had a get together with some friends yesterday. Aadi decided the menu - daal makhani, aaloo posto , dimer malai curry, and chicken. 

We were so busy enjoying that we forgot to take a picture of the spread!

Simple Fare

Simple fare for breakfast today with croissants, wild blueberry jam, eggs, and coffee. Foodies are slacking already in week 2. Some teasing and some stirring up of competitive juices led Diya to sign up for making butter paneer today. 

This food blog is going to be a long haul ... and I am so looking forward to it! ;)

Huevos En Curry De Mustaza

Product, process, presentation

Diya’s Fish Tacos!

All aboard with foodie blogging plan. Diya made Fish Tacos! Turned out so good that people started hoarding the next helping, for fear that we might run out! Super fun!

Aadi Makes Luchis (and writes the blog)

The Product

(... with complimentary aloo dum!)

The Process

The Presentation

2019 Resolution - Eat, Eat, Eat!

We are still in the afterglow of our first European Vacation together and can't seem to get out of the food mania it induced. Kids LOVED the food and the trip re-ignited their interest in cooking and exploring new dishes and flavors. So with that, we have made a resolution to make FOOD the focus for this year. Each week we will experiment with a new food - cook a new receipt or find a new restaurant or order something unfamiliar in the menu - and then blog it!

Good luck to us for to keep the commitment through the year. 

With that - the new dish of this week was "apple cinnamon pancakes". Aadi made these and Diya and I added some touches. The recipe was -

Take buttermilk pancakes mix and instead of water (as the default recipe calls for), add milk, egg, butter, finely chopped apples, cinnamon and nutmeg - and cook them on VERY low heat. Enjoy with whipped cream!

As with any good recipe, it took some trial and error. At first we managed to burn these - we had added some ginger syrup to sweeten the batter, but the sugar burnt right away. Another mistake we made was to cook on high heat - this left the batter around the apple pieces to stay uncooked. So basically the pancakes were burnt on the outside and uncooked on the inside. Yuck. But the kids kept experimenting and finally got to success.

It was so much fun to watch them work through this and also resolve conflicts among themselves - the batter is too think, too thin, you need to cook these longer, increase the heat, decrease the heat .... will you let me do what i need to do and stop telling me what to do? Don't give that to Mishti. If I make pancakes, can you make eggs? Should we make bacon with this or sausage? Hey you need to help clean up too ....

Totally loved it!