Have a wonderful Diwali and new year everyone!
And here’s wishing that I don’t send out invitation cards to misery this year.
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Posts from ‘October, 2008’
Happy Diwali!
Chana dal ~ Diwali special snack
Today is Vakbaras and the Diwali marathon has officially kicked off in my kitchen! Since I favour farsaan (namkeen/karam whatever) over mithai just a little bit, the first one in the Diwali series is a farsaan – fried chana dal.
I’ll let the picture do the rest of the talking and give you the recipe. The source [...]
Gearing up for Diwali
Diwali is just around the corner, and if you are bursting with enthusiasm like me, but don’t know how to go about celebrating it on your own, here are a couple of cool ideas that I found to be very simple and doable.
- Make an aakash kandil. It’s actually a class 2 crafts project kind [...]
Cloth coasters
Guess who was bit by the creative bug last weekend?
I used scraps from old clothes and also got carried away a little and almost cut the skirt I was wearing, while on the lookout for a pretty print patch. And I have these four very colourful, reversible tea coasters sitting pretty on my tea [...]
Daylight robbery
You know how it is when you go shopping at a bookstore right? You buy and you buy and you still can’t get enough. So when I got tired of scanning row after row, shelf after shelf and bagged books and DVDs that could last me saat janams, I pulled myself to the billing counter, [...]