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| Chose the book first |
Over the few weeks I have been trying to find time to post
latest updates. About a month ago, I started semi-solid food for my son.
Earlier it seemed a huge task and I did a lot of reading online, checking
homemade recipes. But now it seems very easy, thanks to my mom’s easy
suggestions for homemade food.
I performed a simple Anna Prashana ceremony (first time semi-solid
feeding) at home. I have never seen a ceremony, so again I sought the internet
to find how to do the ceremony. Internet makes everything so easy. I found a
site detailing the steps in the ceremony. Found another website that lists the auspicious
days (muhurtams). Only important missing parts are relatives by which I mean
his grandparents; our parents! But again internet to rescue, as we have two
laptops; each was engaged to have a video conference with each of our parents.
So we did have our parents through the quick ceremony.
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| Next the money! |
So now-a-days, I am quite busy setting up Aarav’s meal and
feeding him. Luckily he is a good eater; he loves the homemade food I give him
and he is always eager to eat. Meal time is approximately 10-15mins max! But
now that he is growing up he is almost crawling all over the place. My laptop
is always the target! He pretty much spreads himself over the laptop, so much
so that I fear my laptop is going to be in 2 pieces soon, with the screen and
the keypad apart!
We haven’t gone out much these days, reason being the
weather; it’s getting cold here now, cold enough to put on the heater at night!
When we were new here my husband was looking for must-see places of Nashville
and since then he had this place called Loveless Café; apparently it is a hot
tourist place. We learnt that the biscuits here are famous. Now biscuits I don’t
mean the ones we eat in India. Somehow the systems in US are always different
than ours; we use kilometers and they use miles; we use liters and they use
gallons! What we eat as biscuits in India are called cookies here in the US.
And the biscuits I mentioned above are soft bread like food; almost similar to
our Pav bread, but a bit more dense and moist…you can say close to the texture
of a cake.
Anyways, we finally made it to this place. By the time we
reached it was 11am and it was so crowded with wait time as much as 2 hours if
you want to sit inside and eat; to pack and eat it out would still take 30
mins. So as its obvious we got our breakfast packed and sat down on the wooden
benches outside the café! Yes their biscuits are yummy; but its more of a southern
style place which obviously means all kinds of meaty breakfast. I am eggetarian
meaning I don’t eat meat but eggs I do. So luckily I most often find a menu
with garden omelet; or eating out in the US becomes really difficult for veg
options! It was the beginning of October and pumpkins were places around the café..and
quite large ones.
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| Aarav @Loveless Cafe, Nashville,TN |
My son was asleep by the time we finished our late breakfast…pretty
much lunch I’d say! And I really wanted to take a pic of him on the pumpkins
while he was awake. And we were about to leave when one of the café person saw him
and was admiring him; she said do you want to take a pic of him with the
pumpkins? I said yeah but he is sleeping already; to which she suggested I could
lay him on the pumpkin and we could still take a pic of him. I was too scared
to let him go; but he layed on the pumpkin so well that we got a few pics and
she said she’d post his pic on their instagram website. So when I got home in
the evening, I searched for their photo site and there it was - Aarav sleeping on a pumpkin! We had a fun
day!
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| My first attempt at Pita bread |
In recent times, I have been busy looking at videos to make
croissant, puff pastry, khari etc. I have picked up interest since I successfully
managed to make Pita bread (using Bhavna's recipe on youtube) – its Arabic bread similar to our roti/phulka except
that it has yeast in it. They puff up in the oven like pooris which can then be
used to stuff and make sandwich. My interest to make this bread was because of
this snack I ate “Stacy’s Pita chips”. They are so tasty, that I thought if I could
make the bread at home, then making chips out of it is a 10min job!
Making the flavored one today..waiting for the dough to rise
and I should have the Stacy chips by tea-time!
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