April 2021
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Books and Dreams
A note to readers – Here, I originally intended to simply tell you about two books: David Sedaris’ Me Talk Pretty One Day, and Jhumpa Lahiri’s In Other Words. They are both really good, entertaining, yet antipodes for personal accounts on learning a foreign language which is something I have tried to do for many…
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White Chocolate Banana Muffins
I am curious – How do you go about picking recipes? Especially baking recipes which have little wiggle room for intuitive cooks? It used to be that I was willing to give any recipe a try if the blogger’s pictures and descriptions looked tempting enough. However, as you can imagine, the success rate of these…
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The Making of a Bad Day
Bad days don’t announce themselves usually but wouldn’t it be wonderful if they did? I don’t even need to know the specifics really; I am quite happy dealing with the mystery of it all. I just need to know that it is going to be a bad one so that I can drink a few…
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Dreaming of Utah
When it comes to traveling I am all about destinations with bustling city centers that allow for lots of walking, eating, and people watching. If it wasn’t for Devang, I probably would have never known the magic of exploring National Parks. I am not sure why, but today I am reminiscing about our trip to…
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St. Vincent & the Grenadines
I just learned that yesterday on Thursday April 8, 2021, the La Soufrière volcano has erupted in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines in Southern Caribbean. Devang and I visited this beautiful island in January of 2019. It was our last international trip before the pandemic. From what I can find in the news so far,…
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In the Kitchen: Mango Pops
I am not sure if there is another group of people who are as obsessed with mangoes as me and my fellow Indians. And for good reason because there is little in this world that compares to the taste of a perfectly ripe mango. (Side note: American supermarkets usually don’t carry mangoes grown in India.…
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