The Antibland Chronicles

  • A trip to the North Carolina Mountains

    To get our fill of apples this fall, we made our way to Skytop Orchard in Flat Rock, NC for some apple picking. It had everything you’d imagine an apple orchard should – doughnuts, hayrides, cider, pumpkins, animals, ducks, cannon, playground, mountain views, fresh air. That is everything but the apples. Turns out, an early…

    Chika Gujarathi

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  • Glen Echo Park, MD

    Do you live in the DC Metro area? If so, have you been to Glen Echo Park? This past summer when we found ourselves in DC, some local friends with kids suggested that we meet at Glen Echo Park to socially distance while we caught up. According to their website: The Park is home to 13…

    Chika Gujarathi

  • Life Lately … Photo Essay

    Let me tell you the hardest challenge of being a blogger … It is really (really) difficult to get back in the swing of things after taking a blogging break. Especially, if like me you blog for the pleasure of it and not to make money. My moment of internet burn-out seems to be lasting…

    Chika Gujarathi

  • Tartelettes & Memories & Magic

    A long time ago, when Asha was little and we lived in Chicago, she and I would make a weekly pilgrimage to a place called Stanley’s at 1558 N. Elston Ave. Stanley’s was a fruits and vegetable market that sold the best organic produce at prices that were shocking. D and I had a standing…

    Chika Gujarathi

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  • Hello there!

    I am coming back to you after a long pause. I wish you all have been well? yes? Some of my absence had to do with just taking a break and enjoying the last days of summer vacation with my kids. But some has also stemmed from anxiety of living in this world which increasingly…

    Chika Gujarathi

  • The Spiralizer Resurrected {Zucchini pasta recipe}

    During the height of the food spiralizing craze a couple of years ago, we acquired this Briefton’s 7-blade spiralizer from Amazon just to eventually lose it somewhere in the back of a kitchen cabinet after a couple of uses. I was reminded of its existence this week however when our garden produced a rather good…

    Chika Gujarathi

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