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A Mad Tea Party
If you have been seeing Batata Vadas appear in some of the food blogs you read and wondering what is up with that, here is what is at the root of it all - old fashioned indulgence. A year ago, while discussing this and that on this blog, I and my readers decided a party [...]
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A Mad Tea Party
Happy Independence Day, people!
We are combining it with Raksha Bandhan celebrations here today. Raksha Bandha is actually tomorrow but there’s a solar eclipse, which is considered inauspicious…
Yes, I have a party on my mind - a batata vada party! Have you deep fried yet? Hope to see you at the party!
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A Mad Tea Party
Last year, on the first blogversary of A Mad Tea Party, I got rambling on the matter of food and diet. As I had wished, it did get a life of its own and we did stray into other things…with food as a point of beginning. There was fun and trickery, food and drink, and [...]
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A Mad Tea Party
Please don’t mention Caronda* for some time…it is in every jar I had spare! There is no room for any more pickles or preserves…As I mentioned last time, I made some caronda chutney a week ago, to use up part of my Dad’d harvest from a bush I planted about ten years ago in the [...]
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A Mad Tea Party
I think I have hibernated long enough. And it is not even the season. ‘Tis the season to be out and enjoy the rains - which, after it having rained most of May and all of June, have disappeared since we officially entered the monsoon season. That’s the weather update for you.
A couple of weeks [...]
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A Mad Tea Party
Every chance I get, I use. After locating my ride at Vadodara the first question I put to him was where I could get some good ’snacky’ Gujju breakfast! He knew just the place. We went to Payal Farsan Mart from where I got packed a bite of quite a few things [...]
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A Mad Tea Party
Modern Western medicine has changed our lives with its clinical approach to diagnosis and treatment of disease. Along the way it became the mainstream approach with older systems getting the tag of alternative medicine. Of course, there are reasons to encourage and protect this mindset.
Practitioners of Western medicine, while finally admitting to the efficacy [...]
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A Mad Tea Party
Most of us get addicted to reading blogs before we get one of our own. I wandered into the food blog world one fine day looking for some variety in my daily cooking. Nothing fancy, just everyday cooking that would show new ways with the same old ingredients.
Here are a few that have [...]
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A Mad Tea Party
A big chunk of my readers live outside India. And all of them will appreciate how I have tried not to rub salt on their mangoes wounds this year. There has been no talk of mangoes, whatsoever, on this blog so far this year; no debate on which mango is the King, [...]
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A Mad Tea Party
Usually, I love my time in the kitchen. More often than not, TH stays out, and is very appreciative of the food I put on the table (even when it is store-bought bread on days such as today when I am too rushed for even a 30-minute meal). But there are (many) days when I [...]
