Puja season is around the corner and I can already feel the excitement in the air. I feel it when I go out in the mornings and the air is crisp. I can smell the dew on the grass and see the leaves changing color. Obviously these sensory cues would be different if I had…
Shooji (sooji), can go by a few different names. Haloowa (halwa) and Shira are a couple of others. What it is, essentially, is the Indian equivalent of Cream of Wheat. In Indian culture, this is a dessert and is often times seen made for pujas (religious ceremonies). We eat it a lot for breakfast. It…
So, I just finished a half hour workout video. Well, actually I finished a little while ago. I let myself feel like I was going to die for a few minutes, drank a lot of water, and cooled off. And now I actually feel pretty good. It’s holiday season and not only do we all…
It would start with me sitting on the kitchen counter. Baba got out a large steel pan and added the dry ingredients. I distinctly remember the box of Carnation dry milk and how it smelled and how it felt like very fine sand. This was how we started our day making golab jamun, a dessert…