Peacocks in Love!!

My experiments with acrylics and canvas.

I have found the peacock and its mesmerizing feathers always enticing.

Peacock motifs/prints/designs in temples, arts ,sculptures,temples, silk sarees even earrings...I love them all. So when I decided to give painting a shot ...it was just natural that I chose the bird with ethereal feathers... the process of painting this piece of artwork was so therapeutic,more so because I was painting two lovely peacocks perched on a branch  of a tree on the river bank.... The turquoise blues, emerald greens, shocking pink flowers and the floating lotus...The output gave me absolute mental bliss.....  

Boondhi - Unity in Diversity

This has been in the wish list for long ..and one fine evening when I felt , I was punishing myself too hard with my food choices....as if what the lock down was doing to me isn't enough ... I head to the kitchen counter with all that ferocity....
fry up the yellow drops.... add the hard ground nuts, crunchy curry leaves, crisply fried cashews ..and a few other nuts (trying to overcome the guilt of making the a snack that bathes in oil).... BINGO...all the ingredients with different colors and quality come together to make my taste buds react(such a rarity). .. and thus UNITY in DIVERSITY!!

Samosas!!

I had no luck winning over my husband, that nothing compliments a rainy evening like hot hot samosas... and tea. To add to my woes ... the ketchup and mayo jars as I anticipated weren't empty!!  SO in my view turned out to be a sinful Evening.

Coconut Cookies.....

One fine evening, after reading a long post on the wellness of coconut, was so tempted to gobble up a lot of coconut pieces, only to realise that fresh coconuts are a rarity in this part of the world, thats when the the "dessicated coconut" packet at the kitchen counter smiled at me ... But i dont know what on earth made me think of the unhealthiest snack that can be made out of them. Thanks to my daughters who keep ranting about my healthy food experiments , and for once asked me to make something that can be actually EATEN.... and yes!!!

There you go.... COCONUT COOKIES.
P.S. I still stuck to brown sugar and whole wheat flour, the secret that my kids did not know....

Auguberine Egg Rings...

Spinach Dal curry , Parboiled Rice and Auguberine Egg Rings...that added a lot of zing to the menu and character to our lunch time!! 

Pooris in Love ...

Sanity through Food...

Cooking has been the only solace during these testing times, trying different receipes all the time trying to strike a balance between health and taste,what with my obsession to believe that anything that has Maida, sugar and loads of oil deserves to go down the drain and not inside the stomach.

So, with limited choices available, I have been experimenting a great deal...
Recording some of my experiments that turned out be decent....lets call them the QUARINTINE  FOOD ALBUM.... Lets start with SPINACH PARATA with MINT RAITA...