Mr seems to get a little bit uncomfortable when much ado is made about him. This is hard for me, because he is one of my favorite people to make much ado over. Especially at times of year like this (his birthday was on Thursday), I grapple with my urges to try and lasso the [...]
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Making a Fuss
29 January 2012Getting Recipes Written Down
18 January 2012One day, not too long ago, I got to spend the morning and afternoon with my Baba, making pounchki. She hadn’t made them in a number of years, but when I asked if we could make some, she was only too happy to oblige. Food can ingrain some very detailed memories, and pounchki do that [...]
Listen to Your Mum
6 December 2011“Be careful not to overfill them. When they overflow you’ll lose almost all of the filling.“ She warned, across the city, through the phone line. I wrote it down at the bottom of the recipe; do not overfill. It’s just that after the whisking, the rolling, cookie cutting and pressing I stood with a great big [...]
