Monday, March 28, 2016

The Art of Pretending to be Fancy

Living away from home comes with several perks and nuisances. I’ve found that cooking falls under both those categories. Tanisha and I are lucky, because we enjoy food and cooking. However, that means we spend inordinate amounts of time in the kitchen preparing each meal, trying to make them as interesting as we can. It’s safe to say that the novelty is beginning to wear off, and that the prospect of cooking makes us consider stepping out for a cheap dosa or a plate of chaat…often. But our limited supply of money keeps us in the kitchen on most days, and we’ve plated many a masterpiece.

I shall now conceal from public view items like aromatic burnt khichidi and dry parsley-mint sandwiches, and share these with you instead.


Garlic mushroom salad


Baby potato garden salad


Dalia (broken wheat) upma


Shezuan noodles with mushroom and capcicum


Spaghetti in green pesto


Spaghetti in tomato sauce with mushrooms and cheese


Vegetable shezuan fried rice


Vegetable hakka noodles


Spaghetti with tofu and baby corn


Jeera rice


Sprouts


Yellow dal fry


Tabbouleh


Open-face vegetable pizza

Yummy, no? 
Yes.
Very.

Wired


Black-winged kite



Pied bushchat



Indian roller


Black drongos



Barn swallows

(Some) Birds of Goa


Jungle crow


Blue-tailed bee-eater


Black kite


White-throated kingfisher


Malabar lark


Wire-tailed swallow


Black kite


Brahminy kite


Whistling ducks


Western marsh harrier


Glossy ibis


Cattle egret