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Posted by Vinda Dravid | Posted on 26-04-2012

Schnelltaste

Category : Desserts, Fruit desserts

Let’s play a little game. You have to guess what this post is about. It is a recipe ofcourse, an attempt to make an old Austrian dessert in under 15 minutes using a favourtie Indian tea-time snack.

I’ll give you some clues;

So, was ist da in der glass?

Ja, es ist ein ApfelStrudel!

Forgive me, but I have been around a lot of things German-from listening to the songs of “The Sound of Music” and attempting to play a scratchy version on my violin to learning German. I was having  tea whilst humming this song, that the idea struck me:  Read more...>>

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Posted by Vinda Dravid | Posted on 25-04-2012

Tease before Pleasure

Category : Appetizers, Exotic, Featured, Low calorie

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Everyone loves a tease! That excruciating period of restlessness, to elevate the longing and desire, to enhance the explosion of pleasure in the offing. Recall the slice advert with Katrina Khaif lusting after luscious saffron tinted mangoes, with  her plump scarlet lips longing for the viscous sweet succulence. Quite the toe-curling stuff!

Its the season of  tantalizing anticipation as we eagerly wait drenched in sweat for the mangoes to ripen and try to find ways to distract our taste buds with their immature forms. One needs no way nor reason to enjoy them, but the adolescent green ones do need a certain amount of tinkering. Pickles, moramba, ampanna, curries, salads are some of the most common way to use the tart acidity of raw mangoes.  Read more...>>

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Posted by Vinda Dravid | Posted on 14-04-2012

Titanic: A Centenary

Category : Appetizers, Planned Menus, Salads

Today, 14th April 2012 is the centenary of the sinking of the most famous and controversial ships of all time – the RMS Titanic. It was called the “Ship of Dreams” –  the most ambitious ship ever constructed, a display of unsurpassed progress and opulence. Her passenger accommodation was said to be “of unrivalled extent and magnificence”; the First Class accommodation included the most expensive seagoing real estate ever, with promenade suites costing $4,350 ($104,760 at current day prices) for a one way passage. The Third Class or Steerage, was unusually comfortable by contemporary standards and was supplied with plentiful quantities of good food, providing its passengers with better conditions than many of them had experienced at home.  Read more...>>

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Posted by Vinda Dravid | Posted on 04-03-2012

Fancy A Cuppa?

Category : Articles, Blogger Meets & Events, Sherbets and drinks

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I am undoubtedly a tea person. Although, going by the current youth trends, coffee outshines tea by a long margin. Suddenly, it has become “cool” to be a coffee enthusiast or to be seemingly desperate for a cup of coffee to jerk you to life. Tea is more often than not, sidelined as some milky sugary concoction that those having lived through abundant summers go “Ah” over. I personally, dislike both milk and sugar in most of my beverages and ironically without them, coffee becomes too strong for my taste. To put it simply, coffee isn’t my cup of tea.  Read more...>>

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Posted by Vinda Dravid | Posted on 05-02-2012

Out of Hibernation Atlast

Category : Desserts

Now this is a bit awkward. You never know exactly what your opening lines should be when you meet someone after a longish bit of time,or in this case, blog after 5 months.

Well, let’s just say studying engineering sort of ruins your social life and once the flow breaks, it becomes difficult to find the enthusiasm. So what have I been upto in the last 5 months of apparent hibernation? It all starts with the most dreaded time period of a college semester where you are required to submit all your term work including assignments, projects and journals, duly signed and sanctioned and give appropriate excuses for your highly irregular attendance in the semester gone by. This is when we wipe out millions of trees for want of papers for copying down useless assignments and journals, gallons of ink and waste hundreds of man hours that can be used for betterment of mankind.  Read more...>>

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Posted by Vinda Dravid | Posted on 19-08-2011

Hand in the Cookie Jar

Category : Cookies, Desserts

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I was writing my Geotechnical Engineering assignment – “Explain the formation of soil  and soil types”, a two page answer, written pointwise and extending upto 25 points for which I foolishly chose to use roman numerals. Imagine writing the points till (XXV).  I needed a diversion, an excuse for a quick getaway. And inspiration struck! Necessity is the mother of all invention!  Read more...>>

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Posted by Vinda Dravid | Posted on 17-08-2011

Flavours First – Dinner with Chef Vikas Khanna

Category : Blogger Meets & Events

I had been hearing about Vikas Khanna  a lot in the last one month, as if the city was suddenly abuzz with news about him in media and especially social media like Twitter. So who is he?

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Posted by Vinda Dravid | Posted on 13-08-2011

Meeting the “M” from Masterchef – Matt Preston

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Some of the photographs are borrowed from food bloggers, Harini Prakash of the blog  Tongue Ticklers and Pranav Kacholia of foodigeek.blogspot.com 

Once again, the 9 pm IST slot makes self-confessed foodies, amateur chefs or just about anyone who appreciates food leave all their work, play and rest to sit in front of the television and lose themselves into another world of food fantasy and toe-curling displays of beautiful looking dishes, made by food enthusiasts from another country far south and judged by a trio of charming and now-familiar food personalities. Masterchef Australia has gripped Indian hearts and minds in an unprecedented way, far more than any other country has, except ofcourse, Australia itself! Season three of Masterchef has already started airing in India, the only country to have it telecasted outside Australia so soon, even when the last episode was filmed only a week ago!  Read more...>>

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Posted by Vinda Dravid | Posted on 24-07-2011

Sugar Memories

Category : Desserts, Foodie Gifts

Birthdays. Some of them used to be occasions of such joy in our childhood, because of the gifts ofcourse and the chaos out of all the children with lopsided paper hats, running helter-skelter and creating a phenomenal mess, jumping around with colourful streamers entangled with their limbs, trying to pop balloons and dancing till we got red in the face and fell onto various pieces of furniture, exhausted. On the other hand one also had those birthday parties where all the relatives were invited home and you blew out the candles like a saint without anything more eventful happening thereafter. No smearing the cake on the face or prancing around. Mild and subdued.  Read more...>>

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Posted by Vinda Dravid | Posted on 20-07-2011

High On Himalayas

Category : Appetizers, Exotic, Low calorie, Sherbets and drinks, Travel

This is an account of my recent trip to Himachal Pradesh. If you do not wish to read the entire travelogue carefully, I urge you to atleast read day three at kalpa (The paragraph after Shontu the Dog’s photograph). That day will forever be etched into my memory and I stongly wish to share that experience with you.


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