i promise..

i promise to visit AND write on my blog more often. there are so many things that i want to write about. i hope to write atleast once a week.
btw we saw 2 new hindi movies. Singh is King and Bachna a Haseeno.. both were absoultely stupid. a total waste of time.
we plan to go to india this year, so that should be fun. i visited so many cooking blogs in the past few months. i am really impressed by the amount of time people have spent in updating the blogs. if i ever get any recipe off those blogs and try them out, i hope to remember to mention the name of the original blogger. visited food network's website too. loads of great recipes that i hope to try out soon.

where have i been all these days????

i see that the last post was on 29th feb..today is 2nd sept...been very very busy..we moved to a new place and i totally love it over here. this residential area for some reason reminds me of Pune. i have made new friends and they have small kids so its gr8 for lil S. tried quite a few new dishes in past months..will post them soon.. lil S is quite a handful now. i hope to lose weight by running after him. i have takedn a vacation since memorial day 2007 and now i am in desperate need for a break. lil S cries in his car seat, but i can understand that...who likes being tied down in one place? lil S hates eating food...he removes it from his mouth using his fingers..infact he hates eating all kinds of food. he also ignores me..kind of learned that very early in his life frm his dad.
so all in all life is very good. i dont even realize when the day is over. i am always busy tired sleepy and covered in food.

been a looooooooooooong timeeeeeeeeeeeeee

its been a long long time since i have last written...so many things have happened since may07...so many GOOD things:) i have been abs busy since 6th dec. since that day my "sleep switch" has been switched off...have been operating on less that 6 hrs of sleep. but i LOVE EVERY MOMENT of it. never been so happy:) my entire world has changed and i cant seem to remember my life before this.
love it love it love it. and i cherish each sleepless moment that i spend...:)
dipti

Satya's parents arrived here last monday. Its been fun time since then. they got loads of stuff.
bakarwadis, rajgeera chikis, Santosh bakery che pattice, Kayani's cakes , kachoris, farsan etc are few of the things. it was abs great. today's special dish Sabudana vadas:) absolutely love them....
thankfully the weather has been really good. not cold and not hot either:)
will keep everyone posted on the stuff i eat:)
Amol is graduating this saturday. so we plan to go to eat chinese food..later
sunday is mother's day. dinner reservations are already done at a local Indian restaurant:)
dipti

been ages since i wrote anything:)
its been gorgeous in Chicago for the past 3 days:) feelslike a dream:) in-laws are going to be here for amol's graduation. planning a trip to the west coast:) i am soooooo lookging forward to this. something tells me that my Inlaws will pamper me more than ever this year:)
will complete the rest later....
dipti
btw satya made awesomlicious meatballs-pasta the other day. i ate till i puked!!!!!!!!!

right now...

things that i feel like eating.
its a cold 35 deg F outside. so ofcourse its comfort food for me.
tomato basil soup with hot croutons and cheeseMMmmmmm
either hindustan/santosh bakery che pattice. both taste very different and i like both.
sabudana vadas the crisp spicy mixture of sabudana and some groundnut-yogurt chutney..
french fries with little garlic/cheese and ketchup
chicken wings...i like the non breaded type but am defi partial to the crisp breaded spicy juicy tender chicken wing.. buffalo wild wings Mmmm...i love their spicy garlic variety
varan bhaat ghee and some lemon. I love it...
Spicy Penne Arabiata from our local italian place:)
but right now i have just an apple with me, so i guess i would have to satisfy my hunger with that:)
dipti

Barbecue Season is here!!

One thing I noticed after moving here is that everyone has a grill in their house. Doesn’t matter if the only open space for grilling is a small 3’ x 5’ patch or precariously overhanging piece of wooden deck, they absolutely have to have a grill. People living in apartment buildings in Chicago, either have balconies or wooden decks in the rear. People living in condos or single family homes have a wooden deck or a huge backyard.
The barbecue season officially starts from Memorial Day and goes on till Labor Day. But this is of course in Chicago. I am sure in sunny places like Texas, California or Arizona, barbecuing can be done all year around.
But then people in Chicago really look forward to this season. It means the end of winter. It means the onset of spring and finally summer, the start of the baseball season, it means having parties at your place with just hotdog and beer on the menu and the occasional chicken on beer can. It means having friends and neighbors over for fun. It’s more fun when there is a pool around though…so I am told. Dressing down for an occasion???...this is it. Its Satya’s dreams come trueJ
When we were staying in an apartment building in downtown Chicago, we never had any open space as such. But there we had barbecue grills on the common deck. The first barbecue we had consisted of just me, satya and amol. We had chips and dips, Polish sausages and Pepsi.
We got a barbecue grill recently. It’s a Weber grill and it’s huge. This latest acquisition has got Satya all excited about the possibilities of food it can cook. He has decided to cook at least once every weekend. So it ranges from tandoori chicken, chicken tikka, seekh kebabs, sausages, paneer tikka, veggies, burgers (both soy and meat), shrimp and fish. So last Saturday, he decided to make seekh kebabs. We got everything he needed. We got the meat, the spices, and extra accessories for the grill etc. But then in true Chicago fashion it rained and drenched our hopes. He decided not to light up the gas grill in the pouring rain and we ended up making the kebabs in the oven. But they turned out great too. :) Btw. Seekh kebabs taste great with hot nans and onion with little lime juice drizzled on it.
In the coming month we are going to buy few more grill accessories like the fajita platter (so I can cook some great veggies) and the chicken roaster (similar to beer can chicken apparatus but has place to hold veggies and the drip off chicken juices. The veggies cook in the chicken juices and hence taste way better than usual.) We also plan to buy a portable Weber coal Grill so that we could just pack some food and take our grill to a park or some place and cook ourselves…Picnic timeJ
I just hope that it starts getting warmer and stops raining.
As Satya cooks, I shall post his recipes online, with his permission of course.
Dipti