Panfusine

The New year certainly got off to a great start for me, as I resurrected my 'dish - a - day' project that I had successfully completed in 2012. This time around, I decided on a bit more of structure around the 365 dishes, each day has a theme that will be repeated 12 times around through the year, and yes recipes for each one of the dishes I make, or provide links to the recipes from other sites anlong with my photographs. As prepared as I was. when it  came  to Mexican earlier this week, I blanked out. I had none of the ingredients needed for an Enchilada sauce from scratch and basically had to change plans at the 11th hour. SO the enchilada got postponed to another session while I got ready to try & replicate my favorite pick at the local healthy Mexican fast food. As with most dishes, the exact replication is simply not possible, but I must say the taste was close enough to be heartily approved by my foodie guinea pig 8 year old. The best part, I found myself makin...

September 5th.. every year.. The day is celebrated as Teacher's Day in India where I grew up and went to school. The day, we girls  (My Alma Mater, St. Anthony's Girls High School in Chembur, a suburb of Mumbai,  was an all girls convent run by the sisters of St. Joseph's Convent) would trip over ourselves to give our class teachers bouquets of flowers that we'd all bought from the lone florist 'Bhaiyya' who had a little set up of planks set up over the storm drain outside the compound walls of Saroj Hotel in Chembur Market. I vaguely remember he had 2 selections, a 5 rs. and a 10 Rs. A watchful eye ensured that the two rose buds in the bouquet were fresh and the there was a respectable amount of asters and chrysanthemums. And the cheaper goldenrods were kept to an optimum low!