thaumaturgist

So tonight I had to scrounge my refrigerator for possible dinner items. You know it is the end of the week and the pantry does lurk towards emptiness, not that I have a pantry and I would love to but that topic would take on an entire post of it's own, I suppose. Anyway, so I found tomatoes, one eggplant, some mushrooms, potatoes and onions. Yes that is vegan and I had to use these before they met their end through rotting. So I made and eggplant and potato curry-sorta-thing and some wild mushroom pilaf (thanks to anjum anand's book I own) Ingredients (Eggplant Curry): 1. One eggplants cubed(small) 2. One large potato cubed(small) 3. One medium onion finely chopped 4. One large clove of garlic chopped 5 Onion seeds 1 tsp 6. 1 tsp cumin pwd, 2 tsp coriander pwd and half teaspoon turmeric pwd 7. One large tomato chopped In 2 tbsps of cooking oil temper the onion seeds. Then fry the onions till golden brown and then add garlic. Add the seasonings, tomatoes and cook till oil oozes ...

I have been thinking of topics to write about for a long while, but nothing is coming to me. I am groping for words to keep myself afloat in the blog world! My English skills have been going from bad to worse mostly because I haven't read many good books lately, also the use of the language has been dwindling. I am seriously at a loss for words lately, I happened to use 'precisement' in stead of 'precision' with a friend which was sadly shameful! But as it seems that precisement is actually french for precisely, with accents of course. Whatever! The fact of the matter is I am quite cross with myself for not doing anything about it. So, on that note I want to start a discussion about randomness. You must have heard people say that life is a grand plan of the master above. I do not agree. There is absolutely nothing orchestrated about life, in a word it is the most random thing there is. We very often try to plan and manipulate situations and actions but most of us fa...

Back after 6 weeks or so I suppose.. hmmm... well what can one say-- use your imagination? Been very busy shifting houses (with just the idea of it- did not do the real work); made efforts to collect my Masters degree but all in vain; really did try my hand at decorating new 'in-law' house, even got to choose the drapes (isn't that exactly why one should move to a new unfurnished house?); ate all the food I missed for so long, made mom spend hours in the kitchen! Well a lot happened really- A broke his toe (don't ask me how, I still don't get it), met some friends after a long time, experienced Delhi heat after ages, celebrated our 2nd anniversary at Someplace Else (just us two, peanuts and beer) and watched movies. Oh! Indian movie theatres are sooooo goood. Why don't they make them like that here? Anyway, enough of what I did. It's 38 degrees here in Dresden and they do not believe in air-conditioning, so they pick up any thing to fan themselves with. I l...