Woah, cant believe that this year is already 3 months done. Also, looking at the conditions outside, Covid cases are on the rise again and it will be a while before vaccine comes for us, 2021 will be a repeat of 2020 only.
This year started with us going for a long walk outside Bangalore, organized by a group called Breathing green. This 3-4 hr long walk with lot of chit chat and a good greenery alongside was a welcome change.
A lot has happened in three months. Lets start with headlines
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Marriage of Saumya & Saurabh
On Jan 14, Saumya and Saurabh got married at Royal Orchid Bangalore. 13th Jan was Sagan ceremony. 12th was mehendi with awesome chole bhature made by Jiju. On 10th, we hosted everyone at our place with an almost home cooked menu - Fried rice, Chinese veg stir fry, coconut dal and quinoa salad.
After the marriage, we got full into taking care of Puchka.
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Puchka
- Got her second dose of vaccination.
- Got her neutered. Neutering involves an surgery followed by a week of Puchka wearing a cone so that she does not lick the stitches. Post a week, there is an inspection by vet followed by couple of days when cone can be removed. It is pretty irritating for cat and ours was no different.
- Once the cone was removed, it was life as usual. She has gone bigger in size and maintains a very healthy activity schedule. 24x7 entertainer, more entertaining a netflix subscription. A total joy when she comes on her own and sits next to you, on you or licks you.
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Cooking
Last 3 months have been very busy with cooking. First, in Jan, I joined this Team Sharan's 30 day Salad/Smoothies/Soups program where in they shared one recipe a day. Then in March, Kanishka & I signed up for a detox program for a week where we have smoothie in breakfast, proper lunch and salad+soup in dinner.
As part of this, we have tried many salad/soup/smoothie recipes. This is just what I recall
French onion Soup with Cous cous salad. French onion soup recipe is what we saw on youtube. It looked yummy and simple so we decided to make it.
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| Three bean salad with celery |
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| Thai red curry - all homemade and it was yumm! |
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| Rainbow salad |
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| Grilled tofu salad |
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| Bombay bhel |
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| Beet carrot salad |
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| Pumpkin soup |
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| Dragon fruit smoothie |
But not all cooking has been healthy. We mastered the art of making christmas cake by making it again for our anniversary
And we also made homemade Gulab jamun -
Experiments are also going on. We made baba ganoush, rajma hummus, and kababs, baked baby potatoes.
Other items without pics are Drumstick shorba, clear soup, homemade vegetable broth
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Outside of Puchka and cooking, other interesting things done were -
- Cubbon Park walk with Unhurried and Parul and friends: Long 4 hr walk about the history of Cubbon park and what has survived since ages. Highly recommended.
- Anniversary celebration at Oota, Whitefield. One of the very few times when we have stepped out.
- Aarti's home buying celebration at Whisk & Thyme.
- Added a vertical garden unit to our balcony
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Movies & TV
- Rewatched Americans Season 3-6. For some reason, I am drawn to the character of Matthew Rhys and felt the urge to watch Americans again. Finshed some 50 hrs of TV in a week. Pretty brutal.
- Watchmen
4/5
Very stylish, very relevant. Loved all of its twists and everything.
- Big little lies
one episode left in season 1.
4/5 so far.
- Kim's convenience is still going on
3/5 - Good comedy drama.
- Rewatched Ocean's 11 & Ocean' 12
Timepass series 3/5 & 2/5.
- Wonder woman 1984
2/5
Do not watch, unless you just want to watch it due to pandemic.
Anatomy of a murder
4/5
Classic legal film.
Carol
3.5/5
Good film about relationships
Heat - 3/5
Rewatched it after about a decade. It was decent.
7500
2/5
Again do not watch, unless you are in pandemic.
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Books
- Almost done with the color of magic by Terry Pratchett
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