100 Happy Days: Day 66 Lunch Home

Happiness is having delicious food at humble places.

Was out on an errand the whole morning.  It was almost 3pm before I could think of having lunch. I walked through a dirt road thinking about what I could eat. Should I enter a pizzeria or should I enter  a Subway, a south Indian restaurant or maybe Chinese? I had seen these eateries earlier from an auto-rickshaw when I had passed through this route and had made a mental note of it.

After finishing my errand, I started to walk in that direction when I sighted a humble Lunch home. I peeped in and saw few people seated on wooden benches having meal of Indian platter. The fragrance of food was over powering. I could not stop myself from walking in and having an ordinary food of just peas potatoes and Indian roti.

It tasted yummicious, I didn’t care about hygiene issues for once.

I am glad I didn’t.

So here I am, with the project of ‘100 Happy Days’I am posting pictures each day here on my blog then sharing the link on my page on FB too. You can enjoy my work either here or on my page at FB at Pushee’s World

100 Happy Days: Day 65 Discussing a New Product

Happiness is spending a Sunday afternoon with foodie friends.

The beauty of spending an afternoon with foodie friends is that you not only talk about food and the recipes but you also learn about the new product in the market and how best to make use of it.

Met some foodie friends at a cook studio and over the cup of coffee, we sat discussing the product which is soon to be launched in Mumbai. During the interaction, we discovered that the product is more useful than what we normally thought. The discussion progressed from latest food trends, to the sharing of the pictures at Instagram.

Quite an insightful afternoon.

So here I am, with the project of ‘100 Happy Days’I am posting pictures each day here on my blog then sharing the link on my page on FB too. You can enjoy my work either here or on my page at FB at Pushee’s World

100 Happy Days: Day 64 Women’s Day

Happiness is celebrating Women’s day in a special way.

Wonderful day it was to celebrate the women’s day. Was invited by Nature Basket for food demonstration of chicken recipes by Chef Vicky Ratnani. It was interesting afternoon spent watching the chef churn out different chicken recipes and more fascinating was to be surrounded by more than 100 women, all with common interest for cooking.

Women were in a pleasant mood; they had opinions on his every tip and the questions that they asked during the session were just to test the chef’s patience. (I am sure they knew all the answers)

The event was super fun.

So here I am, with the project of ‘100 Happy Days’I am posting pictures each day here on my blog then sharing the link on my page on FB too. You can enjoy my work either here or on my page at FB at Pushee’s World

100 Happy Days: Day 63 Getting Published

Happiness is reading your own published work in a magazine.

Few weeks ago I was invited for a brunch to Palate culinary studio. I was very impressed with the interior design of the studio. There were decorative plated on walls, beautiful food quotes on kitchen cabinets and all the interesting kitchen gadgets. I secretly hoped that maybe I could start one of my own too. Well. That was just wishful thinking, but I went back to the studio to interview the chef who owned this pretty place.

She is Rakhee Vaswani. I interviewed her and send it across to a Beyond Sindh magazine that is published from Hongkong. Today when I received the complimentary copy of my published work, I was immensely pleased. For those who would be interested to read my interview could hop on to my food blog at PapadChai.

So here I am, with the project of ‘100 Happy Days’I am posting pictures each day here on my blog then sharing the link on my page on FB too. You can enjoy my work either here or on my page at FB at Pushee’s World

100 Happy Days: Day 62 Home Science Class

Happiness is attending a home science class of special children.

Ask any food blogger for a recipe of dhal and rice and he may look at you with a raised eyebrow. This meal is the simplest and the most basic dish to make. But then, with special children, it is not so simple; it has to be taught, like many other things.

So today, I sat in a home-science class and closely observed eight special children while they happily stood in the kitchen learning the technique of making dhal and rice. They learnt to distinguish different spices by touch, color, smell and taste, they learnt about the value of hygiene during cooking, they learnt about quantity and quality of the food used during kitchen.

When the dish was ready for taste, there was a smile on every face in the room.

So here I am, with the project of ‘100 Happy Days’I am posting pictures each day here on my blog then sharing the link on my page on FB too. You can enjoy my work either here or on my page at FB at Pushee’s World