The splash tub - Photo Blog

One of the senior guys at my company was getting rid of his splash tub. Guess his kids outgrew it! We were glad to get it for free..

Original plan was to inaugurate the tub this week with the little one, her cousin and other buddies.. but we werent feeling upbeat earlier in the day and ended up sleeping off the whole afternoon.

But my daughter remembered the plan and insisted on the inauguration ! Even though it was almost sunset time, we filled half the tub with water and let her splash around for half an hour.

The formal inauguration of this mini pool will be next sunday.. you can definitely expect to see more pictures next week.

Sliding down :




Testing the water:




More testing :

Road to Happiness !

Was feeling bored saturday evening. Did not feel like going out to eat. . the queen and princess bee's werent busy either. So decided to go back to my nostalgic days.

Decided to make the sundar special Rava Dosai at home..

Came out nice and crispy.. just like paper..





For those who might by interested in the recipe :

Oil in a vessel
Low heat
add cumin, mustard seeds, red chili pieces (3 long dry red chillies in small pieces)
once the mustard starts to splatter, add asafoedita (hing) and curry leaves
Turn off the stove and immediately add rava (1 cup) mix in vessel
add rice flour (1 cup) and continue mixing (the whole thing is still dry at this stage)

Add a quarter glass of buttermilk to this and mix.

Then add two spoons of coke (diet coke) preferably the part with the fizz. (the credit for this idea goes to my buddy Durgaprasad - he came up with this concept of adding coke to get accelerated yeast in Charlottsville, Virginia in 1994. Unfortunately for him and fortunately for us, he did not patent this scheme! I used to add Fleishmans yeast in hot water, to do this part)

Add two glasses of water, required salt and mix thoroughly.
Wait for 15 minutes, heat the tava and start making the dosa..

Of course, you will have to do your own optimization with the salt and chili to get it just right for your taste.

Mine got a yummy from the little one.

I am back, baby !! (in the kitchen , that is).

Blog SPAM ?

These days I have started getting a lot of hits from people I do not know. Some of the comments in my blogs seem so sincere and nice..

For example:

Hi, happened to go through your blog. Cool site. Liked what you write. So I have bookmarked it.

Then you go to check out the profile of the person or the blog site of that person in the comment and you are in for a rude shock because either it takes you to a site that is selling :

a. Cat food
b. lawn mowing equipemnt or worse
c. X rated stuff

The amount of calories spent editing out these messages from the post is increasing.
I know at least two others (balaji and tom) who have similar problems.

So today I was pleasantly surprised to find a real blogger behind such a comment. I actually started laughing after reading his funny blogs. So, I have added his blog to the links. Hope this trend continues...

Happy sisters..

Today was Varalakshmi Nombu, a south indian traditional festival where women pray to god for the longevity of their husbands. The kids get to eat some "good eats" and get together for fun.

My wife's cousin visited us with her daughter.. The kids had a great time playing together..

Happy sisters, celebrating Varalakshmi Nombu...  

Here is a photo of the moms and kids..

I want a baby " ----------------"

As of the last weekend, my daughter has been repeating :

"I want a baby brrroootherr"!

Personally, I would like to find the person who taught this to my daughter and give him/her my two cents (more like throw the two cents at their face !)

Knowing that we are having a daughter, it is kind of late to change anything. For some reason, my daughter thinks we still have room for change.

The only good thing is that she is not saying "I dont want a baby sister". We have already named the unborn one, and so far she seems to be in affectionate terms at the mention of the baby.

Only thing that scares her is the baby's movements. She doesnt want to see mommy's tummy move around. We thought she would be amused, but she was scared !

I guess we have to wait and see how she takes to the new one in person !