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Its just like the kids to sleep when they have to get up early! Everyday they almost get up before their time and today when I wanted to take the twins for their vaccine shots, they won’t budge. Finally we had to wake them and get them ready fast. Its almost been a long time since they went out in the day time and a see through glass. Peddu was jubilant all through the way, getting excited at the fast vehicles going with us. He was going Ba, Ca, Bi, meaning Bus, Car and Bike. He was even doing a dance step to express his joy. Met the doctor and Peddu won’t allow him to touch. Normally he doesn’t complain. Not sure why he was so cranky. Once done, we took them for the shots. We had a tough time holding them in place. And Peddu even wanted to hit the nurse. Poor darlings, on their way back, it took them a while to get back to their sunny selves. So as a treat, they didn’t got to school.

Coming to these yummy vadas, these get done in flat 10 mins, if you are in a hurry. Of cour…

Being the spice addicted, Mediterranean as well as Middle Eastern cuisine lover that I am, I could just simply not live my life further without buying Claudia Roden’s enchanting cookbook entitled “Arabesque: A Taste Of Morocco, Turkey and, Lebanon“. That’s why I ended up ordering that masterpiece from my favorite online retailer…

As Claudia Roden was bo…

I’d not known yam fritters. My senior from University treated me to this when I visited her a few years ago. I relished it. I bought some yam and called her just to find out how it was made. She told me to marinate the yam pieces and then dry them in the sun. I didn’t have that much time. So I baked them in my oven and then shalow fried them.

(One point to note is that shallow or deep fried yam …