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They Speak For Themselves

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This past Fall, I was inspired to walk around the WSU campus and take in the sights around the area known as Midtown in the city of Detroit.  Being new to the place, I was not only eager to learn my way around campus which blended into the city streets, but to also explore the area around, especially since I saw all around me many beautiful old buildings and structures.

A cold wintry day like this is a perfect day to unveil these photos.  They are a reminder of blue skies and fair and mild weather that will surely come again!  Many are campus buildings, others are area buildings, all within a few blocks.

A slideshow of the many pictures, for your viewing pleasure.  Some of them were taken with my trusty Nikon Coolpix camera, but many others were taken with my erstwhile camera-phone.  In the words of Julia Morgan, the pioneer American architect, “Architechture is a visual art, and the buildings speak for themselves.”

 

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The New Macho

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Here’s to embracing the “new macho” and hailing the fact that I have been privileged to be privy to it for a long time now… thanks to the man I call husband– who does everything from getting the kids up and ready for school to folding the laundry. 🙂

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Rolls-Royce Apparition concept messes with our heads — Autoblog

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Dream away!

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Hyderabadi Biryani: This Is How You Do It (Right)!

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So, if you know one interesting fact about me, I hope it might have something to do with Hyderabadi Biryani, or in particular, the fact that I can make it.  From scratch. The kind that willl leave you stunned at the fact that you didn’t know how impossibly amazing that dish could be.  And leave you talking about it forever. 🙂

Well, that’s the kind I make.  For all special occasions like birthdays, anniversaries, holidays, etc. I obvioulsy made it this past Christmas.

So, this is a step-by-step slideshow of the very many steps of this many-layered dish.  You’ll have to get your own recipe, or guesstimate the measures from the pictures here, but the sequence is critical to success.  This is a huge degchi (pot) that holds about 20 lbs.  The pictures are all captioned so you can see what’s what.

The best part, however, is serving it up with love for the ones you love!  Oh, and the papads/appalams, pudina chutney and the boondi raita are the consummate accompaniments to the dish.

Bon Appetit! Or, like we say around here:  Yeh Hui Na Baat!