Creating, collecting, and sharing thoughts and ideas. And learning along the way.
I want freedom for the full expression of my personality.
– Mahatma Gandhi
Terrific entrepreneurial endeavor that is changing villages and lives!
Johann Sebastian Bach – Orchestral Suite No. 3 in D major, BWV 1068
1. Overture
2.Air*
3.Gavotte I/II
4.Bourrée
5.Gigue
Instrumentation: Trumpet I/II/III, timpani, oboe I/II, violin I/II, viola, basso continuo.
*The Air is one of the most famous pieces of classical music. An arrangement of the piece by German violinist August Wilhelm (1845 – 1908) has come to be known as Air on the G String.
Exquisite! Chris, my dear friend from Australia currently vacationing in Bali is taking in these views, I am sure! (and therefore has no use to check this post on FB!)
Click on the link above to see the poem on the Daily Dish website. It is titled ‘Sourwood’ by R.T. Smith; first published in The Atlantic Monthly in May 1998.
I would be remiss to not have a blogpost devoted solely to all the sweet and savory snacks that my mother made during her brief visit with me over the holidays.
And so, the objective of this post is to highlight via pictures all the many goodies that were made– many of them typically made during the Christmas holidays in India: karjakais, kalkals, ladoos, chudva, murukus, fruitcakes, the list goes on. Back in the old country, you made them in large quantities so as to have them ready on hand to serve when guests came calling for a friendly holiday visit, or to serve to the carolers after they caroled outside your house, or to serve with tea and coffee during the holiday season. And then for a few weeks after Christmas and New Years’, you’d still have boxes and tins of these goodies neatly stored in your pantry that would tide you over at least the month of January.
Well, my mother came to visit for Christmas, and she did exactly this: she made all these yummy sweet and savory eats that we’re now nibbling on even two weeks later!
Here are some of the pictures in the slideshow below. If you’re familiar with these eats, you wouldn’t care to read the captions that go with each photo, but you’re not, you might find it interesting.
