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Sugary Rush: Chapter 2 BANANANANA!!!

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Welcome to my virtual kitchen you lovely people!!! I know how you people are eagerly waiting for 7th, when paycheck will get credited in everyone's account. Pat your back for surviving 'end of the month crisis' like a pro. Understanding everyone's situation, I promise today's recipe will not burn a hole in anyone's pocket. It will most probably bring a smile in these 'mcdonalds econo meal seems as expensive as matsutake mushrooms days' and will add ' chaar chaand ' to your tea/ coffee drinking experience. (Not so Important Information: Matsutake mushrooms cost $1000 per kg i.e Rs 65000 per kg) As you people already know, my thesis submissions are next week and my parents are more concerned than me. So whenever they spot me, lost in thoughts of parallel world where I manage to save Ned Stark before he is beheaded, they start chanting this word ' Bhawna, FOCUS! FOCUS! FOCUS! With the continuous chanting, this thought striked me, how we

Break-in-fast: Chapter 1 WHEN CHEELA MET CHUTNEY!!!!

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Welcome  to my virtual kitchen you lovely people!!! Hi! So we are here again. New recipe, new theory and same journey. How's millennial life treating you? Paycheck got credited in everyone's account. Everyone is smiling from ear to ear and life is good. Isn't it? And we are busy spoiling ourselves with fine dining, exotic wine and champagnes. Ain't we? Before I move to today's survival recipe, which will be a glimpse into two diverse food culture of two diverse communities, I am sure by now you people know how much I love to watch and observe people (IN A CREEPY WAY. NOT.) and come up with different theories. So what are we talking today? Theory of Diversity Diversity. I was in 11th standard. It was a usual lunch break with my usual tiffin box full of parantha and pickle and my usual  ' NOT AGAIN' expressions. I tilted my head a little in left and spotted some one with same expressions, but entirely different tiffin box, full of idlis , sambhar a

Sugary Rush: Chapter 1 LET'S GO BANANAS!!!

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Welcome to my virtual kitchen you lovely people!!! So how's millennial life treating you? I hope it is as lively and colorful as the festival of Holi we just celebrated. I was brainstorming for days and nights and nights and days about what should be my first food post on my blog, and finally arrived to this recipe! Yes we will move to the recipe but first some gupshup . What is food without a little conversation. RIGHT. So today I want to share this theory. The funny thing is how I started this post with the mention of an Indian festival while recipe I will be sharing is a famous Chinese cuisine. Theory of Cultural Exchanges We all belong to different communities which are governed by certain beliefs, practices and traditions. There are certain practices which we may not believe into, certain traditions we want to explore more, some we end up questioning and some we enjoy practicing. I would like to share one such cultural practice which has been an integral part of m