The Oak Cafe, ARC

Feb 17th 2010 will be a special day for us. We became US citizens.  What has that to do with Oak cafe you might ask. Oak cafe is a part of the culinary school at American River College in Carmichael and they offer a fine dining full service restaurant with a prix fix menu featuring [...]

Fancy Food Show 2010

This past weekend we were at the Fancy Food show cruising our way through myriads of vendor booths and a sea of people. What struck us as soon as we passed through a few booths was how the vendors looked at your badge and decided in a split of a second whether to give you [...]

An Update

Hello Everyone, There are no good reasons for our laziness to blog. We enjoyed the warm summer with a few trips- Cascade Falls in Lake Tahoe, Camping@ Burney Falls, a weekend getaway to Mammoth Lake. Each of these trips were memorable and loads of fun.
I am not making lame promises of “trying to be more [...]

YEE HAW from Folsom

Garcinia mangostana

Fresh produce

After my last post on broccoli, I was quite sure it would take atleast a few weeks before I ventured to get more broccoli. Well I couldnt have been more wrong.
This morning Shankari & I went shopping for our veggies and fruits, the farmers market was busier than in the past weeks, with more stands [...]

Enriched broccoli

April submission for the jugalbandi click event, this is a broccoli floret taken with my home made macro. Carrot slices were intended to complete the salad, is the orange in the background.

While I was really happy with the rich color and contrast I got on my XTi and home made macro, I was not too [...]

Thopukarnam ; yoga for the brain

Praying to lord Ganesha the God of intellect and wisdom, can actually cure Alzheimer’s and make you brainier.

When praying to Ganesha, we were taught to pinch our earlobes with opposite hands and do sit ups. Recent research has shown that our age old Indian traditional ritual, actually stimulates the brain by activating pressure points.

This video [...]

live learn and pass it on

Saw this poster on someone’s wall, when we were house hunting for our friend K, and as we were in a hurry, I took a quick snap using my blackberry. Click on the image to enlarge.
Thanks to Mythree who took the pains to type this out
People ages 5 to 95 share what they’ve learned about [...]

Happy New Year ! Start the year with a laugh

Happy New Year friends, I found this on a jokes forum. Enjoy. My favorites 8, 12, and 14
Here is The Washington Post’s Mensa Invitational, which once again asked readers to take any word from the dictionary, alter it by adding, subtracting, or changing one letter, and supply a new definition. Here are the winners:
1. [...]

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