Wednesday 25 September 2013

Too much TV


From the time Lil Boy was concieved , my MIL had dreams of raising him up .
Sounds good ? Well, not to me .

Till then I lived in another town and we would visit each other in say every two weeks. It worked very well and we respected each other .

But after I was pregnant , she wanted to be around more and would bring the SIL and her kid along to our small apartment for weeks together. I wanted my space and would wait for them to return to their homes.

The SIL is not employed and was very dependent on MIL. She expected that since I was working I would be more dependent. But I was and is fiercely independent. It continues to even now.. Lil P is around 4 years.. But we hardly have time just for ourselves coz MIL always wants to be around.

But that was not why I started this post. Well, I am happy when my mom is around. Reason being... she engages Lil P so well. She keeps him busy... makes him run around and he is hungry.. and sleepy by bedtime.
With MIL, she always wants to sleep whatever be the time of the day. So she tells P that  he is a sick boy  (he is not) and shouldnt run around much.. she puts on the TV and makes him sit there for hours.

I have been giving hints coz I do not want to appear rude.. but now its getting on my skin.

We decided to leave him at his playschool till evening... and pick him up on the way from work. So far its working good.




Thursday 11 July 2013

The brownie trail

I am back to the baking world after a long hiatus.

The only regret I have - I had not documented any of the recipes I used earlier.

Those days , I used a round oven , which worked so wonderfully well, and referred to a few blogs and cookbooks.

Now that there are so many cookbooks and so many blogs that I follow , I have no clue about  the recipes I used earlier.

The cooking range arrive a couple of months ago and my baking experiments have started.

There lies the problem, I used to bake very good tasty stuff earlier but the second innings have not been took good.
The others like it , but I find faults with it. For few days now I have been trying to bake a brownie that I have always dreamt of. The brownie turns out to be good .. but not perfect... not the way I want it. I tried the cocoa brownie from a blog , its a great recipe.. very easy and quick. It works great for the fact that I can bake it when the boy is watching a tom and jerry episode. Just have to mix the things and bake. It tastes good too.. but I miss something in it. Or maybe I am baking it too much.




Scribble ... Delete... Backspace.. Back to Draft

A zillion thoughts keep running back and forth , cant wait to put them in words.

However, a few mins after I jot them down... I re-read and move them to draft. Sometimes they get deleted.

I have moved all my previous posts to drafts and am starting afresh. I guess I will use this blog more to keep track of the recipes...