Between siblings

Everytime my sister calls,we discuss almost everything under the earth that happened the last 3 days (we speak atleast twice a week)and a lot of the conversation revolves around our respective culinary experiments,precedence to baking.
It so happens that neither of us inherited my mom's skills when it comes to baking,Id rather say we like to get away from the banal recipes and sneak in our own ingredients even though they are uncalled for...like adding in chocolate chips into a banana walnut cake or coffee into all cookies!unlike mom who is a conventionalist. No doubt our cakes and other bakes arent worth praises. Nevertheless,we enjoy our experiments and always manage to surprise our hubbies ;-)

Musings

The little things we take for granted are the ones we miss a lot down the line.Our friendly neighbourhood grocers aka Balaji provisions/Shetty angadi/Kaka angadi have that single item you forgot for that particular recipe saving a long trip to the chain of food marts.I miss being a part of Bangalore which still boasts of upteen number of bakers , yelling vegetable vendors and even the little florists who manage to make a very very decent bouquet for any desired price......sigh,will they all be there 5 years down the line?

Ps:All this started after I forgot buying tea from the Indian stores and realised Id have to wait for a week to drink tea again :-(