After a long sabbatical...

It has been a long time, since I have been blogging. I had thought that settling down in Blore would be fairly easy and a quick thing - what with all the estate agents available for hunting a place and most of the items to be bought would be available in more than 10 different stores located 100 meters from each other. Well, it was an experience, which I hope I would not have to face ever again. Firstly to start with Blore, I am thoroughly disappointed to see the infrastructure of this city! It is in a very pathetic shape, and this is supposedly the Indian Silicon valley. Blore needs to change dramatically before things go out of control. The government, the IT biggies and perhaps even some of us, should really do some thing in this regard. The traffic is unmanageable, most of the people on the road have no value for their own life, nor do they value others lives! In our own office parking lot, people drive their vehicles at the speed of 50kmph, whereas there are huge hoardings in the parking lot showing the speed limit as 15kmph. And then there are those security and traffic policemen standing there "trying" to regulate the traffic! I must say that at least the first few months have been thoroughly disappointing in Blore in terms of the traffic and infrastructure. But, then on the positive side, I am now close to my family! Moreover, the feeling of being in India, amongst your people (although you crib and curse every other minute!) is really nice. All in all I have had a good time so far, minus the settling down period. Even with all the infrastructure and other problems, there is a sense of belonging in India. It feels nice to be here amongst your own people :-)

Having said that, I am now back to my blogging with a bang! The vegetables in Bangalore taste much better than Finland :) And there is such a wide range of sabzees and dishes that I can try out! Hopefully I will be able to post recipes on a regular basis from now on.....

So, hopefully from now on I will be able to post recipes regularly on my blog. One good thing about Bangalore is the food - the palak dosa at ShivSagar's, the south indian lunch buffet at SouthIndies, the sizzlers at IndiJoe's, the Kerala cuisine at Malgudi and the list continues....it has been a true gourmand affair for me!