tea time

Lemon Bars

This entire facelift of Joie De Vivre, and its attached trials and tribulations, have been significantly overwhelming. It seems like a whole new ballgame, a whole new language, a whole different – rather parallel – universe. It has been a humbling experience, with pressure mounting with very click. To a naked eye, the hours of work that shows in terms of absolute visual progress is incredibly underrated and impossible to comprehend. But yet, I am happy that the hours that have gone into it are now beginning to show their teeth.

On returning from The Great Grover Stomp, the realisation hit me that I had been separated from my kitchen all weekend, and I had all of Sunday evening to fix that little glitch. So after a little bit of light reading, picking this recipe was an obvious choice – it called out to me as a refreshing and citrusy pick-me-up, ideal to indulge in after a day of travelling and a weekend of stomping! Read more…

Carrot Cake

I don’t buy it a tab bit when people say they don’t like carrot cake. Its not possible. They probably haven’t tried carrot cake, and are just put off by the idea, like some people are put off by zucchini bread. I find that if i just serve it without bringing the name of the […] Read more…

Lemon Coconut Bundt Cake

There are some culinary experiences that are forever etched in your psyche. They are unique, because quite frankly, they just cannot be recreated, and are incomparable with any other exploit. One such meal that I am proud to have experienced was at Dinner by Heston. Triggered by that, and his TV show How to Cook […] Read more…

Double Chocolate Walnut Cookies

Its been a confusing and somewhat tempestuous decision to take joie de vivre a step forward, in the grander scheme of things. Here’s how: first and foremost, after months of procrastinating and undue delay, I finally had a sit down with Gunjan of Design of Information for a successful and excellent brainstorming session, the fruit […] Read more…

Lemon Love

Things to do when life (or your friends who whisk you away to their farm house with lemon trees) gives you lemons: Firstly, and most importantly, take pictures of the lemons.  Zest some of the lemons so you can use the zest and the juice in different things. Make some lemonade (see feedback below), to […] Read more…

Bite Sized Bliss

We finally got around to watching Lincoln last night. If you haven’t already seen it, I highly recommend it. Despite being nearly Hindi movie long (150 minutes), the movie itself and the story line unfolded seamlessly, and the make-up is so spectacular, it feels as though Lincoln himself was on screen- definitely deserved that BAFTA. Before […] Read more…

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