October 9th, 2006

Hi Everyone,
I just got back to atlanta after spending the weekend with Dad. I must say, I'm really proud of him. The house is as clean as it used to be when Mom was around and his cooking is really shaping up. My dad was always a good cook but now he is more than just a gourmet cook, but a good every day normal cooking cook. :o) We had a pleasant weekend, went to the temple for a Satyanaran katha on Friday as it was Sharad poornima, met a few friends and family friends. Dad and Usha aunty stocked me up on food for the next two weeks. I have another big test coming up in two weeks but this time with all this food I won't be eating out as much. Diwali is in two weeks and I got lucky this time, Bharti aunty and Usha aunty made snacks so I've got diwali snacks too. I've encouraged Dad to keep mom's tradition up and make a special sweet called ghughras for diwali. It used to be a project that my parents used to do together. My mom would make the filling and my Dad would wrap the filling in a fillo-like wrap and make the little ripples on it for decoration. He's pretty excited about it so I think he's going to do it. He made a lot of khari sing for diwali (dried salty peanuts) for Bharti aunty but I stole a considerable amount. It seems as though most of this entry is going to be about food. Mom used to always cook up a storm for diwali and I always got to bring back snacks to college. I think we're going to keep up the tradition to the best of our abilities this time. (by we, I mean Dad..I'm not doing any cooking these days...;o) )