There are times that one craves food flavours which ARE NOT INDIAN despite the fact that we both love Indian food. To that end, I splurged yesterday at Sitel's Departmental Store and bought a jar of Ragu spaghetti sauce and a jar of Ragu pizza sauce (at ruinous expense - about $10 for both.)
The other day we stopped at Sindhi Sweets to get take-out naan bread (to use as pizza base). We do not have an oven, so cannot REALLY make pizzas, but I did buy a block of mozzarella and of course there are garlic cloves and tomatoes aplenty, so we can make an ersatz sort of pizza - maybe more of a calzone - in the sandwich press.
I realized - after the fact - that I had pureed several tomatoes and frozen the puree before we left for Chennai. Technically, I could have made spag. sauce just with that (I have found oregano), but now that I have the Ragu, I will combine some of each and freeze the second half of the jar for a second spaghetti meal.
We just don't realize how cosmopolitan we are in Canada (or the US) until coming here and finding that other ethnic foods are basically non-existent except for Chinese - often on a menu opposite the Indian choices.
I have a few other pictures to send you. One is of a neat beetle the size of a nickel but humpy, and one a big millipede. Also have shrunk a few others of Rob's birds. Here are a few for now.
Hansi
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| Millipede and my colourful athletic shoe |
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| Hoopoe |
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| Hovering Pied Kingfisher |
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| Mirror image Painted Storks |
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| Beetle about the sizeof a nickel |
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