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Indian weddings are wild. Be it the sheer number of different ceremonies and rituals, the number of guests invited, the guys hired specifically to wrap turbans around the male guests’ heads (different colours for the groom’s side and the bride’s side), the bride’s siblings playing different roles in the ceremony (I still wonder what happens to people who don’t happen to have both an older brother and a younger sister like my sister does), the groom arriving on horse as shown here, the multi-day festivities, the gifts exchanged (making it all feel a bit like Christmas), or all the noise (starting with a flute player roaming the hotel grounds from early in the morning the day before the wedding and still playing as guests started departing 2 days later), the live band accompanying the various performers and then the DJ playing India’s current hot tunes until well past 4 in the morning at hearing loss inducing volume. What an adventure to see my sister marry the love of her life in India this weekend!

Who needs a cinema and a blockbuster movie when you could get some piping hot popcorn just walking down the street?

A short break from all the India spam because tomorrow is Shrove Tuesday, i.e. Fat Tuesday, aka the best excuse to indulge in all the fatty carbs (regardless of whether you are religious or not). As a pancake lover, the UK tradition of eating pancakes for Shrove Tuesday immediately appealed to me. But after a few years, I decided to mix things up a little bit, trying out different types of pancakes each year - one year there was Kaiserschmarrn, another year there were Blintzes. Chinese Scallion Pancakes or Japanese Okonomiyaki would be amazing too. Or Indian Idli made from fermented rice flour batter. In Germany where I grew up, it is actually more common to eat something fried for Shrove Tuesday, especially the typical German jam-filled doughnuts dredged in sugar called Berliner. A quicker and easier way to deepfried sugary goodness than faffing about with a yeasted enriched dough is to make fritters, e.g. like the Banana Garam Masala fritters I posted on the blog last year. Last year I shared some more ideas for Shrove Tuesday on the blog - I put the link in my profile if you want to have a look. What is your favourite way to celebrate Shrove Tuesday? Do you have pancakes and if so, do you go traditional or like to try something different? Or do you opt for something fried?

Visiting one of India’s many stepwells, this one was in Jaipur.

Just another day outside one of Jaipur’s city gates. Not sure I would stock up on beans and other legumes here given the sheer number of pigeons constantly flying overhead but it did make for a great photo.

As expected, I have already lost count of just how many cups of Chai Masala I have had since we arrived in India. Thankfully, most of them come in tiny cups like these terracotta ones.

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Roasted Rhubarb with Tonka Bean

Browsing through my recipe index the other day I noticed a couple of things. First, it is in dire need

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