Beautiful place ....reminds me of Goa ...quiet, calm and lovely compared to the hustle and bustle of Mumbai ...even people are so similar to goans ..friendly and helpful ..
my love for photography has increased and hence i have uploaded some of the flora and fauna i found while walking around my apartment. Ducks were very friendly since the residents feed them bread.
my cooking has gone completely out of control [i mean the taste] since all i did the first few days is mix up some ready-to-eats and heat the mix. I am so used to cooking from scratch and fresh produce that i donot like the taste of anything packed and canned.But have to survive.
This is the second week and slight improvement is noticed. e.g my veggie moong dal curry - mix a pack of paneer makhawala gravy packet in water, add beans, mushrooms and carrots and cook. Later add moong dal vadis [bought from an Indian store] and cook till vadis almost melt. We also made pancakes - i guess i am allowed to call them pancakes. I mixed wheat flour [the flour tastes really good], custard powder, salt, little sugar, yogurt and milk. Fry them like dosas. This is lunch today.
Dinner has to have a non-vegetarian item - i have bought fish [even the frozen fish here is so well frozen that it tastes fresh once cooked]. Dinner has to be the same gravy curry, fried fish and chapathis ..well chapathis are going to be of various forms and sizes since i forgot to bring my rolling pin. There is a thrift store i identified that we shall visit later to find any useful household items.I have even forgotten my comb in India.
I met a lovely, energetic, and matured young man [a boy probably 8yrs old] who was very helpful when i went to the supercentre "Winn-Dixie" for the first time. He advised me to be careful not to jump around in my apartment lest the police takes me away as neighbours may call them. I need to remember that super centres have lot of criminals and hence have to be cautious. Milk has to bought in gallons not packets and not to forget there are variety of chocolates and chips to choose from. By the way dumplings are yummy - pork dumplings. Thanks Aaryan. He was a darling.
It was a lovely sunny morning - probably i said that a bit too soon ..its has gone dark, i can hear thundering, see lightening and is raining heavily...ok so the weather keeps changing within minutes- i heard about some storm coming this way - by the way its just 12:30 p.m. [afternoon] - its 11 p.m. [night] in India now.
Alachua county Libarary www.aclib.us – this dear friends is my library. My library allows me renewals online and I can 100 books at a time if I can read them in 4 weeks-coool isn’t it. They have DVDs, CDs and even downloadable free material.
