• Pasta in Roasted Red Pepper Sauce

    What are some foods that cross your mind when you think of a toddler’s favorite food? The ones that come to mind for me are peas and spaghetti. However, overtime, I’ve come to…

  • Chicken Tikka Masala

    Chicken Tikka Masala is a popular Indian dish around the world. Known for his creamy, buttery tomato base, this dish is typically categorized by South Indians to be a ‘North Indian’ dish. Even…

  • Naan (Indian flatbread)

    If you’ve ever eaten at an Indian restaurant, you may have eaten a bread called naan. Nowadays you can buy ready-made naan in grocery stores. It’s pretty pricey so I figured it’s about…

  • Rava Upma (A South Indian Breakfast)

    Upma is (pronounced: oo-pa-mav) a typical South Indian breakfast. It’s made of wheat semolina, very similar to cream of wheat but more finely ground. In some parts of South India, they use a…

  • Zucchini Rice

    Rice is such a versatile dish. It can easily go from a side dish to a main dish within minutes. It’s also a staple in many parts of Asia – from steamed rice,…

  • Bringing Gabi home.

    As you may have guessed, since the last blog post, we travelled to India and brought home our littlest. It happened all pretty fast. We literally booked our tickets a week before we…

  • What is bonding and attachment in adoption?

    We are celebrating our 11th wedding anniversary today. Yup! We are celebrating it by getting our baby girl – it’s definitely going to be the most memorable anniversary we’ve had. 🙂 We want…

  • Sweet Stuff

    (The pic above is a sweet card my wonderful hubby surprised me with). If you read my previous post, you would’ve read that we received another document along with our written court order.…

  • Advice for adoption

    Advice for Adopting Families

    While there are so many things to think about with regards to adoption, I think my biggest piece of advice for adopting families that are already in the process is to make sure…