Indi Friday

I occasionally get lucky and my mommy and daddy share some yummy stuff with me!!

I like to drink all of it, even the little drops on the floor!

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Brown Sugar Bacon Pancakes

I know this sounds crazy, that’s what I thought as well when I first saw the picture of a bacon pancake in one of Martha Stewart’s magazines. A whole year later, I still could not get the curiosity out of my head so I decided that I was going to give it a try. I [...]

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Koresht Karafs

There are many reasons why I love J which can be categorized in many levels: his kindness, silliness, geekiness , dorkiness , and his culinary skills. I must admit that I feel very lucky that he likes Persian food and seems to not mind my neurotic rants about celebrating [...]

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Indi Friday

So I have posted about Indi and her pink blanket before. She still loves her blanky as the holes continue to increase! The other day she stepped into her crate, picked up her blanket, and laid down all curled up with her blanket under her head. It was too cute and of course I had [...]

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Norouz Mobarak – Happy Persian New Year

Today is the first day of spring which coincides with the first day of the Persian new year. The official time of the transition from winter to spring was last night at 10:48. I made it home from school just in time to sit around and celebrate with J and Indi.
The picture above [...]

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Chahar Shanbeh Sury (the eve of the last Wednesday of winter)

Today is the evening of Chahar Shanbeh Sury. In Iran people gather around bonfires and jump over the flames while reciting a phrase which loosely translated means “give me your red complexion or coloring and take my yellow or sickly coloring.” This is an old ritual which always takes place on the eve of [...]

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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

It is St. Patrick’s Day and I must post to honor J’s ancestors. The other day while at TJ I found a cute little pot of Shamrock and bought it for J. I had never seen one up close; it is cute with really pretty white flowers that open during the day and [...]

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Indi Friday

I am pretty, oh so pretty!!!
woof woof, kiss kiss!!

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Spring flowers on a window sill

I love Spring time, not only because I graced the world on the 20th day of Spring, but because of all the flowers that bloom during this time of the year. I love flowers, even though, I am also very good at killing them. I should also mention that I love it when J gives [...]

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Little India in Artesia, CA

I love Little India in Artesia. It is such a cool little stretch filled with all kinds of Indian stores. My friend Kumar was the first person who ever took me there. For the past few years we have kinda established a little routine: go for some vegetarian South Indian food at Udupi [...]

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