Yours truly, Kitchen Chick, being blessed by an elephant. Pondicherry, India
I wish you all peace and well being for the new year.
2009 was a tough year for me for a variety of reasons (and for one in particular), but we ended it on a high note. For the first half of December, we spent an amazing two weeks in India, visiting Chennai (and surrounding areas), Hyderabad, and Mumbai. Fourteen days of sunny 85 F days was just glorious! We returned in time to enjoy a relaxing Christmas weekend with Joe's parents, complete with Kurt Boyd's pastries from The Croissant Shop, and now we are looking forward to kicking off 2010.
I still have a lot of personal business to attend to, but I hope to find to time to write up highlights from our trip to India, including the South Indian cooking classes I took in Chennai. In the meantime, hop over to eCurrent and check out our January restaurant review of Red Pepper Deli. We'll have the photo tour to go with the review up in a few days.
Wonderful photo! Hope this coming year will have few, if any, low notes for you. And we still have some of the lovely pastries (thank you) from The Croissant Shop in the freezer, to pull out and enjoy at our leisure - hmmm...which one to eat for New Years Day breakfast???
Posted by: Julie Saul | December 31, 2009 at 10:46 AM
I'm glad you had some lovely time in India to cap off your challenging year!
Posted by: Jen of a2eatwrite | December 31, 2009 at 03:14 PM
I am glad you had a great time in India. I am looking forward to seeing your comments on the food in Bombay (I grew up in that city). For food-interested folks traveling to Bombay, I highly recommend a peek at my favorite Indian food website:
http://www.uppercrustindia.com/ver2/
Kal Dutta
Posted by: Kal Dutta | January 01, 2010 at 09:15 PM
Happy New Years to you! Thanks for being my friend.
www.grubandstuff.blogspot.com
Posted by: Kasha | January 02, 2010 at 06:18 PM