Wednesday, June 2, 2010

My Holidays in Pune - Part II, Food I tasted!!

Tried and tasted by Nivedita
Hi All,
As I promised, I am here with part II, where I am going to share about the food we had in Pune.
First coming to the food, there was absolutely no cooking for full 45 days. Everyday there was a maid to cook the regular food. But sometimes I enjoyed the food prepared by my Sister in law. She prepares very tasty no oil, thin Thali peeth. She prepared Sambhar, juices and butter milk. Her Varan (plain dal) is too good. This time, we missed Pao bhaji!! I did not take any photos!
The best thing happened was, getting fresh juices  that too early in the morning. There is a company which supplies variety of fresh juices. They have door to door services. Every day I enjoyed it very much. They had a long list of juices in which I tried were,
First few days I tried all the juices Beet, Wheat grass, Amla, carrot, ginger lime and fresh fruit juices like papaya, mango, chikkoo, pineapple and apple. Then I settled down for fresh juice. It was different everyday.
 I could take the photo only on first day!! There is apple milk shake, wheat grass juice and Ash gourd juice in the photo.
Next is exactly the opposite of above. I loved the jalebis I had in Pune. I think I never tasted so crispy and so tasty jalebis. There is one  Jalebi junction in Baner, opposite food Bazar. You get many other chats also with jalebi. His main sweets are Coin jalebis, Rabdi jalebi, Jalebi malpua..... and chaat!!! The list was Sev puri, Chole Bathure, Samosa, Ragda Pattice, Chaat basket ......,
I think I had the jalebis  more than 10 times in a month!!! 
                                      








Whenever I go to Pune, it is always a must to visit few restaurants. Among these are : Koyla, where you get the tastiest Biryani. Especially the one "Diwani Handi" , This is the mixture of Chicken, Mutton and Vegetable biryani with egg too!! Sorry, I did not take the photo. My younger one was troubling me a lot, so I had to pack my plate to home and have!!Visit this place if you go to Pune.The other food is also very tasty. But I felt it is little costlier than other restaurants
Afterwards, we thought not to go out to eat as Phalguni won't allow us to eat, we got the food to home only. This time it was from Tiranga! The main food here is Maharashtrian non veg food. The mutton dishes are very good.
One more place we visit is, Magnolia which is  Chinese. But this time,  we went for take away again. I wanted  to  try Mainland China, but becoz of my daughter I had to drop the idea. May be next time.
And we again took a risk of taking Phalguni to Pizza Hut. Again I had to stand and eat as she was not allowing me to sit on a chair!!! 
Next was the a big glass of chilled mint flavored AAM KA PANNA. My brother's neighbor Ashwini, brought it for us. It was the yummiest panna!! (recipe will follow soon)

And the Bhel, I prepared at home, (recipe will be posted soon)
                                       
and the cakes I baked in the class,(recipes only after I buy an over and bake the cakes)


I think my post is becoming lengthy!!!
Hey, and do you all think that I put on more weight after all these!!! NO!! Actually I lost my weight!!! now I can wear my old jeans!
I am stopping this here only. I will be back with Part III with reviews on few more movies I watched in Pune.

Keep Smiling

10 comments:

GayathriRaj said...

Oh wow what a treat to eyes....really i think u had a great time....

Indian Khana said...

Oh no...why did I came here...man u r making me super hungry...love the jalebi specially ....man I envy U :(

Shanthi Krishnakumar said...

Hope you had a great time and enjoyed a lot

Nithu Bala said...

Mouth watering..lovely pictures and the write up..

Kiran said...

Wow Nivedita,
this post shows what a happy vacation you had.Nice to know the door to door delivery of fresh juices.Very tempting pictures of all the eateries.Cakes look very good.Waiting for all these recipes from you.Happiness makes you loose weight.

Hayley said...

What a treat to my eyes...jalebi is my DH's fav. he is sitting here right now..also You mentioned DIWANI HANDI actually just today I saw that dish in our local supermarket's menu card..it's british store, but they do Indian takeaways and my DD asked me what is it mum?

Nilabh said...

How about recipe with step by step photos for Aamti ( cousin of varan)

Padmajha said...

Delicious array of dishes!!!Must have had a wonderful time I am sure.Waiting for ur recipes.I remember the jalebis I had on my trip to pune.I can still remember the taste.yummmmm

Malar Gandhi said...

Oh boy, you are making me very hungry right now...jelabis...juice and chaat,what should I crave for now???? man...comeon, give me a break, haha. Guess, you had a good time.:)

Srivalli said...

wow too good!..I am glad you enjoyed!

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