As it’s my Thursday (Thanksgiving day in the United States) I’ve been thinking about the things that I’m thankful for and this year my list is very simple: clean water that I can drink, regularly scheduled and reliable trash pickup, that I have a job and can feed and provide shelter for myself, and the sense of community that we are slowly building here in Bangalore. Of course there are others, but living here has made me realize how lucky we are to have even the most basic of our needs met and it has also surprised me how much we miss our sense of community back home.
I’ve been talking to one of the trainers at the gym while I work out and we were talking about all things food. Some big food news in India is that Starbucks is coming to India. The current India equivalent to Starbucks is called Café Coffee Day. There are multiple of them in the city and they can be found along the major highways too. I will be interested to see how Starbucks does here because at Café Coffee Day you can get coffee and a pastry for about 150 INR or $2.50. The same is true for lunch if you want a light lunch. So, I’m interested to see if Starbucks is able to charge the same prices they charge in the United States here in India. What I found even more interesting is that he said he can go out for breakfast, lunch, and dinner here in India for about 150 INR and if he makes his meals himself it is much cheaper than that!
We are hopeful to get to Skype with both of our families as they celebrate Thanksgiving. I’m going to try to make fried chicken, potatoes, and green beans for our supper so it will be somewhat similar to the feasts our families are preparing at home. We even have chocolate cake to eat with our supper!
I haven’t blogged as much about the food I make here because all things food have been much more difficult than I imagined. Our kitchen is lightly stocked with cooking gadgets and my attempt at Indian food fails miserably every time. I recognize that we could go buy more gadgets but there is a certain degree of adventure and challenge in cooking with the things we have. I’ve adapted well and baked a chocolate cake in the big soup stockpot just the other day. I’ve also been making pizzas in sauce pans. Oh, and one of the cleaning guys showed me how to open a can of beans with a knife! (I’ll be buying canned goods with the pop-top from now on as the can opener we have is an ancient artifact that belongs in a museum! I don’t recommend opening canned goods with a knife. He managed not to cut himself but I am not so sure the result would be as positive every time!)
I’ll try to do a better job blogging about the things we make here. I hope you’ll find it interesting!
I hope you have a great Thanksgiving! It doesn’t feel like Thanksgiving here with the warm weather, sun, and other festivals we’ve gotten to participate in. I do miss winter squash, sweet potatoes, and green beans so fill up on those for me. J
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