Sugar Rush / Europe

About a year ago, i got to see parts of Europe.

I am very glad i made the trip & parts of the trip keep coming back to put a smaile on my face.

The yellow flowers against a grey wall & a greyer sky, shopping in a grocery store in paris, taking the metro to everywhere, diving deeper into my jacket in a sort of cold i had never experienced & eating pie on a park bench. 

I look forward to more such travels & more food photos in the mean time:)

A pie crust with a custard filling & fresh berries. a mild sugar syrup adds a lot of glamour. I ate this while R drank beer on a garden bench on a sunlit afternoon amidst some very chic parisians.

Thats an orange - chocolate muffin with candied giner bits for extra pop! (on the far left ) & ice-cream rose (right)
We sniffed out gelaterias & ice cream parlours all over.This one here is wild berry with ofcourse, (my favourite) dark chocolate. Amidst other flavours we also tried, a poppyseed flavour, blueberry (just to see our tongues turn purple), lemon & yogurt.

We stopped for coffee all over. for small shots of expresso in wood panelled bars & for the cold coffees in the cafe sorts & for milky ones at a boulangerie cafe like this one where we ordered coffee, brownies & macaroons.

GADBAD summers!

There are so many posts waiting to be written.

I start writing them in my head, sketch the piece out with words on a spare sheet and finally scratch it all out and jump to dream about the next thing to do!

and hence a lot of posts die a premature death!

Its not always a good thing to say this and make oneself seem like an insatiable glutton....but yes i have eaten a lot of different things over the time that i have been missing on the blog :)

idlis wrapped in leaves with chutney at "janapadaa loka" on the way to mysore, this perfectly golden brown circular (almost geometrically precise circle) chicken steak at "the only place". salmon salad at toscanoes at the UB city mall.....but something that i ate a long time ago and i still remember and have photographic evidence of is the gadbad.

gadbad (in hindi) actually means a mess...and maybe thats why this sundae is called that.Its a uniqely mangalorean favourite available at pabba's but made famous by ideals ice cream.

So its a huge dollop of sunny yellow pineapple ice ream which melts into the layers of cut fruit and raspberry jelly and cashew nuts that is filed into a long glass....oh and did i tell you about the vanilla icecream and very very strawberry ice cream that forms the foundation to this deluxe sugar extravaganza....and please ! lets not forget that no sundae is ever complete without a wholesome and generous toasted nut garnish!

many (OMG...Im melting) hot summers were spent in mangalore at Ideals. sitting with only my head above the table and my hands wringing themselves over the laminated table tops...looking and eyeing and salivating at every passing tray and surrounding table till my gadbad would arrive....:)