The best kind of Christmas

The best kind of christmas is a christmas at home! After living away from home for three years it was so good to be back home during my favourite season and month of the year. I decorated the christmas tree with my mum like we always used to, baked cakes and helped with all the cooking, and just to be present at home with my family this season itself is a gift by itself.

December is the time my home looks the best. My mum who (according to me, and a couple of other credible sources) is one hell of an interior decorator, should be given credit on this aspect. Her choice of home decor is impeccable. I’m always amazed when she finds the perfect …anything that just attributes to the whole idea of our home. And what about all those books!? You ain’t seen nothing yet! There’s plenty more all over the house… whenever I ask my dad roughly how many books he owns, he always says “5000… guess more”, he said that to me when I was 6 or 7, and he still says that. I’m 22 now. It must’ve doubled from then, at least, I feel. They add their own charm.. everything just fits.

Towards Christmas, along with making sure there’s wine and cakes around, one other thing my mum usually always incorporates is a traditional roast, a recipe handed down to her by my grandmother, and ohgoodgod, this roast (see image) according to me is the best roast I’ve ever had that I can remember! So, so good. I could not stop praising her!

Now, some more details, with a touch of the holiday spirit:

I hope everyone’s had an amazing Christmas and may you all have a wonderful life ahead!

This is my last post of the year, and as always, I end by saying how grateful I am for everything in my life, and for this year… let’s all have an amazing 2015 now! Peaaaace.

Happy Sunday morning folks!

Butterfly Cupcake, Bandra west. Made my morning… =)

Woke up to this beautiful day, attended Sunday mass at Mount Mary’s- on my way back picked up a delicious red velvet cupcake from my favourite cupcake shop, came back home & made myself sunday brunch, watched a movie aaaaand now getting back to some work with a smile on my face. Happy Sunday morning folks!

WAH! BOLLYWOOD

 Back to writing about the greatest restaurants in Mumbai…

If you’re someone who’s lived in mumbai for at least 2 months you’d know Carter’s Rd. If you know Carter’s Rd, then the restaurant “Wah! Bollywood” may ring a bell to you… a very classy looking set-up right there. As the name hints, this restaurant is all about Bollywood. The food choices were mainly Indian dishes, in fact if I remember right, they were all Indian dishes. At this point I should mention, the tandoori chicken I had remains to be one of the best I’ve ever had from an outside restaurant. The chicken was so well cooked; my knife just slid through it as if it were warm butter.

The set-up is certainly one of a kind! Their walls are filled with gigantic     bollywood movie posters, posters of certain actors; for example there was one of Aishwarya Rai from Devdas. The place was practically filled with people when my friend and I entered- such a crowd, that it made us believe this must be a pretty neat restaurant! And it certainly was. Did I have a good time? No doubt.

I’ve been told they have karaoke certain nights, which just screams out FUN RESTAURANT. As the IPL (Indian Premier League) is going on right now- (huge deal here), there was a huge screen inside the restaurant in which they were showing the current match live. Carter’s being an area covered with restaurants, this probably means competition for the restaurants to their left and right. Nevertheless I could notice among people on the street, were staff from other restaurants peering in trying to catch the match. Like I said… cricket is a very huge deal here. ;] Anyway, food was great, service was great, lovely unique ambience, overall, loved it! Found yet another great restaurant in Mumbai. Doesn’t get better than this.

Another one of those cupcake shops found me!

 

 

This is such a tiny but cute place! They have amazing interior; rot-iron chairs, mirrors and glass tables, not forgetting, rather a wide range of yummy goodies!  It’s such a nice ambience altogether. I keep emphasizing on all these places I blog about how you MUST visit, but it’s so true! One big thing I find here in Mumbai that I don’t have in my hometown are some of these! So today while my cousin and I were coming out of church, I spotted this little bakery, noticed the words “cupcakes” written on it, aaaand, didn’t think twice. I’m glad I didn’t. I had my usual red velvet cupcake… yuuum.

Couldn’t click a picture of the wide selection of amazing goodies, my bad, though I’ve got a snap of a personalized cake they’ve made, doesn’t it look absolutely amazing? Born to shop? with shopping bags? Damn. I want.

The staff was also friendly (which matters more than you’d imagine), the place is loacted right opposite St.Peter’s church in Bandra. What’re you waiting for? GO, GO, GO!

Love Sugar Dough [LSD]

Here’s another cupcake place. Not too far from Butterfly. In fact, they appear to be like siamese twins. ;] They’re right by each other. Though I personally am more towards the butterfly taste, I could never not like a cupcake. anywhere. And this place is actually beautiful! Lovely setting and the atmosphere really gets to you, the pink shadow and lovely lights, and not forgetting quite a wide range of love sugar and dough food items. This place is also a must visit!

   

 see, in a perfect world I’d have a little house between those two, right there…

Little drops of sugar filled happiness. Cupcakes that make your day!

Personally the best cupcakes I’ve tasted, ever. Little drops of happiness on this cake base, these are so rich with butter cream, and they leave you 100% satisfied; turns some non-cupcake lovers into cupcake fanatics. Give it a try. @ Butterfly; Khar Rd, Mumbai.

One among my three favourite spots in Mumbai, yes that’s big love!

 

redvelvet cupcake & strawberry and cream cupcake