Dal (Daal), according to me, is the most common, traditional and famous Indian dish (next to rice and rotis/chapatis). Dal is a term used for dried, split legumes/pulses ( such as lentils, beans and peas). However, in Indian cuisine it refers mostly to lentils and any dish made from these.
There are many types of lentils. You can make the whole lentil rainbow, because there are so many different colours of lentils 🙂 There are white, yellow, red, green, brown and even blue lentils (grown in France and Italy)!
I have a very exciting news! 🙂 I have been nominated for the Blogger Recognition Award for the first time. I can’t tell you how surprised and happy I am right now. I am a new blogger. I don’t even know much about blogging- whether I am doing it right or wrong, whether I make any typical blogging mistakes (If I do, please, correct me always!) or not, whether my writing makes any deeper sense or not, etc. That’s why this award is extremely uplifting and gives me lots of power & hope that there are people who want to read my blog 🙂
As you know, my son is half-Indian and half-Polish (well, he is British in reality :P). He is a mixed child and his personality totally reflects that. He has got a lof of Polish habits, but his hot Indian blood tries the best to be the most visible 🙂 Well, even his British side fights hard to be there noticeable 😛 Tough life 😛
Expats are North Americans, Europeans and Australians, while Asians, Middle Easterns, Africans and South Americans are mostly considered as immigrants. A highly educated PhD academic from India will be a highly qualified immigrant in Europe whereas a German worker (bartender) or a British retired person in Thailand will be always regarded as expats.
Do you agree with it?
Imagine, you have never been to India before. You are a foreigner, possibly European/American/Australian. You have just landed at one of the airports in India. You are quite tired after a lengthy journey, but excited and ready for a holiday or a business trip. After walking quite a long distance you get stuck in a queue to passport control counter. You feel like half of the world wants to enter India today and everybody chose the same port of entry like you. Anyways, after a while you get the stamp in your passport. Then you collect your luggage, go to the toilet and start noticing…
On this Valentine’s Day, I want to ask you a question.
How did you know she/he is THE ONE?
Did you know that immediately- love at first sight? Or just one meeting and getting to know her/him was enough? Or it took you few weeks/months to understand she/he is the one? Or maybe your relationship has evolved from friendship to love?
Whatever is your story, I’m sure it’s amazing, unique and special. Every love story is 🙂
Do you wonder how I knew I found my other half? Well… At first, I didn’t have a clue he is THE ONE! I was spending summer abroad, working at the college…
I’ve just dropped my mum off at the airport. It looked like a casual drop off. I do it quite often in the year. Going to airport and saying bye to my mum is like a monthly trip to Smyths (toy shop)- nothing really special. Luckily, my mum visits us few times a year, plus sometimes my dad joins her. Besides that, my mum-in-law flies whenever she can. Overall, welcomes and goodbyes at the airport aren’t extraordinary or deeply emotional for us. I’m really happy we feel like that because it means our goodbye is never for long 🙂 However, something has happened today…
As you know- I’m Polish woman married to Punjabi man. Together we create Polish-Punjabi fabulous fusion 🙂
This year, we celebrate 10 years as a couple so I’ve had enough time to learn few things about Punjabis 🙂 In fact, I have developed the whole New Punjabi Alphabet.
In the second part of our interview we talk a lot about family, traditions, food, languages and raising our Fabian as multicultural & multilingual child. You can find out how we go through life as fabulous fusion 🙂
Fabulous Fusions 