My Birthday Cake

Priya baked this wonderful cake for my Birthday.






I was stuck in Cincinnati on 10th, so we celeberated it belatedly last weekend.



The challenge priya had was to get a really good taste but avoiding the calories that come with a rich cake.





In the end, it came out really delicious, and much of the cake was consumed by her friend than me or Priya.









The cake had only egg whites, the icing fat free cream, sugar and splenda mix. On the whole, a really delecious cake with less than 30% of the guilt ;-)

Intrrrrrrrrrrrrooooooooducing Kutlu!!! (Drumroll...)

You must be wondering why this weird name for a kitten, but
funnily enough, it does not answer to its actual name! Sheeba! Kutlu a.k.a Sheeba came to our house about 3 weeks ago, when

Priya picked it up from the Kalamazoo Animal Shelter...
She used the age old trick of convincing me of getting this kitten... "Neenga Cincinati ku poita, veedu orey soogama aidarathu..." and had the expression that Puss in Boots had in Shrek the Third.

I didnt really have a lot of choice you see....

If I had refused.. "Kaapi tumblera NUNG!!! nu veppa", "Rasathula uppu jasthi", "Dosai ketta, idli thickness ku varum!!! In order to survive such a calamitious lifestyle, I decided to do what all husbands have been doing for ages for survival...knowing that "words are mightier than dosai kallu", we use deft and skillful wordplay to avoid WW-III .

Famous words of yesteryears came to play...

It took just two words to maintain world peace...

"Yes Dear" ...was all I had to utter.

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Kutlu finally came home after her 1st batch of shots and deworming,

first thing it does, starts chasing its own tail, runs around in circles furiously!!! "Namma ooru pamparam nyabakam than vanthuthu!!!" then looks up with giddyness and goes flop! It was a hilarious moment, and became a part of the Pu-Plux-Palghat clan ever since!