Anjali's Food Kaleidoscope

“A good traveller has no fixed plans and is not intent on arriving.”La tzu.
I am of the same opinion and beleive that walking on the metaphorical "off the beaten track" is far more intersting and exciting than just visiting the usual famous places.
      There is such a treasure of variety in India and just a little careful look around can reveal such amusing and heart warming sights .Thats what I tried capturing in my snaps and hope that you find them as pleasing as I did.
    I will not showcase here the pictures of the beautiful temples in the famous temple cities of Bhubneswar and Puri,  because I am sure you would have seen far better snaps of them, taken by professional photographers .     

All along the highway I found these cute little hay stacks. The paddy is harvested and what is left behind is dried and collected in these hay stacks to add to the fodder for the animals throughout the year . These hay stacks dotted the fields and gave such a charming effect to the whole atmosphere of rural and peaceful living. 

Another thing which struck the metropolitan me was that the bullock carts are still used as one of the modes of local transport and watching them was such a visual delight.

A charming rural fashion is that the women who work as farm hands carry their tiffin boxes skilfully balanced on their heads. Listening to their carefree and pleasant banter, I realised how much we lack all these small pleasures like chattering our way to the place of work  in the big cities.
     Life goes at such a easy and comfortable pace in these villages and when the ultimate aim of man  is happiness, honestly I didn't find it lacking  in  these parts bereft of gizmos and modern facilties. 

At Rambha I spotted this rumbling and run down small little home of a local and what particularly gave it an old world charm was the year inscribed on its entrance.

The bamboo stacks in the lake side at Rambha added to the beauty of this serene backwaters.

 This old man was a bakery on wheels and I must add that the cookies which we bought from him were so srumptious that it was hard to beleive that a local bakery baked such crisp and delicious goodies.
Give me some time and I will try and come up with some cookie recipes, though I must admit they can not be as good as the ones sold by this old gentleman.

       I am all for street food....the intersting assortment of piping hot snacks followed by the Puri cheesecake was a perfect finale to the deliciously intersting trip to these parts.