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Chenap valley, Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India
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Winter hike to Chenap valley, Uttarakhand, India...
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Alpine accentor (Prunella collaris), Dhar Kharak, Chenap Valley, Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India
Gauri Parbat (left) and Hathi Parbat as seen from Chenap Valley, Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India
critters from the grasshopper family (Acrididae), Chenap Valley, Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India
a tree resembling a human face, trail to Thaing village, Chenap Valley, Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India
a wooden bridge leading to the trail towards Thaing village, Chenap Valley, Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India
A panorama of Greater Himalayan Peaks (left to right, Nanda Devi, Bethartoli, Trishul and Nanda Ghunti), Chenap Valley, Garhwal Himalaya, Uttarakhand, India
With my dear friend, Maria, visiting from out of town, we've been exploring a few restaurants but we also took the time to do some cooking and baking so here are the results.
Maria is an excellent baker and she put her skills to work in making some delicious apple tarts and pineapple tarts. They were so good, with just the right sweetness, and light pastry.
We also had an excellent cake from Dufflet Pastries and Plantain Tarts from Allan's Pastry Shop.
The main feature, Chen Ap (duck), is an old family recipe that takes hours to cook. It is first browned, then steamed to pull-apart tenderness before being garnished with preserved vegetables and a sauce made with the liquid from the preserves. Absolutely delicious!
The original recipe calls for two types of preserved vegetables but they have become near impossible to find. Luckily, a friend found one of them for me in Florida. Thankfully, with only one of these special ingredients, it still tasted great!
We had another old-school dish of Steamed Egg with Minced Pork, topped with salted duck eggs. This turned out perfectly delicious and I had enough ingredients to make a second one the next day.
Stir-fried Chinese Broccoli with Garlic, and Steamed Rice, completed this delicious meal!
This was a really good day of cooking, especially in an unfamiliar kitchen. The results were near-perfect and very delicious!
Home Cooking
Markham, Ontario
Was worth all the trouble and effort (the cold wet rain and the constant strenuous climbing and even the stupid bottle gourd I had to eat once for lunch ( !!!) ) to get up here. This view and the unbelievable fact that I could hear that river rushing on its path in the far distance, gave me simple, unadulerated happiness. Initially, I was disappointed that we had not reached the actual Chenap Valley ( I'm still not sure that we did or not - but my friend kept teasing me saying we hadn't, I suspect it was mainly to dismiss my huffing and puffing and slow climbing and the terrible effort I had put in). I wanted to be there, there where the river was. I felt so seperated and so apart and I felt I deserved to be there - next to that river because I had suffered the climb up here damn it. Somehow I was reminded of how VanderMeer writes of nature - that feeling welled up from inside me - that it was okay that I was here and the river was there, beyond my reach, doing its own business of rushing down and not even aware of a pitiful human like me. The river lives it own life, and I keep listening to its voice, from far faraway...