Weekend in Bloomington

“Bring your favorite cookbooks,” Sunitha instructed us before we left for B-Town last weekend.

Her request may have seemed strange to anyone, but us. For in the old days, we used to have a lot of fun with communal cooking - the concept of catching up with each others lives, while cutting a bunch of onions and potatoes.

So we drove the five hours and hooked up with Abby, Koichi and Sunitha. And then proceeded to stuff our faces with Blarney Puffballs, Saturday Night at the Irish Lion.

Over a late breakfast at the Runcible Spoon on Sunday, we discussed each others lives and then, what we’d like to cook together!
And then the real fun began. We shopped for ingredients and spent the rest of the day holed up in Sunitha’s rather quaint and charming rental, cooking!

The five of us had a pretty good time chatting non-stop, watching football, surfing the net, prepping the veggies, cooking, washing dishes and drying them.

Koichi plucks mint leaves, while Nanu watches football.

There’s no doubt about it. It’s the people that make a place special.