Breakfasts of sweet and juicy grapefruit freshly picked from one’s own garden, hot, doughy rotis topped with freshly churned butter and crumbled jaggery and endless cups of steaming ginger tea…. Meals of steaming-hot real basmati rice doused in homemade ghee, hot tor dal (a soup-like dish made with whole Pidgeon peas, indiginous to Uttarakhandi cuisine) tempered with pharan (a chive like herb indiginous to Uttaranchal) and garlicky stir-fried greens from the kitchen garden...and the sweet, sweet finale: hot halwa!
