Backtrack to Auroville - FOOD

You don't want to get me started on how delicious the Indian food is, especially in India.  Basically I'm not going to survive being back in the States without a solid collection of all the best Indian recipe books.

As requested by my mom, here are some pictures of the food I ate in Auroville.

Joy Guest House supplied us with breakfast every morning: bread, pb, and jelly.  Everything comes from local shops, which means the bread is really hard but is organic and could last a lifetime, the peanut butter is also organic and really pale-looking instead of the nice brown that is seen in America, and the (organic) jams are all made from fruits that are picked on Auroville farms.  So far the types of jam I’ve had are mango-pineapple, orange-ginger, something with papayas, guava, and the usual grape.

For lunch I liked to go to a neighboring village inside the boundaries of Auroville called Kottakarai, where the famous Ganesh Bakery is located!  It's a very small but quaint place where people can sit and enjoy yummy pastries and bread, and buy things like vegan biscuits and coconut buns.  My favorite is the chocolate croissant that they make.

 

 

For lunch/dinner I liked to go to La Terrace, which is a café right above the Solar Kitchen buffet.  Both places make the most delicious foods.  My favorite is the Tomato-Basil-Mozzarella crepe thingee that is to die for, from La Terrace! (They have Wi-Fi on La Terrace, which is why the picture also shows my laptop in it)  

On the last day I had in Auroville, I ate this monstrosity of a lunch at the Solar Kitchen with a couple of the people staying at the same Joy Guesthouse.

 

The last picture is of a dinner I made myself from things I bought around Av.  This was the first time I ever made rice for myself, which ended up being a lot easier to do than I thought.  One of my favorite things about India is the fresh mangoes everywhere that I can buy for so cheap!  I could eat them all day, which is basically what I was doing anyways.