Piedmont Park - Mayor's Grove Playground

Piedmont Park - Mayor's Grove Playground
Address :- 400 Park Dr NE, Atlanta, GA 30306
Contact :- 404.876.4024 ( community center), 404.875.7275 (park)
Google Map :- http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&rlz=1B3GGGL_enUS268US269&q=400%20Park%20Drive%20NE&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl

Features	Ranking	Comments
Age appropriate activity	9	Mainly for toddlers and infant swings, few challenges might interest big kids
Playground Variety	10	They have lots of cool stuff to raise music awareness, some nice apparatus to check your kid's body balance. It really stimulates minds of kiddie people !
Overall Safety	10	The playground is very safe, its not linked to any major roads or highways. Its nicely tucked inside this huge park and even the slides and the swings are very safe.
Ground Type	10	Ground has a rubber kind of carpet ( which I prefer than wooden chips )
Cleanliness	8	From my naked eye it seemed clean but obviously you need to have purell handy !
Picnic Facility	7	Well Piedmont park is actually a picnic area but i'm ranking it 7 as near this playground They just had 1-2 picnic tables so only if you are lucky you could et by chance for yourself to have a picnic or a party there !. When this blog was written on 6/6/2008 the picnic shelters were under construction. Call park to reserve shelters though they are bit far from playground.
Restrooms	0	Yeah I know they are public restrooms they are bound to be dirty, but this one was really filthy !! AVOID at all times !!!
Parking	8	Its a bit of a walk from the parking spot on Park Rd to the playground, strollers recommended for infants & toddlers. Ample parking on 10th street too.
You may like to know		Nice lake with ducks. For adults nice walking trail and lots of restaurants nearby. An awesome place for kids and adults alike. Many performances in park during weekends and weeknights. Check website.

Whatz Cooking !

Paneer (homemade cottage cheese) Tikka Kathi Rolls

prep time :- 15 min.
cooking time :- 20 mins
makes 9 rolls

For the paneer tikka filling
1 cup low fat paneer cubed
1.2 cup tomatoes, deseeded and diced
1/2 cup capsicum, diced
1 teaspoon oil

To be mixed into a marinade
1/4 cup low fat curds, beaten
1 teaspoon chilli powder
1/4 teaspoon turmeric powder
1/2 teaspoon ginger paste
1/4 teaspoon garlic paste
1/4 teaspoon bengal gram flour
1/2 teaspoon chaat masala
1/2 teaspoon dried fenugreek leaves
1/2 teaspoon garam masala
salt to taste

For the Chapatis
1 cup whole wheat flour
3/4 cup low fat milk
salt to taste

For the filling
1. Add the paneer and tomatoes to the prepared marinade and toss lightly
2. Leave aside for 10 min.
3. Heat the oil in a non stick pan, add capsicum and saute for 2 minutes
4. Add the paneer mixture and saute over a high flame for 4-5 min




For the Chapatis
1. Combine all the ingredients and knead into a soft dough
2. Divide the dough into 9 equal portions.
3. Roll out each portion into a thin chapati
4. Cook each chapati lightly on a griddle on both sides. Keep aside

How to proceed
1. Divide the paneer filling in the center into 9 equal portions
2. Spread 1 portion of the filling in the center of each chapati and roll up tightly
3. When you want to serve, cook the rolls on a hot griddle

Handy tip
You can wrap each roll in lettuce leaf too.
To add some zing to the roll spread coriander-mint chutney inside the wrap
Serve hot with some ketchup and chutney.



Bon Appetit !!

Celebrations !!

And it started with my birthday combined with my parents' 28th anniversary as they are just a day apart. We went to a local italian eatery Osteria del Figo which is our favorite. We ended the night with delicious tiramisu & awesomme panna-cotta :)

Then it was Vedika's turn. We celebrated her birthday at piedmont park in downtown atlanta. It was more of a get together with all our friends.

Vedika's 2nd birthday with yummmy Pooh cake :)



While the Grown ups played kiddie games, the kids enjoyed themselves at the playground

Sticking straws in the hair !

Lemon and spoon race..

In all just some fun times :)

Ohh Darn !!!

Now this site is not letting me upload pictures !! :(..Well am gonna try again later...

Cya till then !!

Out and About !!

Have been ignoring my blog..was just lacking some mojo. I know barely anybody reads it but then I'm writing for myself. So lured back here again :). So what have i been upto lately..apart from ignoring my blog...i got a very nice mother's day card and cd with some of my favorite ad jingles from DH :)...my parents were here...spent some good quality time with them...celebrated my birthdayand their anniversary, planned & celebrated Vedika's birthday ( finally !!), and went and checked out some playgrounds for vedika :)

Just having some plain summer fun !

Promised Land Playground

In our search for different playgrounds, as Vedika keeps getting bored by going to same park, we found this !!..Its an Eastside Church school playground in Marietta. Its a perfect playground for growing toddlers and even little kids. The height of the slides & swings are just perfect enough to challenge young toddlers and kids physically ! They have a small sandpit and a different play area for young babies too with both kinda swings for babies & big kids. The whole playground has a very stimulating for minds kinda feel to it. In all it was a good find !!..I know we'll be going there often. :)

Happy Wednesday everyone !

ABCs...

Yesterday Vedika and I made an alphabetics & numbers chart...from here. I needed to get some dishes done and what i did to keep her occupied for that time was cut the letters & gave them to her to fill colour in them. Well it kept her occupied for around 15 minutes...and then i helped her finish it. Then we glued them to a white foam board..and voila an alphabetic chart !! Doing the whole thing takes only 30 minutes and it keeps your toddler quite active the whole time ! Ohh and the foam board was from Michael's for 0.99cents !