In this time of the year, few in number but lots in energy!
May 20th, 2010
June 1st, 2010
To all the chapati and Dosa lovers and to all of Sadhana family that ever had ‘I wish we had dosas in Sadhana’ thoughts on one of their trips to the local restaurants in koot road, we have some news: Sadhana now has a dosa stove, the one identical to those that we see in the local street food joints. Our Dosa stove of course has a Sadhana twist. It runs on minimum fire wood, same as the rocket stoves we use in our kitchen.
The dosa stove designed by Mohsin, is fuel efficient. The design is similar to that of the regular rocket stoves, but bigger and wider with a wide enough cooking stone on top. The way the stove works is that the burning fire wood in the fire area, covered by metal plates heats up the stone on top to cook the dosas and chapatis. The temprature can be adjusted by adding or reducing the firewood.
The stove was installed in the new Sadhana kitchen in January. This sure is a late post, but hey, we have our excuse: we were busy eating dosas. It has now become a Sadhana tradition to make Dosas every Wednesday for our ope stage dinner. And as we get more and more used to the ways our dosa stove, we are beginning to experiment with some vegan pancake recipes to make it a sunday morning tradition. Yum Yum Yum.
Sharing with you some pictures of Dosas and happy Dosa people.
Love, Chapatis, Dosas and Vegan pancakes
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As the sun is at its brightest best the Sadhana family is experiencing the quiet and warmth of the low season. With less than 50 people residing in Sadhana the community feels more quiet and compact, little unusual for those that experienced the high season with a group of over 160 people and the activity and excitement that comes with it. With small numbers like now and the extra bright sun people are finding ways to chill in the forest. While the pool is still the top favorite chilling zone, the neem tree is gaining popularity for people to slack and snack under.
This Saturday, many of us just hung out under the neem tree giving the slack line a go and snacking on some bread, hummus, wild passion fruits and such. The one hour slack and snack workshop turned into an all afternoon and evening picnic with all of us enjoying the shade of the neem tree, the slack line, the snacks and the beautiful company of each other. People playing music, sharing with each other some jewelery making skills, vegan snacks, some non-competitive cricket set the tone for the summer weekend afternoons in Sadhana.
Looking forward to many more such Summer Sunday afternoons.
Love, peace and Sunshine
xxxxxx
By Jon, Laura and Joachim
on the melody of “Banana Boat Song” from Harry Belafonte
The Sadhana Boat Song
Work all day on a drop of love
Daylight come and me wanna plant trees
Sweat like a pig and elbow grease
Daylight come and me wanna plant trees
Hey you kitchen team
Cook me something tasty
Daylight come and me wanna plant trees
Biggin up the hygiene team
Keepin’ our bums clean
Daylight come and me wanna plant trees
Chorus:
Day oh, day oh
Me say day, me say day me say day oh
Me wanna plant trees
Me got yoga, capoeira and African dance
Daylight come and me wanna plant trees
Drums, flutes and bonfire chants
Daylight come and me feel at ease (peace, peace, peace)
Me got dogs, cats, mosquito and rats
Daylight come and me wanna plant trees
Me got neem trees, mango trees, chilli and banana
Daylight come and me wanna plant trees (eat cheese! Oops)
Chorus
Bunding, mumpteeing, shout out to the forest team
Daylight come and me wanna plant trees
Vetiver everywhere, even in my underwear
Daylight come and me wanna plant trees
I’m in a dream, wake up team, get me up and going
Daylight come and me wanna plant trees
Cycling to the village on a ya ya ya yatra
Daylight come and me wanna plant trees
Chorus
Got a moment of silence
Eco dome, my second home, gets me nice and muddy
Daylight come and me wanna plant trees
We are happy, got energy, we’re sadhana people
Daylight come and me wanna plant trees
Look after mother earth, she really deserves
Daylight come and me wanna plant trees
Daylight come and we find our way home
