Like most Mumbaikars, for home chef Priya Chavan, rain-soaked evenings have meant frying up “garma-garam” bhajiyas. Chavan runs Priya’s Kitchen (@priyas_kitchen8), a home delivery kitchen in Kandivali with her daughter, Preeti. The mother of three recalls that these monsoon-inspired snacks were among the few meals all her kids would enjoy together. “We have a big terrace where all of us would spend most of our family time. Earlier, the kids would play in the rain and fight over bhajiyas, and now we all sit and chit-chat about life, but baarish, bhajiya and chai on the terrace still continue,” she tells us.

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