The brief was a Pushtimarg kitchen at bhog time without it tipping into a crowded genre scene: one dressed shrine on the top axis, one woman churning butter, and enough open cream around the food so the offering reads clearly. We kept the shrine niche green and recessed so the small Krishna-blue deity sits like a jewel, then balanced the kitchen below — brass butter pot, banana-leaf thali, sugar crystals — in flat folk shapes rather than rendered still-life. Makhan-mishri (fresh butter and sugar crystals) is Krishna's most beloved offering, and seva in Pushtimarg homes literally begins in the kitchen, so the cooking IS the worship here. The watching cat is our one quiet wink at the makhan-chor, the butter-thief child, left as a folk creature and never a joke. Faux-gold on the pots and festoon is flat vivid yellow throughout.