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Well Saturday happened to be Janmashtami for us at home. Most of the folks celebrated it last month, but for some it fell a lil late in their calendars that they follow.. Whenever it is, the point is, cook well, call your near and dear ones and eat well.. Our festivals are mostly about eating and getting together right! Just kidding.. Anyways, what i wanted to write was that for the first time after wedding and for the first time in my life, i had cooked so many items!! In fact, i was in kitchen the whole day 8am to 8pm, ofcourse with breaks in-between ;-) But it felt so nice when everything came out well.. Appam, Payasam, Vada, Seeyam, Pongal.. the menu was awesome. And everything in lots!! Every time i talk to my mom, she keeps repeating it: "When you were here, i never had any opportunity to eat anything made by you".. I never ever used to cook when i was with my parents.. She never used to insist too. All that i did before marriage was make coffee, tea, Maggi (2 minutes)!! That was all i knew. But of course when i was working in Bangalore, i had a Mumbai roomie and kind of learnt some North Indian items from her. Even then whenever i used to go home to Chennai, i still never cooked.. Mom wud be like, "oh my dear kid, u must be starving.. u must hav lost taste of home-made food.. i'll cook your fav things when u come.. blah blah" and she'll feed me all the more affectionately. How much i miss her now :-( Talking to her every alternative day sometimes is just not enough!! Even when i was drawing the tiny footprints of Lord Chinnikrishna with the rice flour paste, i was reminded of my good times at home.. I used to draw them from the gate entrance of my home till the kitchen inside where the pooja was done.. Here i had to do it just inside the kitchen, we can't draw anything on the carpets ;-) So Krishna straight away jumps into our kitchen!! However this Janmashtami brought a lot of fond memories to me.. And ofcourse not to miss the fun part.. eating a complete south Indian menu with all the sweets and savories i prepared along with some of our friends here.. It was fun!
Well Saturday happened to be Janmashtami for us at home. Most of the folks celebrated it last month, but for some it fell a lil late in their calendars that they follow.. Whenever it is, the point is, cook well, call your near and dear ones and eat well.. Our festivals are mostly about eating and getting together right! Just kidding.. Anyways, what i wanted to write was that for the first time after wedding and for the first time in my life, i had cooked so many items!! In fact, i was in kitchen the whole day 8am to 8pm, ofcourse with breaks in-between ;-) But it felt so nice when everything came out well.. Appam, Payasam, Vada, Seeyam, Pongal.. the menu was awesome. And everything in lots!! Every time i talk to my mom, she keeps repeating it: "When you were here, i never had any opportunity to eat anything made by you".. I never ever used to cook when i was with my parents.. She never used to insist too. All that i did before marriage was make coffee, tea, Maggi (2 minutes)!! That was all i knew. But of course when i was working in Bangalore, i had a Mumbai roomie and kind of learnt some North Indian items from her. Even then whenever i used to go home to Chennai, i still never cooked.. Mom wud be like, "oh my dear kid, u must be starving.. u must hav lost taste of home-made food.. i'll cook your fav things when u come.. blah blah" and she'll feed me all the more affectionately. How much i miss her now :-( Talking to her every alternative day sometimes is just not enough!! Even when i was drawing the tiny footprints of Lord Chinnikrishna with the rice flour paste, i was reminded of my good times at home.. I used to draw them from the gate entrance of my home till the kitchen inside where the pooja was done.. Here i had to do it just inside the kitchen, we can't draw anything on the carpets ;-) So Krishna straight away jumps into our kitchen!! However this Janmashtami brought a lot of fond memories to me.. And ofcourse not to miss the fun part.. eating a complete south Indian menu with all the sweets and savories i prepared along with some of our friends here.. It was fun!
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