Thoughts...

Above all, be yourself. If someone has a problem with that, well, that's their problem








Friday, March 25, 2011

Indianised Western Cuisine

   We do all know about sausages, itz a western food type and mostly u would have had it in the form of fried or roasted what ever u call it. Last Thursday my husband came home bringing two packets of sausages and said he wud do the cooking  (coz he doesn't have to go to work on Fridays) and he started cooking, I asked him what he was goin to make with the sausages, nd he told me "Sausage Varutharachathu". Has anyone heard such a name? for me it was the first time!!!!!!

    He took the two packs and started cutting, I did ask him whether everything is needed as its for only the two of us, He told me he wishes to do things lavishly. He started cooking (Note: To be frank he has never cooked even at his Bachelors accomodation), goin on adding whatever ingridients he got at hand......(I was there helping him side by side throwing stared looks upon him whenever he adds something odd) and then about half an hour later, the recipe was done...

   We sat for dinner, and my husband gave a proud look wen I did serve him his stuff. We started having our food, actually it was a flop still I was forcing it into my mouth, after a while he looked at me and said, "I dint think it wud be such a flop".... After cleaning, while opening the freezer found a pack there, again I stared at him and he smiled shyly.

See people with Iron hearts never give up, so two days later he again took the stored sausages and this time it was "Sausage Vazhattiyathu". He started and as usual I did the side help, nd after a time being he left the work to me and left, after adding in whatever he could add. Minutes later the item was ready. We had it and this time too it was a flop but far better than the other day at least we could have it. Today we were out shopping and when we came across Sausage he told "Dont stop there Im not goin to cook that stuff again"...

I couldnt get a snap of "Sausage Varutharachathu", below is a snap of "Sausage Vazhattiyathu", looks are often deceptive, dont ever try doin it if u need to have it..





Sunday, March 20, 2011

Nature in a Click

Alappuzha


Munnar

Ootty


Saturday, March 5, 2011

Home for Diwali....

This was while i was working at Chennai. It was Diwali time and couldnot get tickets on the train. I and my friends decided we could go by bus and alas all the tickets were full and at last by Gods grace we got tickets for a government bus.

                  We went to the Stand and the bus was the worst I had ever seen.... Geethu and Gow were in a row and myself and Vasu were behind them. Behind us were two guys and they smiled at us while we were trying to get ourselves seated. We both gave a stare because its natural or I am not defending our acts but I do hope its usual.

                  The bus started and we had a terrifying journey, bumps across the roads and the sound of the metals when the bus runs into the gutters of the road....eeeks. I think we both were fast asleep and it was raining heavily, a drop of water fell on my arm, opened my eyes could find out it was raining hard outside, asked Vasu to close the window tight, she told me she too felt the same but on her left arm.

                     We then tried to close our eye and suddenly we could feel as if we were standing under a shower.........alas the bus had a leaky ceiling, the rain showering blissfully upon us...........



We jumped out of our seats dint know what to do, suddenly one of the guys at our back row called us and asked if we were having bubble gums with us, I nodded no (inside my mind I was wondering what on hell does he need a bubble gum for). He told if you do have bubble gums, paste it on the hole at the top. The hole was not too large and after some time the bus halted for dinner. the first thing that we did wa getting bubble gums. we came back to our seats there was a total of 8 bubble gums 2 for each, asked everyone to chew, and hand it over, we started sticking it to the ceiling.........some were passing weird look upon me as I was doing the sticking part. This technique worked for some time, but when the fall of water was heavy, the bubble gum came down, and before reaching Nagercoil we had all the eight bubble gum sticked firmly to the top............... It was all fun for us the whole night having a rain bath on a running bus and sticking bubble gums all over the ceiling............:D