Naney tholaintha kathai!

It has been a long time that I had sat down to write a post. This post Childhood and those Slow paced days was written a long time back, but I had no time to publish it! Yeah, I know it is too much, but that’s how it was.

C# training kept me busy all the time and in between my mom was not doing well. And most important of all was - we started to cook at home! At last we re-defined what cooking was.

Our instruments were simple-

• One electric rice cooker

• One burner LPG stove (We are planning to book for a gas connection and purchase a proper stove – two burners!)

With this, till now we had cooked many items-

• Vathakozhambu (Vendakai and Murungakai)

• Sambar (All varities – Murungakai, Kathrikai, and the list goes on…)

• Urula kezhangu roast, Vendakai, Podalangai varuval…

• Dosa sometimes! (We buy the instant mixes)

• Podis (Courtesy – Grand Sweets): Poondu, Paruppu, Karu veppilai

• Paste: Vengayam, Vathakozhambu, Thakkali, Pepper Rasam, Gongra

• And finally Vegetable Fried Rice!

One month has gone by and we are still cooking. I thought the temptation would die down, but guess what we are going on to make new dishes (Aray vekkadu – Half boils; kozhanja soru – over cooked rice – kanji; Kozhmbu becoming Sambar!) These dishes doesn’t happen everyday, only when we invite someone over dinner or lunch. It has started to become specialities for the guests! [Thana varuthu... hu hu hu]

We spend half the time of cooking on phone to converse with the experts, who are based in Madras (Our Mom). Their opinion matters a lot for the outcome of the stuff, else it would head directly to the dustbin [Or we might as well keep it till guests arrive]! We owe them a lot. Just imagine- It takes huge amount of time to prepare, cut, wash and cook. Three of us combine together to keep one sambar, but our mom wakes early, does all the dishes [we never had the tendency to wash our plates after a sumptuous meal nor had the courtesy to thank them for the wonderful delicious food]. Here, we just cook during the night.

What happens to those moms who wakes early, cooks, and then leaves for work?! Trust me it is difficult to wake early and to top it – cook without anyone’s help?! It is next to impossible!

Amma, this is for you! You just rock! Salaam! No words… [Amma enru azhaikatha…]

Apart from the cooking, we watched huge no of movies. C# was also played, but only during night shows; ASP.NET was such a horror movie that I saw the movie closing my eyes! Terrified, I’m still sweating!

As a whole, I had become too good a resource for any girl to resist. [Nenaippu than pozhappa kedukkuthu… Sigh!]