Meme:10 Things I Miss Of Mom's Cooking

RP has tagged me with this meme and I love to take part in writing a list of the 10 items I miss of my mom's cooking, . But it’s tough to decide what I miss most because I miss almost everything she used to make and now I miss home more while writing them down!

1. Avial: Even though I try my best and my hubby likes the way I make (He is a Big Avial fan) but I can’t make the avial like her.

2. Mutton curry: My mom was a working woman (she still is) and Sundays were special for us as that day mom will get more time to cook and it will be something special than usual so was same for the non-veg it was reserved for Sundays or some special events only. She used to make that specially for me as my sis was a veggie and still when I go home Mom demand to dad the first thing to bring from market is mutton.

3. Achappam the snack: that was one of the best snack she used to make for festivals. I remeber how her all north indian friends learn that from her and she brought them mould from back home.

4. Fish curry and fish fry: She used to make special fish curry with lots of onion and garlic paste with ‘kodam puli’ . It just tastes great. In MP we used to get River fish only and cutting and cleaning of that huge fish was my dad’s duty while me and sis used to peel the onions and garlic and we just hand over the rest thing to mom. It was all fun to work together like that in kitchen.

5. Cake: Mom brought an Oven and learned to make cake just for us and she used to make just simple cake but that was the delicious and softest homemade cake I ever eat.

6. Unniyappam: Unniappam was our favorite one and she used to make it as a snack to take during long journeys like our 3 days train travel to Kerala. The thought of sipping the special “Train coffee” and eating Uniyappam with that was just great (Now I miss my vacations)

7. Gajar ka halwa : Here in Kuwait we can get carrot any time in all year but back
Home we needed to wait until winter to get that and we waited for winter just because of mom’s gajar ka halwa. Eating that with ‘garam garam roti’, Awww I l miss that.

8. Pickles: She used to make 2 kinds of mango pickles ,one that we can preserve for whole year (MP style) and one is just for week (kadumanga Kerala style), both of them tasted great. And I miss her carrot and Lime pickle too. I remember how I was craving for her pickle when I was expecting Bittu and she somehow managed to send it to me :)

9. Ada pradhaman and semiya payasam: I miss the whole ‘ona sadya” she used to prepare but miss these two things most.

10. Gulab Jamun: Now this is something priceless she used to make. And then isn’t everything priceless that moms used to make?

Thanks to RP for passing this memo to me .

and now I tagg ....

Jagu ( Jaguu... finally I got the chance to tagg you !)

KJ (I know you are so busy but please please ...I will love to litsen from u this :)

hope and love ( Doc, hope u will do this)

Update : He bhagvan yeh aajkal ke bache jara jara si baat se rooth jate hai

Kusum (Girl, abhi gussa chodo aur thoda muskurado? you can write what u goanna miss of Mom's cooking when u will be moving to the new apartment, OK? :-)

Update.........After 3 weeks!

It’s been more than 3 weeks that I didn’t get a chance to nourish my blog with a new post. When I wanted to post something didn’t get time and now I got time and don’t know from where to start. Hmm let’s start with this :)

Bittu’s Birthday

First weekend of month was just a mixture of feelings, happiness, anxiety, busyness and chilling out. Mamma’s baby boy just turned five on 5th of June and I still can’t believe that it’s been five years to that night which I feel like just yesterday when we waited for him all night and finally after 16 hours of waiting and pain he agreed to show up just next day morning:). Bittu was waiting so eagerly for his Birthday and since last month he was asking me mamma how many days more for my Birthday, and the innocent reason behind his excitement was just that he is goanna have a box of chocolates to distribute in class and can wear his new clothes instead of his school uniform that day .


Here is a picture of Bittu's birthday cake , I don't know what is wrong with the camera, it showing April 22 when it was June 5th!!

An incident with Naughty Pavi

On Bittu’s Birthday morning he went to school and we went to chamber of comerce, ministry of foreign affairs and then Indian Embassy for some paper work of my sis’s visa.
It was going to take half of the day so I was organized with all kind of things like water, milk, biscuit, pampers, extra clothes and towels which I should take when I go out with an 9 month old baby. Well it was my thought and an incident happened that made me think again that is my ‘list of things to take’ is complete?
We were at embassy waiting for an officer who was in meeting and I thought to change Pavi’s diaper. I took Pavi to rest room with a towel and diaper; I just removed his diaper and was looking for a trashcan to throw it but couldn’t find one near to me. I walked to the other one which was 2 steps away and Bingo Pavi did the little job on me same time!
I handover him to hubby after changing and then cleaned myself , now it was so funny I was standing in the queue , all my kurta was wet more not by his ‘little job’ but because of “my cleaning” and I tried to hide it with Pavi’s towel , I was asking hubby again and again is it smelling ??? And he was just teasing me saying well, it smells usually you know but not now. I stood outside in Sun for 10 minutes to dry my wet kurta and that was the moment I thought it’s not enough to carry extra clothes for Pavi but I should take one for me too while going out hahahaha.


Stress!!!

At work place I always try to keep the positive energy filled in me which I can spread around and I believe that to pursue success effectively, you must build supportive relationships that will help you work toward your goals. To build those relationships, you need to trust others; and to earn their trust, you in turn must learn to be trustworthy. But it makes me feel sad when I see the things, peoples, thoughts and the trust changing in a second and it leads me to negative thoughts like am I wrong person in right place or right person in wrong place?. But after 2 weeks of struggle I decided not to fill that negative thoughts in myself and not quit the job which I love just because of some meaner people. I don’t want to, period!


Bittu’s vacation

Bittu’s vacation started and he is enjoying it well. But for me sometimes it’s hard to believe that am not dreaming and whatever I see it’s true!! Last night it was around 11:00 when I called him to go to bed but he wanted to watch TV. I was so tiered and went to bed leaving him in the leaving room watching TV and was thinking that he will not sit more than 10 minutes alone. I didn’t even realize when I slept and wake up after sometime listening television’s noise from next room and went there thinking that he might be sleeping in the sofa. And what I see there is Bittu cleaning his small study table with a wet cloth and It’s 3:00 AM !!!! I asked him what you doing he said ohh I was doing coloring and it spread on my table. I said come on we will sleep and he was still in the mood to watch TV, I rolled my eyes and frighten him then he went to bed. I covered him with the blanket and left to fill Pavi’s bottle with hot milk, came back just to see that Bittu was in a deep slumber within that 5 minutes!


Another weekend is coming and I will have some more to write , untill then keep smiling:)