Food.......!!!!!! my love...my memories......

Every morsel of food is a delight...it gives us life ,recharges our battery,stirs our soul,brings back memories,inspires us!!.

I ve been a crazy fan of the cookery shows on TV!!from my childhood.I love to cook!!!...food really really inspires me!
Its like clay.....u just play with it...it takes the flavour and love of the person who cooks it giving different interpretations when someone serves it to you!!!.
You can cook a simple Thayir Sadam or a complex dish  cooking relieves your stress,kindles your creativity and is something that you better know to survive!!

Early memories of enjoying food are those hurried up morning breakfast sessions while you pray that the bus wont miss you :)  and end up being late to school!!the simple yet yummy Idli Sambhar combo!!nothing can ever beat this unassuming superman combo!!!that will get your day kick started bindass!!!!
My lunch at school was Curd rice and potato fry or any other rice mix with the appropriate veggies(2 varieties of veggies was a must!!!).I remember a north indian friend sharing Green Chilli pickle(Yummy and heavenly) with rotis! or my good friend bringing the ever so simle paruppu sadam with baby potato fry:).

Evenings was filled with simple homemade dishes crispy dosas which my granny made and the my ultimate love pudina chutney!!!!!!.............ooooooooooooooooo i love it anyday.Somedays it would be some new stuff which my aunt saw on TV and all of us cousins used to be guinea pigs to any new dishes she used to make!
When i started cooking ,i guess i was in class 5;  my easy menu for the evening used to be Top Ramen noodles ( i would make it a little soupy since i didnt get the water measure right :P) and my brother always loved what i made.My upmas,cutlets,samosas(thanks to cookery class in school) had a good fan following...even the instant coffee i made was appreciated!:).

Saturdays was the best of it all...when i return from school  amma will be home and as i approach home just about half a kilometer away(just exaggerating :P) i would know she is making rasam,keerai masiyal,karunaikizhangu varuval!!!!and lunch was eaten on banana leaf!! .
Oh how i love the way i would wait for her to serve all the dishes in a certain order and only then start eating.
Sundays was the " Non Veg" days !!!breakfast watching Mahabhaaaraaaaaaaaat....Luch watching some regional language film......dinner was usually with  stories about the whole week or some news programme!!.The fish curry my perimma made will make you start crying(it used to be sooooo spicy n yummy!!!)!!.And when it rained in Chennai it was time for Pakoda's with evening tea!:).
Summer s was always filled with Watermelons,Elanee,Nungu,ICE CREAM....no nonsense bottled crazy colas!!.There was a huge mango tree opposite our house , it was the most wanted since it had so many mangoes , all the rowdy boys used to throw stones at it watching them from our jannal was a favourite pasttime!!he he i used to have  binacoulars to count the mangoes!!!lol!!.

College was absolutely no food or very less food ....ended up like a skeleton after my Engg quite obvious why !!.
But memories of spending time at my Mallu friend's house is just amazing!!Aunty made the most yummiest fish fry and rose cookies for Christmas was an all time favourtie!!!.
My fraandship(the new movie...see i am updated!!) with mallu food was those days i spent at her home doing  my final year project!!she would never let me out of her house without eating food !be it lunch or dinner!!:).
The food at my other friend's house was always a treat!!I need to write a seperate post for that !!
College canteen either had chips,ice cream or bottled drinks!:(.Miss sharing one chips packet among ten girls!!whatty effort!

PG was just traveling looong distance to college  and food was eaten as fast as you could coz you would be hungry like mad!evening was ice lolly and cupnoodles...i know nothing sounds remotely healthy!!

My office was the place where i met absolute food lovers...there was simply no looking back!!
The GREAT MANALI TRIP and the super cool food we ate there......the trip was special coz we ate different food at different Dhabas on our way to Manali by bus from Delhi!:).The adventure camp where we stayed had super amazing cooks who made the most beautiful food be it the simple bread toast(whole wheat i remember...)  or the biryani!!!.
While we stayed at Noida just for a couple of days we were roaming the streets like mad people for some Idli and Dosa!!!Innumerable cups of Gulab Jamu at Lunch ......5 rupee per jamun was a steal!!!!i d say!

Friday Lunch sessions at Eden,Sigree,Dhaba,Amaravati...... so many places i really lost count!!it was fun as we were a big group and used to look forward to these sessions!
Bread Omlette at Alsa Mall,Frankie @ greams road! ,Tender Coconut pudding at Fruit Shop!Mint Icecream at Moven pick we wre just having a greaaat time!!!

....................................To be continued:):)

Oh yes!!!to whomsoever it applies!!!lol

Its been ages .........happy to be back!!

Have always thought how silly people can behave....to anybody for that matter!!

No  matter what you study,how much your travel...how many languages you speak.....how many wines and cheese names you can remember......you still remain the same cheap person!!! :)

Incidentally ready two articles in The Hindu Open Page today on the same lines as to how we judge people by their looks  instantly (we ve really taken the 2 minute mantra seriously ,it works for maggie not people!!c mon!)and how kids nowadays do not respect even their own  parents as human beings! (reminds me of that ad where the father is like an ATM who walks along with  his sonny in a mall!!!! LOL).
Its not like everyone you see and meet is like that but some of them do have those shades of stupidity which they simply cant  hide!!Like .....I will talk to / mingle with people who are from the same ....area,community,religion,speak the same language,same status!!!or same level ofstupidity!!! :P(this is excused!! saves others  some  energy!).
This kind of behavior is carried on to places where you study,work,socialise!!etc etc!!so whats the point on being the uber cool dude and still have the caveman ideology inside your head!! huh!?
These kind of people just make you feel sick!!!cant they do something to slip  some sense in their head like slap them or something!!or rather give them an ANTI -whatever injection!!!

These folks live around you and irritate people without any end to it!!!If you have the time and energy try slapping some sense on a couple of them...the rest ......GOD shall only save all of us from THEM!!!!
Or we can learn to ignore them!!

So all the jumpy,ones out there who still live in dark ages wake up....all of us are human beings we can sometimes be nice to each other...for a change....!!!!