Fishtacular Friday!

My first attempt at fish!


Fish and chips...


acchi machchi!



Of fin and fun!

This past week had been a fishful week. A big fish was bought for me by one of my acquaintances – cut into pieces. Four pieces were put in each bag and I put them in the freezer. For the first time, I fried fish on my own. Dr. Nasreen visited me that night – we ate them together. It was good!

Twice Shahjahan – the cook from a café – bought fish curry. It was nice. Eat as much as you want without putting on extra fatJ Today I have made fish curry. It is done. Will it eat later. Just had my third cup of tea. Today I got up at 6am and I feel I have all the time in the world. I had made poha for breakfast. With Jagjit Singh, the morning started on a good note. Switched channels a bit. Nothing much. It is 1.30pm now. Playing Jagjit singh again… [The internet is connected but again the web server is down. Will post this soon….Should connect in the evening ]

Ye tera ghar ye mera ghar

Kisiko dekhana ho agar

Toh pehle aake maangle meri nazar teri nazar

Ye tera ghar ye mera ghar

Kisiko dekhana ho agar

Toh pehle aake maangle meri nazar teri nazar

Ye tera ghar ye mera ghar

Ye ghar bahut haseen hai...

Ye ghar bahut haseen hai...

Back to my stories of fish curries. I would always make a statement that I don’t eat fish outside my house. Sherin always remembers this – when she asked me to come to her home to have her fish curry – I had said so, according to her. I might have. I dunno. My mother makes excellent fish fries and curries. Now under her training, Paru also does it excellently. Whatever my children order – they get it from their grappa. In spite of his knee pain, he goes to the market to get fish!! When my mother fries fish, simultaneously we will be eating them – before lunch. Strangely, my brother doesn’t like fish, prawns… So whenever there is fish, mutton curry or kheema is made for his sake.

Let me close my eyes and recall all those people I associate with sea food:

1. Shampa’s family – aunty and Babili di – again hardly any spice but tasty. APPM colony, Mallayapeta. Rajahmundry.
2. Helen akka – she made this wonderful fish curry when we were studying at HCU. It was the small fish type. [I don’t know the names of fish].
3. Mohanty sir – he had this knack of putting fish in mouth and out came only the bone!! I love this family. My many dinners were here and also at GUR and UNS’s places - when I was on univ campus. These three families were part of my HCU life!
4. Akka – they eat a lot of fish too. And akka is an expert too. She makes good dishes. Yummm…
5. Sandipa and Sanu – A bong and a mallu! The fish was done very well with hardly any spices. Chembur – journalist colony. We all ate fish at a small restaurant near VT station, once. We also ate at the Goan restaurant near Lucky restaurant twice.
6. Precious – her house would smell of fish! No meat for her.
7. Last but not the least my kids! Here's a picture of them - they just got up from sleep to see live fish!
   

I have been going around and smelling the house – it doesn’t smell! May be big fish don’t smell. Now that is an ambiguous sentence! Anyway, I let the exhaust fan run and kept the front door open for a while. The ice-cold breeze was good for 2 minutes only. Shut the door and lit an agarbatti.

Will have lunch now. Will take pictures with my camera phone. Hope they will come out well….

[Saturday dated: Have added the pictures. Here goes the post too:-)]