Sink is clean, kitchen is clean, fridge -fruit/juice/laban all untouched -given away, thrash is thrown, bags are locked, hand baggage too is ready....
For once!
Is it the habit or is it something else? Why am I ready so many hours ahead. Will the driver give me the last minute tension by not coming? Why am I tense about being relaxed!
So here I go again to my beloved ones. Will be back on 5th Oct.
Ramadan Kareem to everyone!
Friday, September 19, 2008
When pictures speak...
Here is the story of aalu+beans curry. It was meant to be a fry but as the tomatoes were to be used up I made a curry type. The pictures tell you the story I hope. I had made it yesterday and the leftover went into my sandwich. Shabash!
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Small is big - relatively speaking!
Sandwiches, burgers, pizzas - I get tired of this very soon. But dal, chawal - never! Cooked this on the weekend and was praising the simple dish very much. I fried arwi to go with it. It was a royal lunch for me! Royalty reminds me - I had been to a student's house recently. I had to stay back for her and did not take the bus as she had offered to drop me to DQ. After our meeting, we left together in the car [which of course is a luxurious car - oh you know....] and as she lived nearby - she was to get off first and the driver would take me home. As we neared her house, she started inviting me home - after a couple of no nos, I agreed. Her family is in Jeddah and she came just to meet me and submit the coop monthly reports.
So we drive into this compound with remote sensored gates. We pass by a villa which is where her brothers hang out and then we go to the main house. And what a house! My first visit to a princess' house. M is very modest - she kept saying her house is smaller compared to other girls' I know. So 'small' is 4-5 large living rooms 'saloons' with TVs, 2 dining rooms, 1 study room, kitchen, a couple of bed rooms, swimming pool and a garden with children's trampoline etc. That's the lower level. On the first floor which is M's 'my area' has apart from her married sister's room [she stays there when she visits them] and a room for her sister's children, a kitchen, a living area with TV of course, and her bedroom. Her bedroom is itself like an apartment - area wise - with an adjoining all mirrored dressing room leading to a large bathroom!
If this is 'small' house, I wonder how 'big' the big houses would be!!
I am lucky that all the four girls from the royal family I have taught are brilliant, hardworking and career-minded. As they are very close knit families, they have 100 social gatherings to attend - in spite of that they never neglected their studies. They party till 5am when there is a wedding and then attend a class at 8am sometimes! A good insight into their lives....
So we drive into this compound with remote sensored gates. We pass by a villa which is where her brothers hang out and then we go to the main house. And what a house! My first visit to a princess' house. M is very modest - she kept saying her house is smaller compared to other girls' I know. So 'small' is 4-5 large living rooms 'saloons' with TVs, 2 dining rooms, 1 study room, kitchen, a couple of bed rooms, swimming pool and a garden with children's trampoline etc. That's the lower level. On the first floor which is M's 'my area' has apart from her married sister's room [she stays there when she visits them] and a room for her sister's children, a kitchen, a living area with TV of course, and her bedroom. Her bedroom is itself like an apartment - area wise - with an adjoining all mirrored dressing room leading to a large bathroom!
If this is 'small' house, I wonder how 'big' the big houses would be!!
I am lucky that all the four girls from the royal family I have taught are brilliant, hardworking and career-minded. As they are very close knit families, they have 100 social gatherings to attend - in spite of that they never neglected their studies. They party till 5am when there is a wedding and then attend a class at 8am sometimes! A good insight into their lives....
Another day at PSU!
Started the day excitedly - I was going to make sabudana khichdi for the first time. And my my it turned out well! Did a research of the recipes and got it right. I got this urge for this dish somehow and I bought a big packet of the little tapioca pearls on my last shopping trip. Last night, I soaked one cup of sabudana for 1 hour and then drained away the water. I had boiled a potato as well when I was boiling the arwi. Kept the potato in the fridge. In the morning, was all peppy and ready to make the "fasting dish". First, I cut the onions, green chillies and chopped the coriander. Then toasted and pounded the groundnuts coarsely, and then cut the boiled potato into small pieces.
The overnight kept moist sabudana... All cut!
Peanuts are ready too!
Just rai, jeera ka seasoning, added onions and green chillies, salt, potato pieces and then the
sabudana. Mixed it well on low flame. Added the groundnuts, stirred once. Garnished with coriander and switched off the heat. After a few minutes, it was ready - ta da da. Yummm...
After eating it at home just before coming - I feel so full. Too heavy for a non-faster! Time for my second cup of tea. It is just 10.45am. Haram in Ramadan:-)
The overnight kept moist sabudana... All cut!
Peanuts are ready too!
Just rai, jeera ka seasoning, added onions and green chillies, salt, potato pieces and then the
sabudana. Mixed it well on low flame. Added the groundnuts, stirred once. Garnished with coriander and switched off the heat. After a few minutes, it was ready - ta da da. Yummm...
The pictures spea
k, I hope...
k, I hope...
After eating it at home just before coming - I feel so full. Too heavy for a non-faster! Time for my second cup of tea. It is just 10.45am. Haram in Ramadan:-)
Am here at PSU - no work - I have to take out the stuff from the cupboards and arrange them. As there is one more vacation and and the books will gather dust - so a reason for this lazy bones not to do it.
I wish I was spending all this time at home!
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