Kitchen Chronicles - 2

There is something about boiling the milk my way. I prefer the flame to be a bit low, so i can carry on doing my usual stuff without being worried of any quick-milk-spill-causalities, which usually happens on a high flame. And the boiling milk should reach the highest point-of-drop-out from the vessel. Only then i go to turn off the gas. Thats how i have seen my mom do it. And that's how i like to do it too.

Unlike the boy, the flame will be high, he's right there in front of the milk waiting for it to just start boiling. And he's already turned off the gas even before the milk starts its raise upwards.

I have often told the boy that the germs dont get killed that way and the boy has also pointed out to me many times that the milk is already pasteurized, so requires very little boiling. Alas, my Indian brain is already set on a equation that says only when the milk is about to spill out, the germs get killed. I still prefer boiling the milk the mommy way. Let's just say, Me and the boy have had our share of fights over split milk ;) .

So today there were two of us preparing the morning breakfast and looking after the boiling milk. The milk started its raise and the boy immediately turned off the gas.

Me: You could have let it boil a few more seconds! *With hands on her hips*

Boy: What difference would it have made.. *Ohh not again .. the same drilling milk session*

Me: Well.... Psychologically..... It would have made me a lot happier then i am now..... *smiling coyly *

Boy: arrgghhh!!!


Well, am hoping that someday boy starts boiling the milk my way :)...

International Day of Love

So how did your valentine day go guys???


All u singles out there.. did you flirt the day away??
anyone's got any special moments to share??


Let me tell you mine...


Day started out pretty normal.. with the boy driving my uncle to bus-stop early in the morning... i opted to stay back at home for two reasons..
1) maid would come by 7:30..
2) had big plans of baking a home-made-valentine-chocolate-cake for the boy..


I just had half n hour to make the cake.. cos the boy would be back by then.. wanted the cake to be a surprise for the boy.. But for my great horror.. turned out only one glass of milk was left and the recipe needed minimum 2 glasses.. i decided on trying it out with just 1 glass.. with the cake batter ready .. all that was needed was to place it in the cooker. and with this done. i just had to wait for the boy to be surprised ....

Boy came back in no time with a bunch of roses n carnations(oh yeah i love carnations :) .. especially red ones)... cake was still in the cooker ..n by then the whole house had started to smell of the baking cake.. my boy has got one hell of a inquisitive nose.. n i din take him long to land in the kitchen with an raised eyebrow..as always any plans to surprise him in food section gets busted easily.. so i was caught red handed with the baking cake..

when the cake was ready to removed out from the cooker.. i realized that the dish in which i poured the batter inside the cooker had gotten tilted and water in the cooker had flowed into the vessel.. so cake wasn as i expected it.. but the boy munched on it anyways...

Boy took me valentine shopping in the noon and i ended up picking two jeans and one capris ( aha sale season... i just love this month for too many reasons ;).. )..
One of boy's friends got this complimentary passes for place called i-bar for the evening... so we ended up over there .. nothing like a good music and a round of drinks n dinner with friends on a valentine evening. It was perfect double date.. clicked too many crazy snaps..

The most embarrassing part of the evening was...me n boy's friend sheetal, wanted to teach these guys how to give a salsa dip pose for the photo.. she tried to dip me and was unable to take my weight **FYI- I weigh only 50 kgs.. please dont think otherwise**.. which resulted in a near fall and boy saving us both on time from the big crash... all the while i was laughing my heart out.(can say results of a two very strong cocktails... ) Reached home by 12 and it felt like the entire day had just passed on in a fast-forward flow..

Anyways tell me guys how did your international-day-of-love go????


PS: Woke up at 7:30 with a heavy heart.. n now at office.. as usual with a fresh set of Monday blues....
I HATE MONDAY MORNINGS :( ....

Kitchen Chronicles

It is a very normal day in the kitchen... girl is busy getting the oil ready in the kadia(utensil) for mustard seeds n curry leaves seasoning and the boy is lost in cutting onions... oil is hot n ready for the mustard seeds .. the girl drops the mustard seeds into the oil and immediately jumps some 3 feet away .. yup u guessed it right... she's freaking scared of the oil droplets that jump out when mustard seeds crackle... boy looks at this and starts nodding his head..then the gal gets ready to drop curry leaves into the oil from 1 meter away... boy stops cutting the onions ...

boy(like a modern day hero): give i will drop the curry leaves
girl(with a relieved look): take it.

boy stands in front of the stove holds up his palm inward, right above the utensil and looks at me

boy: see nothing happens.. you simply get scared.
girl: yeah yeah.. you first drop the curry leaves

boy drops the curry leaves n holds his palm again on top ... gives me a sweet smile.. immediately smile turns into funny frown.


ahha my love u got it right this time... sometimes the oil crackles do hurt :P ....


PS: No person was seriously injured / bandaged / hospitalized during the above event.

Month that reads love....

Caution: Mushy post ahead.. not advisable for boys!!!!

So begins the week of love.. whats on your mind this time???

I somewhere once read... there doesn have to a special month or week or a day for love.. yup thats very true.. but i wonder how many of us committed or rather married people among us do something extraordinary for our loved ones daily, unless it happens to be their birthdays or its an anniversary..

and with us married people out there.. cupid seems to have flown away..

Last year me and the boy were both looking forward for Feb 14th... love was totally in the air for us both...spent the entire day together.. there would be lot of surprises for the day.. we crossed our usual get-back-home-time deadlines put at us from both the houses and stayed out till almost 12.. but this year it looked like the enthusiasm had reduced..

So i have decided to hunt the cupid and get his ass arrows down on us.... well me n boy both have started spreading love with help of farming in FB.. boy has started drawing love signs for me and i have been drawing hearts in my farm..
lols i know that's very wacky of us.. but at times it feels good to be called a fool in love...

I have also decided to leave lovey-dovey messages for the boy this entire week... so here's one ...


There is something about u that makes me and my world go round n round n round...
makes me wake up each morning with a smile.....
and makes my each day amazing!!!

Domestic Battle!

What do most married couples fight about???

Reason 1 - Food & Cooking!

Not an issue with us. The boy manages the non-veg section and i look after the veg section and sausages section. We are very well co-ordinated in the food department. So no fights in the kitchen.


Reason 2 - TV shows!

The boy prefers only the movies and sports channels. And i am not a big fan of these sport channels. But being a good wife (coyly smiling), i let boy watch his football matches and F1. And he too lets me watch my shows (at least on their re-runs). So no fight over remote too here.


Reason 3 - Cleaning around the house

Boy is very helpful in this section. He shows his typical Virgo cleanliness streak here. So no fights over dirty dishes and brooms.


Reason 4 - Annoying habits

Either there are no such "tick off" habits in the boy or i have gotten used to all his pesky habits. And i dont hear the boy complaining much about mine too. So no fights over snoring or toilet seat covers.

So you think we dont fight at all??

Highly mistaken.... Wondering the reason for fight???

Reason is a big brown towel !!!


My mom had packed this towel along with all my other clothes when i moved in with the boy. The towel was totally forgotten. Few days back, the boy suddenly remembered about the towel and from then on the battle has begun.

Boy says his MIL has bought the towel especially for him. And i told the boy to call up my mom and get his confusion cleared. When my folks had called him to wish on his birthday, he asked my mom about towel, she sweetly took his side and agreed that it was for him.
Well i dint give up that easily. I got the boy another big peach towel as a birthday gift along with all his other gifts. Then i told the boy to forget about the brown towel. But canny boy says that he would lend me his new peach towel and i could use it permanently. aaarrgghhh!!!

Well the brown towel has never been used until now. It is still under the dispute for true ownership. Both the parties are not planning on letting it go.

So the towel tussle continues.......

Cakes, Mousse and Surprises!

So it was the Boy's birthday last Friday!!! N i had planned on few surprises for his day.. But this smart fella made it so difficult to surprise him...


Surprise No 1:
Day: Thursday - Before the Birthday.

I have never tried any chicken dish before. It was always the boy who was assigned to the non-vegetarian section in our kitchen. But this time i wanted to surprise the boy with some chicken curry. So i got chicken from the market in the morning. Around 3'0 clock, i started with the preparations. I had called my mom earlier and had written down her recipe. Cleaning the chicken in itself was very new for me. After some 10 -12 calls to my mom during the entire while, somehow managed to prepare a green chicken curry. Boy loves Jamoons. By six something i was done with the chicken n Jamoons. The boy usually is back home by 7, so wanted to finish everything by then. He called me around 6 and i told him i was preparing tomato curry for the night. Then i cooked some sausages n by 7 somehow was done with the ghee rice too. All the dishes were hidden safely in the chicken.

Even the boy was right on time.

7:00 - Boy enters the house.
7:01 - Done with greeting the boy inside the house.
7:02 - The boy smells around the house n knows something has been cooking all the while.
7:02 - Boy enters the kitchen n i am caught red handed with the chicken curry.
7:03 - A sad n pouty faced girl cribbing that it was supposed to be surprise for dinner n boy spoilt it all by sharp smelly nose.
7:03 - A smiling boy consoling the girl saying it was a very sweet surprise even though found before time.


Surprise 2:
Day Friday - At 12:00 AM

The boy promptly dozed of at 11:00 watching the tv, as he always does. I usually wake him up, but this time i let him sleep peacefully. Around 11:50, I took out the strawberry mousse, which was hidden safely in the fridge. Lit candles around the mousse and turned off the lights. Woke the boy up a little before 12. The boy gets up all dazed and totally lost. Once all awake, the boy is totally amazed that there was strawberry mousse hidden in the fridge all the while. Ahh atleast he got surprised somewhere..


Surprise 3:
Day Friday - Boy's Day


Boy is a big fan of Liverpool Football club. So i had already ordered for a cake with the Liverpool Logo on that. Getting the cake done with that logo was kinda problem, since no one agreeing on doing that sort of fancy cake. I finally had found a shop, and after much of fuss, the baker agreed on it. It was decided earlier that the boy would take his friends out for lunch in the noon and even i would join them. So i planned on taking the cake and surprising him during lunch there. But the boy calls me around eleven in the morning and says that one of his friend has to leave to Delhi immediately and the boy wont be taking them out for lunch today. Now i was totally confused with what to do with the entire cake.

I called up his other friend and told her to convince him on them all out for lunch. Somehow boy agreed and calls me up about the lunch. By then i was already on my way to collect the cake. So i told the boy i was out and would come directly there for lunch. But by 12:30 i got the cake n was also back home. The boy calls up again saying they were leaving now to that place and that he would come and pick me up. Somehow i managed to brush off the boy saying il take more time, so will come on my own. I take the cake and reach there... Boy's eyes is just fixed on the big cover i was carrying. Finally managed at surprising the Birthday Boy...



In the evening i open the door for the boy, I can see a bunch of flowers instead of the boy... My first thought is someone got flowers for the birthday boy. Then the boy says he got the flowers for me for all the surprises i gave him :) ...... Boy also took me out for a lovely open air dinner and drinks under the moonlight.

In short it was very beautiful day and i also discover that it is really very difficult to surprise some people :) ...

We live in a virtual world now....

So we( me n the boy) have taken up farming as our main interest... we now own piece of land and have been cultivating it regularly. You can also say.. these are the side effects of recession...

No, the boy has not quit his job, he still goes for work.. but his heart n mind are all always on his farm. Even during his regular days at work, he has sometimes rushed back home to cultivate his obsessive farm.

The boy who finds it difficult to wake up early in the morning to do his regular exercise, has gone to the extent of keeping an alram to wake up ealy and harvest his farm. I say he is totally obsessed with his farm.
Oh did i not tell you this... we even own cattle - cows, pigs, chickens, rabbits, horses, goats, sheep and also brown cows... we have got it all ...

Even when away from our farm... all we think about is our virtual world farm. As i blog this, i realize that, we have turned into one of those couples, who dedicate all their time into virtual farming. Boy we got to do something about this ... hmmmmm...

So tell me guys, are anyone else also being hooked onto virtual farming on FaceBook????

Just an ordinary morning conversation!

The boy is busy getting ready for work..

Me: Hon you have been gaining weight since the wedding. hasn anyone told you this at office?

The Boy: Don ask.. I have become a constant mockery at office since the wedding?

Me: Really... what have been people telling you?

The Boy: They have started calling me a married man!! (with a sad pouty face)


A heavy silence for 10 seconds.. then a busrt of laughter

Ahhha nows thats called sheer tragedy.. my poor boy .. *evil laughs*

From single to being married!

So has anyone been visiting this lonely blog, while i was away ???!!!??

Guess a there may have been quite lot of dramatic changes in people's life around while i was away.. Phewww i gottta lot of catching up to do....

Well let me summarize my update here...
A dramatic change in relationship status from single to married in my FB!


More about the wedding!
Wedding was on may 17th.. I still have no idea how the entire day went by.. but was damn tired by the end of the day.. so i hardly gotta enjoy it properly.. I have told the boy i want a re-wedding with him.. this time in goa.. and without any of those heavy gold stuff!!! Les see hows that goes now! The worst post-wedding trauma was that we were made to drink milk at each relatives house we visited!

Now am enjoying my days doing nothing but experimenting my recipes on the boy. Lets just put it this way -- Its a new adventure everyday in my kitchen!

GUys, for all those who are scared of getting married (who think bunjee jumping is any day better then a wedding), please go ahead n try it.. It may look a lot scarier from outside.. but once inside, you'll love it .. I owe it all to my boy...
So telll me guys.. wats new???

25's

This one is a very old pending tag and the most difficult one too.. writing 25 things about yourself is a huge pain indeed ....

I been cracking my brains for 25's past three days..finally i gave up and asked the boy and my friends to help me out with this... So here goes the 25's..

Things from my memory....

1) I hated going to school until my 7th grade... In 7th grade i had a crush on a cute boy in my class. And thats what inspired me to attend classes.

2) As a kid I always wanted to be a teacher. I would drape bath towels around as a saree and would teach the walls and floor with a book and stick in my hand.

3) I sucked my forefinger + middle finger together until i was 5 years old and i ended up getting bunny teeth later. Thanks to the people called dentists, it doesn exist anymore.

4) I was very mischievous as a kid. I got my hand fractured jumping down the compound wall and was operated thrice on the same fracture.

5) I have once entered a shop, tried on a dress.. fell in love with the dress.. got it billed without any second thoughts.. and walked out of the store wearing the same.

6) Three to two shooters down, and i can win any laughter contest.

7) Laziness is my middle name. My laziness has no absolute boundaries. At times I feel lazy even to eat something. (yeah chewing can be tiresome you see)

8) A total bookworm.. I love reading (anything other then academic books)... I can sit up the entire night just to finish a good book.

9) I love corn.. baby corn, boiled corn, sweet corn, (*)corn.. you name it and i will eat it....


Thats it guys... I cant brag anything more about myself :) ..

So now i leave the space for the boy and my friends to brag ...

My dharlinge friends say that...

10) She is always up to some or the other mischief and will never spare anyone when it comes to pranks.

11) She likes her name being used in each sentence.

12) She is very photogenic..

13) Her love for peach schnapps and martini never dies..

Well the boy and my friends both agree that...

14) Girl is crazy about puppies.

15) Girl is sweet and caring. She is the best of the friends one can have.


And the Boy (who stayed back at office.. just to write this) says ...

16) Girl likes to be very independent.

17) Girl doesn’t get irritated too easily. Has a high level of patience.

18) Girl is very carefree. Lives for the moment and doesn’t think too much about the past or future.

19) Girl keeps her friends waiting 9 times out 10 if they plan going out. (It’s worth waiting though )

20) Girl loves anything dipped in mayonnaise.

21) Girl is a shopping freak. Can spend the entire day in her favorite shops given a chance. (Suits me very well )

22) Girl is highly conscious about the social and political scenario happening around. (She can be a good politician!! )

23) Girl is very forgetful when it comes to remembering dates.

24) Girl is naturally beautiful and gorgeous. Doesn’t put on too much of a make up. She doesn't take care of herself though.

25) Girl gets these weird dreams which can be related to anything under the sun. Highly imaginative. (I get embarrassed sometimes once she starts imagining things :) !!)


Well the boy and my friends have said it all ... thank you guys.. you are the best .... mmuuaahh :) ....


Anyone reading this can take up the tag.. all the best finding 25 things guys :) ...