COMFY FOOD & NOSTALGIA

Which food, when you eat it, instantly transports you to childhood?

I don’t know when I became madly in love with one dish that my mother made. Even today when she makes that, my eyes gleam in happiness. It’s nothing but Parippu curry(Moong dal).

Let me take you through it. The parippu is very soft after cooking and the flavours are mild but well balanced.

Now imagine you have a  cut banana leaf spread over the table. Put two spoons of cooked Matta rice over it.  Make a small well in the middle of the heap of rice. Add the sizzling hot parippu to it and then add a teaspoon of ghee to it. I am salivating just by describing. Take a pappadam and break it over the parippu and mix everything well and enjoy your food.

Enough foodgasm for today; have transported me well to a lot of childhood memories.

Until I see you with another dish, later, bye.

Dreamy like a Bollywood movie

There was a little girl,
Who used to run back home after school.
Take away her mom’s sarees and dupattas,
Drape around herself in quirky ways ,
Inspired by movies ;
And danced out loud
Even if there were no songs;
All secretly,
till everyone comes back.

Somedays she would collect all the pearls from her broken necklaces, and redesign her own colourful pearl strings.
Those tiny little arms used to be covered with multiple dozens of bangles, even above the elbow,
while she danced in excitement.


But those were precious to only herself, that rarely went outside the four walls of the home.
Bound within herself was a fear of being judged due to the intensity of her dreams.

She was quirky, funky, wild-spirited and rebellious.

And she still is,
With more Grit to Break Walls….