Sometimes parents say the darndest thing. One fine evening I asked them if they would like some tea,
Dad: Ek Ghoont (one sip)
Mom: Do Ghoont (two sips)
Me:
So I brewed half a cup of black tea and offered it to them. “Take however many
There’s a raised ground in our backyard that I was planning to turn into a vegetable patch for long, but never got around to do anything about it. Only three weeks have passed since my parents’ arrival and there’s already Rajma (Kidney beans), along with seedlings of a whole bunch of coriander, mint, some kind of green leafy vegetable growing in this patch. It was a good idea to give my Mom her own space, else given her excitement and passion for gardening, she would have started growing garlic and onions right in my beautiful Peace Lily and succulent pots.
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Sydney weather has been extremely moody off late. Just a few weeks back it deliberately tried to kill us – through a hailstorm causing massive damage to property and life. Fortunately, my suburb received the smaller sized ones, like these,
else the ones that fell on other suburbs were the size of golf balls (pictured below: source – 9News)
But the pelting was enough to cause 5 major holes in our sunroom. The strange thing about this hailstorm was that after the first pelting, it returned for a second time after a gap of about half an hour. Now every time it rains, we have a massive leak in the outdoor area. Sigh!!
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On days when the sky is sober, it turns pink and throws in a rainbow too.
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I am totally in love with my Food Robot – Rotimatic. You would have already seen me going gaga over it on Instagram. But this gadget has truly saved me hours of labor and frustration, mostly because I have zero Roti (flatbread) making skills. All you need to do is add water, oil and wheat flour in the containers, select the thickness and number of Rotis from the console and let Rotimatic do its magic. 🙂
Do you remember the time I tried to pass off frozen Rotis when in-laws were at my place? 😛 Well, now I am all prepared whenever they arrive. Last Sunday we prepared a big batch of 20 Puris for brunch.
Imagine rolling 20 Puris manually!!
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crazy weather nowadays but i haven’t experience a hail storm before.
Wow there are a so many things to like in this post ! The hail stones, the sky and obviously the batch of Pooris !
The hail looks shit scary – thank god you are not hurt by it! We had some hailstorms here in India as well and they were quite crazy enough to render an arid region into looking like a winterland
The roti make has got to be the craziest thing I have seen – it must indeed be a huge bliss.
As usual your writing is whacky and witty leaving me with bags of smiles 🙂