My one day long friend

Came from nowhere, a bird
at my window, one day
That bird was white
With black mark on her neck,
as she wearing a necklace

Her little shiny eyes
That innocence on her face
Staring at me straight in my eyes
As she wanted to talk
But how we going to talk
She blink, I blink and we know

Like she got all the time in the world
Free, careless bird
I fels as she was in search of me
like her, me too in no hurry

Me sitting at this end of the window
She at the other
Staring at each other for sometime

I think of giving my new guest something to eat
She starts eating rice given by me
Me too in my zone grab my pack of chips
"Will be back with water", I say to the bird
Filling small pot with water, I come
and see
Bird was gone without saying "Will come back again"

Bread on the run

Date:16th April' 2010 Weston, Florida

Yesterday while having a chit-chat with my brother over phone, he asked "What are you up to? Join some course otherwise you gonna forget everything you studied". Oh my God ! these type of discussions make me sad.

Hey wait wait wait !! Did i tell you about myself? No? You must be kidding. Well, here I am. A girl who studied computers, having experience of 2 yrs in the field of computers, got married just 4 months back, left India as my husband works here in Florida. And what I do now a days? Well this is an interesting question, which i answer like this - "come on i cook yar". And what I cook? The same daal (pulses), roti (bread), sabji (vegetables)? Hummm... YES, NO... NO, YES... you got it?

I am trying my hand on new dishes like today I made or rather I say un-covered my first dish, which I happliy named "Bread on the run", got picture of it and soon i am going to paste it on my orkut account .

You know what? Most of the things that I do for example, parasailing, rafting and blah blah, it's just for the sake of orkut. After all, I can paste picture of things and make my close friends jealous. Ha Ha Ha, otherwise these adventure things are not my cup of tea. Anyway, that's a different story.

It's been just three months here in Florida, on dependent visa, so not working. What I do everyday is just sleep, eat, read , sleep, lots of movies and ya of course I cook. Actually it's not just, but almost just. Everyone asks, "How do you pass your time?", and my father and brother who are really concerned about my career always give me this thoughtful magical sentences "What you gonna do in life?" I always get tensed hearing all these things and like always I go to my husband (who is the sweetest person on this earth) and ask him the same question, "What am I doing? What should I do?" Then he makes a fun of me and then we talk for at least 2 hours discussing my career prospectives. Well, this career discussions happens two times a month. And fun part is everytime, we discuss this, next day, I start with a new thing.

The first time, I discussed my career with my husband, I said hey I want to be a photographer (influenced by "Wake up Sid"). He said alright and bought me a camera. But I must tell you the camera got more pictures of mine than anything else. Actually I understood that I love getting clicked, so I thought of modelling but I am too old for that...

The second career option, I discussed with my husband was "Painter/cartoonist". So he bought colors and charts and sheets, and some art books from library. I made three cartoons (just faces), and a chart which is still not completed. Well, it seems hihgly unlikely that I'll touch the colors and brushes again in near future.

Then I was just thinking of becoming dancer (thanks to "Dance India dance" and the movie "Take the lead"). But now that thought is also vaporized with my new interest, "Un-covering the art of cooking in my own style". Yes, I will be a cook. No matter what if I watched "Julie and julia" last night, and you know what I just had un-covered my first dish and I am gonna name it "Bread on the run". Well, I told you this already, but just though of reminding you about my achievement. Yum, Yum. Now then, what next?

Well, its enough for today folks; have to cook dal chaval (rice) for lunch. Meet you very soon and write here as soon as I un-cover something else.

Born Appetite.

Somewhere between rasmalai and rabree

Hi Guys.How you all have been?
I told my husband yesterday to surprise me on my birthday.Did i tell you that my birthday is due coming weekend?No?.Ok.I will celebrate my birthday this Sunday.Hurray and as my husband, who just can't keep any secret from me so there is no scope of surprises on my birthday so I just thought to advice him that he can give me a surprise on my birthday.Isn't this a good idea? For your information guys i have already bought one dress,2 tops as my birthday gift from him but i don't consider these things as my birthday gifts as you know a birthday gift is one that you gets on your Birthday itself.Ha Ha. Oh my god I am so self obsessed with myself that I don't find myself any near writing about rasmalai(Desert made up of milk).Its like that today this topic will be more about my birthday(which is still a few days away) than anything else.OK OK.No more birthday talks.

So guys for last few days or say after I wrote my last topic "Bread On the run" several things kept me busy.What things you will ask now?Answer is cooking most of those things.We had two guests to come home last Sunday.I was about to make "Mushroom do pyaza(one main course dish made up of Mushroom)","Rajma-Chawal(Kidney beans and rice)","Poori" and for desert "Rasmalai" as its my favourite. As Sunday morning was about to take all my time making vegetables and "poori" so i thought to make "Rasmali" one day in advance.

It was Saturday night 10:30 pm and i started making my desert.My husband was playing games on computer.I was stirring the milk.stirring and staring,stirring and staring.Half of the things were done by 12 am but still half left.By the time my husband had already forcefully tasted half of the things and he was still wanting to taste more.I always shout on him saying "Just eat this whole thing even before its cooked" and for you information he starts eating and then laughing.You need no talks just action to make him go away.anyway.He was gone and me still on with the left portion.This time stirring the milk harder. My desert was ready by 1:00.I didn't taste it then.Placed it in the bowl and kept in refrigerator for cooling.

If you ask me the recipe i will say "Its very simple.take milk,divide it into 2 parts.Simple? then make half of the milk to boil on low heat(like the anger blow in your mind when your husband starts snoring in night) and lime water into the other half when its properly boiled.Make cheese of this lime added milk and thereafter make small balls of this cheese while let the other half still be boiling till it becomes half. Well by the way why I am telling you the recipe?.This is not a recipe blog.Go to google and youtube for the recipe guys.You will get better one.Because the way i am telling it will come out something else at the end.Like mine.

Mine Desert tasted good but it had no taste of Rasmalai.It was somewhere between rasmalai and rabree.But guys result was sweet.You know God is giving me this sign.I can hear him saying "My child you are going to be different in the field of cooking,keep going" Ha Ha.See you later guys.

Born Apetite.