Coconut Mint Sauce

Masala Dosa served with Coconut Mint Sauce

Its quarantine and everyone is busy in shaping their inner flair by either cleaning, cooking, painting, dancing, reading and maybe chilling with their loved ones around. I personally think that these days aren't any different for those who are introvert, teleworkers, and especially for our MOMs. Since the lockdown days, I feel happy when I go through all the ongoing hashtags and trends and see that people these days are busy showcasing their life either by simply sharing their household activities or cooking skills or sharing some of their hygiene and self care advice.

Before the lock down, we all were playing our bit in household activities along with our professional obligation. When everyone's Maa works all day, night selflessly for the bunch of mains to fulfill our basic to luxury demands. Also, when housewives perpetually carry out responsibilities of their family, when papa or husband look after us by either working hard at professional front or checking the IN and OUTS of ration and grocery needs, when our elderly of house take care of our mental being by simply giving us a hair oil massage or comforting and motivating us to do something positive and inspiring, when the little ones of our house keeps us busy in some craft or playful activities, ah! And how can I forget ME (US) when we used to take a weekend break after all the daily events and stop at a beauty spa for the self care regime but always in a hurry.

Semolina Upma

This is my another semolina recipe, previously, I had shared the recipe of Semolina pancake means uttapam! Upma is the quick and easy peasy recipe on my blog, so far. As it is said, don't judge a book by its cover, I think, the same goes with food! So please don't make that awful face by just looking at the color of the food. I think all food that has a tint of white always taste better than the spicy red or appealing yellow one's. If I can name a few, take it simple vegetable or chicken pulav, white chicken kadhai, idlis, dosa's, white dhokla's or some non-desi food like Chinese fried rice and noodles, creamy white sauce-pasta, mashed potatoes, and so many more! See, hence proved!

Can Bitter Gourd taste Sweet?? YES!!!

Since childhood, the only vegetable I enjoyed the most has been bitter gourd or karela is what we call. As soon as we hear the name karela! memory gets populated with a sense of its smell and taste of its bitterness. Eww! this is the only expression I have ever come across when it came to this particular veggie. I remember, nobody in our house used to like this one. It was only me and mama who used to relish every bite of it. Hashim always felt hesitant about this underdog veggie. But not anymore! one of the best things about our relationship is the diversity in tastes due to the difference in our cultures. On mama's side, the influences were veggies and little sweet versions of food. And his side, he takes pride in his pakistani cuisine and there were often differences in the name and etymology of certain dishes, for instance, hashim would call scrambled egg as anda ghotala, and I would call it egg bhurji and hashim would say, well it's the Indian version.