I can finally write a longer post about my cooking skills, now that I have been living in Bangalore for a full 4 months. Now, that does not mean I have started cooking on a daily basis etc, but still, as they say, something's better than nothing, right? :P
We got a gas in our house within 2 weeks of shifting in. That happened basically because my mother had come to visit us! We had expected that whenever we get a gas, the first thing that we would mostly prepare would be maggi, however, (again since my mother was around), it happened to be kheer.
After mom left we stuck to the basics - maggi, omelette and the occassional aloo ki sabji. In fact even this was restricted to weekends - weekdays, we used to get a dabba! Then suddenly one day, we got absolutely bugged with eating potatoes for 5 straight days in our dabba, and decided to discontinue it. Then started our real tryst with cooking!
Here's a list of what all we experimented with - aloo parathe (for first timers, they turned out real well), pav bhaji (all time favourite), pulav, regular varan-bhat-batatyachi bhaji (yum!! i miss that!!! ), pasta (that was Manasi's culinary expertise!), modak (for ganesh chaturthi - that gave a real shock to my mom - that I even thought of attempting something like that :P ), chhan garam garam kanda bhaji (and we ate them with coffee on a rainy evening on our terrace - perfect :D ), multiple types of sandwhiches (when I say multiple, I mean multiple - right from butter-sauce-lays, to cheese-chilli-garlic, to veg-cheese), manchurian with fried rice (courtesy Ashoo), green curry chicken (that turned out awesome too - I guess beginners luck counts :P ), etc etc. (Ok the etc was just to give an impression that the list is much longer than it seems!!
We have also managed to actually cook food for as many as 8-10 people atleast 3-4 times, and we even made 2.5l of masala doodh for kojagiri!
Anyways, done for the day, more on this (and Bangalore), later..
