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Today's meal:

Noodles and a kind of sauce made from carrots, capsicum, garlic, chilies and tomato ketchup. Interesting to make and eat.

The view outside from my bedroom's window looked great today thanks to all the fancy firework.

Happy new year!

Feel-good cooking

I am not talking about feel-good meals, though today's meal does fall into that category:

Chapati and tomato 'gojju'. A friend of mine famously hates this word, along with the name 'Pushpa', no one knows why. I think Pushpa is a perfectly good name and the Gojju is one of the best dishes ever invented on earth, even if the name itself doesn't sound so great.

What's in a name? that which we call Gojju,

By any other name would taste as great!

(Ahem, sorry Bill! <-link)

I felt good cooking today because the smell of the cooking food reminded me of familiar smells back home.

Yesterday's meal however was a big disappointment and a tragedy in itself, of more epic proportions than the afore mentioned R&J.

Upma. The best dish if made well and a horror story if not. I am convinced that my method of making was perfect, but the rava used to make it was not too good - a little too old probably. I had to camouflage the taste of the upma with large spoonfuls of pickle. The severe shock of the episode held me and kept me from writing here.

If you haven't already noticed, I am feeling very theatrical today.

Swimming in oil

I didn't know it at that time, but my potato fry started out with a few spoons of oil more than what it required:

Chapaties and baby potato fry.

Today I came home to my dear plant drooping to the ground. It had been fine in the morning when I left home. It is a "peace lily" and I read online that it was supposed to be watered once a week. I was watering it more often than that, so I decided to stop. I guess I stopped its water supply longer than needed. I was so terribly scared that my plant was going to die. Just an hour later my plant was almost back to its normal state! If I had taken a photograph of it every minute, I could have made a great animation out of it.