FoodAthon!!

If the love of life was the food that we ate then food shall be by thought this post and I post this in memory of the yummy meals that followed each other to this moment of sheer joy of writing this piece!!

All started a joyful Tuesday afternoon when my sister Roopa and my nephew Veer were expected home to stay with us for the rest of the week… Oh what a wonderful beginning for it came with a surprise… Roopa invited me to meet up with her at a restaurant close to our home called The Tibet Kitchen!!! On the menu was Fried Wantons, Momos, Hot and Sour soup and noodles… you think this would be enough… well we ordered another 2 plates of wantons and were almost in the frame of mind of getting in another plate of momo’s till there wasn’t too much space in the stomach… may I add that this was ONLY the beginning.

My nephew Veer so liked the lady who was serving that he kept looking for her and smiling… ha ha ha ha… at 4 years and 4 months even Veer knows how to appreciate a pleasant looking woman… most men need to begin to take lesson’s from children… I guess!!

That evening I decided to conquer a new fear… I wondered if I could actually take readymade masala and make a lip smacking dish that would force the family to indulge in some more food …. and so… we got back home… ordered some chicken and decided that dinner would be SHAAN CHICKEN KORMA I wish I had taken a picture of the empty box of the masala to give you a personal reason to find it at a store close to you and try it for yourself… super easy and super tasty!! All it took was frying of onions… chicken…. dahi and an empty stomach to fill… awesome!!! So, before we three sister’s went to sleep on Tuesday night… we’d filled ourselves to the brim and slept in satisfaction of knowing that we’d eaten too much!!

Wednesday afternoon I don’t think we were ready to eat at all… there was way too much to sleep over from the previous night and so… it was AVOID food… or fill in the gaps with some chai and buns… till the evening… I guess… except for little Veer who gormendised on chicken and eggs all of us were quite happy simply finishing off the yummy korma from the night before… and on day two… it tasted even better…. WOW… my mouth is watering at the thought of almost a week back!!!

Wednesday night, Prema and Mom left for Prema’s house… to begin the planned trip to Ajmer… and our food binge continued… we had friends over for dinner… Ashok and his brother Alok… would assault a new receipe… another of the packeted wonders… it was such a pleasure to cook and within a matter of minutes the house was flavourful. Before Roopa could come to the kitchen and ask if I needed help the Biryaani was ready and my mouth had already begun watering. In the meanwhile both our friends arrived and the gossiping began… it had been a while since we’d all found time to hang out together and truly truly communicate!! add the Biryaani to it… and well we headed for a feast… had I known I was going to write this post… I would’ve clicked pictures to upload!!!

Thursday morning it was the South Indian special … Upma… which yes… ALL OF US ate again like we’d been starved the previous night!!! Light only so that we’d have something more inspired for dinner!!

Thursday dinner time: Hot and Sour DeeStyle pork with Noodles… another treat!! Thankfully we were only two of us to stuff our faces fully… Veer isn’t too much of a Porky boy… prefers the noodles and so three of us sat down to finish off the food we only saw for a while till 3 bits of pork were sent straight back to the fridge for namesake so we wouldn’t have to admit to finishing 1/2 kg pork between the two of us!!

Friday morning… and even though we’ve been cribbing that we’ve been over eating… Roopa requested for the famed ALOOO parathas my maid makes… they’re yummy to say the least… and way to yummy to not call them a feast…. Hot Chai… Butter and Parathas… this meal seals the deal for the day and both of us got busy thinking about the night!!!! GOSH HOW MUCH FOOD CAN WE THINK ABOUT!!!! I guess the two of us were falling short of ideas on food… the next step had to be great muslim food again… especially since we discovered that we were going to have friends over again tonight… Shieanne the fourth Rao sister by choice and Ashok!!!!

We decided to get a little adventurous since Shieanne too has the LETS GO attitude like us Rao girls!!! We decided to head to a muslim area in Jamia called Zakhir Nagar where you get the world’s best Nihari I’ve ever tasted… Even though its a place I’d rather not sit around to dine at…. the food is too awesome to miss!!! And so… we hired an auto that would not only take us there… he agreed to wait while we gathered food ;) and we set off in the quest for food!!! Here’s what we bought…. Nihari, Korma, Fried Chicken and tikkas and ofcourse the Khamiri rotis to go with it… We headed home too hungry to wait for Ashok to arrive and began hogging on the chicken… which might I add… is as finger licking good as KFC minus the skin ;) Wonder if the original KFC recipe was from these streets!!! ;) An hour later Askok arrived and the 4 of us chatted till the wee hours of the morning… knowing that all we wanted was to have a lot of food and a lot of talk… not surprising that Shieanne knocked off early enough to miss the main course but promised she would wake up and taste the masaala!!!!

Saturday…. well … the Grand finale of week in food that left us FILLED TO THE BRIM… had to be a visit to the famed Andhra Bhawan!!! Thali and Mutton fry… what else could one ask for… filled to the brim…. satiated… surprised… and super super happy to have enjoyed all meals without giving up… wondering if we could possibly launch a “while I was eating” show for Indian women…. and have people invite us over to their homes for us to taste their cooking and write about it… How awesome would that be!!!

I’m headed back to the kitchen right NOW to cook up and awesome meal for Mom and I… wondering if the best idea would be to keep in simple ;)