All I need is some spice

Well, when something is leftover and when I don't wanna waste any food and I am bored to have it again, first thing occurs to me is to get creative and at the same time create something which is eye appealing and good enough to taste...

So all this happened yesterday, when there were about 7 left over Idlis... I was in no mood to eat them as is...and definitely not for Idly upma which most of them do - with Idli leftovers.. and no Fried Idly - as this is too oily, din't wanna go on the other side of healthy scale.... i wanted something spicy! :)

With all these thoughts revolving around my head while I was on the train back from office... Bang On - My brain struck - "What about Idli chat", okie now I started thing about the things needed and the execution,
cross checked if I had all there at home to make this one and it was a big Yes! I could not wait longer to get home asap and get cracking with it...

so here is how it could be made, of course you could customise as you need... :)

Ingredients/stuff needed:
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2-3 spoons of Pudina + Chilli paste ( this can be made by grinding a bunch of pudina + 4-5 green chillies + half spoon of salt )
1 spoon of Lemon juice
Salt to tast
Finely chopped onions - 1/2 cup
Finely chopped Tomatoes - 1/2 cup
Finely chopped coriander - 2 spoons
Tamrind Chutney - 2 spoons (I used readymade chutney - you can use tomato ketch up instead)
Roasted peanuts - 2 spoons
Spicy sev/ deep fried gram flour noodles - 2-3 spoons
3 spoons of sunflower/vegetable oil


Method:
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* Cut the Idlis into small cubes
* Mix the Pudina chilli paste and 1/2- 1 spoon of lime juice + 2 pinches of salt with the chopped idli pieces and allow it to marinate for about 10-15 min
* Heat a pan with 2-3 spoons of oil 
* add the marinated idli pieces - keep tossing them - make sure it gets roasted on the edges and on surface.
* After about 5 min, spread them on plate - as a layer of idli cubes
* Now sprinkle it with chooped tomatoes, onions and coriander
* Dazzle the tamrind chutney on the top 
* Sprinkle the spicy sev with the roasted peanuts on top

And there it goes ready to be munched! :) 
It was a good chat indeed!

Give it a go! and you might like it too :)
  

Big BANG!!!

It was a bright sunny afternoon, after giving my 4th standard final examination paper for Math...
I came home hurriedly, so that I can get some quick nap and start preparing for the next exam which was for Science - my fav subjects... as soon as I came home, removing my shoes, asked amma to make some curd rice n feed me as I change...
as usual got a bit of gyan for washing my hands and legs before I eat and a little bit of conversation went on as how I did the Math paper... I had done it pretty well ;), finally mom fed me the curd rice, the way I wanted.. :) and eventually took a nap...

All that was in my mind was to give the best in the next exam and get above 95 on 100... hot sunny afternoon, after having curd rice, anybody can guess how a 4th standard kid would feel when taking a nap under the fan on a bare floor with a pillow...
I felt something churning in my stomach.. as if something was forcing itself... it did hurt a bit here and there, I started screaming running to my mom saying that my stomach was hurting badly... in no time I was having a puking sensation.. wanted to throw up,
but what I found was a tree coming out of my throat I don't know from where the hell.. but yes it did have some leaves, branches... I could not close my mouth, all I had to do and I did was to look up and the tree never stopped, it grew and grew until the ceiling, the pain in my stomach increased and increased...I was sweating... I could not scream nor talk nor cry,
I was about to faint... the worst of all was, my mom being so calm, merrily in her kitchen doing some stuff...
- least bothered about the tree which is growing from her daughter's stomach, which is gonna kill her in few mins?!! :(

I realised that there was nobody at home, I was feeling very hot, almost that God has given me 2-3 mins to spare before I finally bid a big goodbye without giving my 4th Standard exams...I was feeling so bad for me - almost in tears, that I would never be able to become a big girl, do wonders - drive my dad's TVS 50, use an ink pen... wear high healed shoes ... they were all my tiny dreams
how could he do that to me - why cant he cut the tree and save me...
I could not scream, to bring mom's attention, nor I could walk... I donno if I was doing a balancing act .. to balance that bloody big tree... All I could see was this tree had reached the ceiling, no I did not see any birds on it chirping ... I could see some fruits... FRUITS!! Yeah.. fruits.. Now I remember, what a grave mistake I had done to myself.. indeed a grave one!
Oh no, the worst thing ever, I had swallowed an Orange seed the previous day...and I remember mom and dad and granny saying that there would be an Orange tree growing in my stomach!!! :(

Alas, I know nobody can save me now...the tree is so huge, oh wait... an orange falling from the tree right on my face...!!!
"Ouch!"...
I eventually collapsed and felt a big bang on face... I donno what had happened...Almost got up all at once sweating, and in tears, I was in a utter state of shock... to see a plastic ball which had hit my face, by my neighbour aunt's 5 year old son who had come to my home to play with me :P

Thank God there was no tree from my mouth...It was just a DREAM!!! I could now scream, I could walk, I can give my exams .. I could do everything!!! :) :) LOL... I got back my life - to do what I wanted to, what I had dreamt of... :)
Started jumping and dancing and went to mom and hugged and kissed her tightly... she was so much confused as what happend to me and why I was so funny... well I know what really happened ;)


Ha ha what wonderful days those were, full of innocence ... I still remember, from that very day, I was so careful while having fruits, made sure I had removed all the seeds before eating them and I never used to eat grapes which had seeds...
My sub-conscious is so strong, even now when I eat any fruit, there is an alert from my brain :P :P, 
I happened to remember this while having some punnet cherries yesterday night...!

Did it actually find me?? :( am running away!

Well you are all gonna have hell of a laugh at me, after reading this... its the nastiest thing which ever happened to me...

before I say what really happened, lemme ask you how it feels when there is a small bug or an insect next to you... how scared are you? or how cautious do you become?

Ok, what if it looks litte scary, something like a black spider or a thorny little worm, spiky cockroaches... I just feel sick!!!

I know all are creatures like us, but just cant stand them when I sense them approaching me, I always feel that I have an inbuilt antenna and whenever something like tat comes my way I go bloody crazy and always wanna get rid of it, either I make sure to grab it and throw out of the window or smack it down...

I have also thought about the sins I would be committing murdering all those spooky lil ones..! gosh! what to do It bloody freaks me out!!!

So it was a summer evening, for about a week was so keen to do some yoga and eventually managed to book a class that day.. I was doing all the asanas well, trying to be perfect... 

I wasn't perfect,but managed to be nearly there.. it was a session for about 2 hours.. time just rolled by, it was the end of the session, the instructor asked to go to shavasana - where you would lay down like a dead body without any motions, but just concentrating on the inhaling and exhaling of the breath... 

I was there in that position for about 2 - 3mins... was feeling really good about the whole session, by the time I was thinking ah! watta session...have attained the inner peace, 

no less than a min, I could sense something whacky in my ear... I thought it was my looped earring managed to get it out...but I could still sense something buzzing..

and there I was wild making all sorts of actions digging into my ear hole trying get that thing out of my ear... and it never came out.. I ran around the yoga hall.. 

everybody started staring if I had gone mad! Yes I was mad with my ear.. by then I had realised it was something crawling... sneaking down...disgusting feeling ever...

I knew its not gonna be easy to get it out, I almost ruptured my eardrums by digging n shovelling with my lil finger... nothing worked out, packed my bags and left the class... 

It was almost 9 at night, no GP clinics are open until then, all kinds of thoughts spun around my head while on the way home... what if the insect enters my brain n start nibbling it away...

Ghosh, I even thought of calling 999 - emergency service... but then managed to call a GP who was available - and she insisted to pour some oil and allow the insect to float.. and beyond that she could not help me...

All I had to do was to wait until the next morning to get the lil imp out of my ear... I wanted to get rid of it very very badly!

There was no end to tantrums - I cried and sobbed and my husband was helpless - he did all what he could do.. I finally managed to  get some sleep... 

the first thing in the morning I did was rushed to the local GP... and finally got the nasty rouge out of my ear... haa.. watta relief! 

Truly the utmost inner peace... no yoga gave me this!! Phew

The aftermath is so much that, I walk around very cautiously and am super responsive of any flying objects/insects and ants... this morning had the living room's window open and bumble bee buzzed in - seeming to chase me, and thats it,

I closed both my ears and started running all around and swearing at it... my husband warned if you keep swearing it might get into your mouth.. - 

I was zip locked and covered the blanket around me and sat quietly... 

Even when I sleep I have my ears closed one goes with the pillow and on the other my palm rests assuring me not to worry! bloody hell I'd rather ask my husband to gift me a pair of ear plugs... I still go mad, when I here a buzz around my ear!

The bug has finally and actually found me... I hate it!!!