Happy Diwali!
Time flies! Its been a long time since i wrote anything, its not that nothing has been happenning, lots of things happen,but its jsut my somberithanam that wont allow me to write anything.:)
I think last tiem i left in vijayadasami, this time again its come up to some festival and bakshanams:).
Well inbetween we went to Florida and Ithaca, that is sudhar went to Florida on official trip and I went to Ithaca to spned the time with Sushi, she came and went to India and again she is back in Ithaca now.We went to Puerto Rico, for a small 4 day vacation celebrating our anniversary(sudhar has taken charge of writing a detailed weblog of our vacation),and last but not the least Diwali sweets and bakshanams.
Well The moment we started from Puerto Rico my mind was full of shoprite, diwali sweets,laundry etc. The moment we entered the house I started with my own stuff and dragged Sudhar to shoprite in the evening.
Once we were back from tuesday morning I was busy in my own world of bakshanams.
I decided to make a few,of the lot and my favourite mixture.After making few of the items I suddenly realised that for Deepavali the main dish is the “marundhu”.Now what to do, its not India where i can rush to the store and buy marundhu podi or the ingridients and the best part was that I have never made marundhu and i didnt know what all the ingreddients were.While chatting Sridhar came online and I was telling him about my marundhu problem, he imd suggesting making powder of anasin,analgin and gelusil and giving it to people :).
But I had decided about doing it, so I took meenakshi ammal cooking book and started searching for the receipe luckily I found it:) One step cleared.The next was the ingredients, I didnt even knew half of them but luckily as the book was in english it also said the name in english, I searched in google :),and realised that few of the spices are there in my spice holder.Its been a part of my kitchen for long and Sudhar has made fun of me so many times saying that I dont use them.Well this was the time i had to use them.I took the spices from them and started making a paste,my mixie didnt help me, it didnt come out to be a very good paste but bearable.Finally in the evening my Marundhu was also ready.I felt so good .Something to feel proud about :)))))))))))))))))))) .
We went to the temple for diwali, me sudhar and sushi and then sushi started and reached Ithaca safely.Wished Priya as it was her bday on diwali. :)
Weather has been getting bad day by day,dont know what to do….well may be there is nothing I can do about the weather :).
Have fun
Happy Diwali