My experiments with cooking...

This happened 2 years back when I had travelled to Melbourne for the first time.
I was staying in a 2 bedroom aptmt along with my colleagues. We were 4 of us staying together.

I was quite new to the world of cooking. As in I knew to prepare maggie, and I wud prepare my own variety of dishes but that wud be served only for me. Never had experimented on others.
But now I had to cook, or atleast help my friends in cooking. One night we returned late from office. It was around 10pm or so. And we had decided to cook chapathi and some sabji. Shilpa my roomie there was an expert in preparing chapatis and Maya another roomie of mine was an expert in cooking delicious south indian food.

It was 10 30 pm and the cooking session started in full swing. we were preparing chapatis and there was lot of smoke coming out of the frying pan as we were cooking. Suddenly one of us saw the red lights blinking in the smoke detector. And all of us shouted in terror. Coz if the smoke detector turns on, then, fire alarm would ring and the fire rescue squad will come and if incase they dont find any fire then we may have to pay sme hefty penalty for false alarm. This is wat was told to me. We were so scared about it.. that all of us took the vesseles to the balcony and tried to put off the smoke.. We tried all possible methods.

That was a sight to see.. And then after some time we returned back to kitchen only to realize that the indicator keeps blinking once in a while.. and we simply were worried about the whole incident.

Now when I sit back n think about this i start laughing thinking how we were duped by the smoke detectors.

Rendezvous with an Egg!!!

Let me begin my blogs with the stupidest thing I have ever done - My rendezvous with an egg !!!

This happend some years back when I was in my 11th std. Lemme tell you one thing I am a pure vegeterian by diet.

So here it goes.. One day my friend Tejaswini (Teju) and I were walking to a grocery shop. Teju wanted to buy an egg. She had plans to apply mehendi on her hair and she wanted to mix an egg as it is a good conditioner. Here goes the conversation between Teju and I.

Pulse: So teju why are u buying an egg?
Teju: To mix with mehendi and apply to hair.
Pulse: So what in egg do u mix?
Teju: The white part
Pulse: And what about the yellow thing?
Teju: Yellow, I generally dont mix coz it gives a bad smell
Pulse: Ok...so u dont mix the yellow thing .. its only the white part which is to be used?
Teju: Yes
Pulse : Ok..

N then we reached the groceries shop and Teju bought 2 eggs.
One saturday morning, I decided to apply mehendi on my hair. I was quite excited about it as I had planned to mix egg as well this time. Never in my life I had experimented with an egg. I asked my mom if I can do so. My parents being very strict orthodox brahmins straightly denied my request. N then I started off with my pursuading skills. Finally she agreed. I happily went off to the groceries shop and bought an egg. I came home n directly went to the kitchen. Mom stared at me and started shouting at me for bringing an egg to the kitchen. So I had to run to the backyard of my house.

Here I was at the back yard of my home with my mehendi contents mixed in a vessel and an egg in another bowl. Now starts the exciting moment. I dont know how to break an egg.. I remembered seeing some stunts in movies were the heros try to break open the egg and prepare an omlett. So now I also try to do the same thing. I break the egg with some hard substance . N then I pour all the yellow contents down the drain. Now I crush the egg shell and mix it with my mehndi contents. It was really tough crushing them I say . And then now my mehendi mixture is ready to be used.

By this time, my mom comes to check out what I am doin. she saw the egg shell mixed in the mehendi and she starts screaming at me. I am so dumb founded. I was like mom.. see you should be feeling great about your daughter coz she has not taken any help from you but she has managed to cut open the egg and mix the egg white with the mehendi.

Mom bursts out laughing then saying Pallavi egg shell is not egg white.. Egg white is a liquid inside the egg. I totally disagreed with her. I was like mom see there are only two parts in egg. the yellow thing and the white thing. Teju told me not to add yellow thing coz its stinks. so now i have added the white thing to my mehendi. That is the egg shell . And mom if you can see, go to the gardens were there are rose plants planted. They would have mixed the soil with egg shell
and not with the other contents of egg. At this, mom couldnt control her laugh. All she could do was laugh at her daughters stupidity.

But I still dint believe my mom. For me what I did was write. And I so very much wanted to prove to my mom the same. I called up some of my frends and I asked them whats an egg white. They all told me that it is the liquid inside the egg :( By this time they got to know my story and all bursted out laughing.

And then I was titled ' Egg shell'

How stupid I was I say [:)]

My first blog...

October 31st 2007... Miss Pallavi Rao writes her first blog.

I have been planning to do this since a long time .. but now, finally, today without any further post poning here I am writing my first blog. 'A window to my world'

In my blogs I wil write about some of the memorable days in my life, some of the stupidest things I have tried, lessons I have learnt, my wins, my loss, my crushes.. in short its gonna be about me and the world around me..

So here I am presenting to you - A window to my world.

Its just the beginning.... Keep watching this space