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The title of this post could also be - next part of “The moment”…

My friends were asking, why I am not continuing with my blog, why there are no posts. Well, apart from the time constraint, it is also to do with the single track mind state…. why single track? Read on….

She came into the world, after a long wait - 5 days after due date. Guess, she was quite well settled inside and had no plans to come out!! It was another great moment when I saw her first time… when I forgot all the pains I went thru labor. Life was thrilled, but different, difficult and very new. There was learning all single day, each single moment. Though all possible situations with babies are available over internet and we “googled” most of them by then, but still we realized the small tiny life was the best teacher. Sometime in middle of night her colic used to upset us or sometime we felt helpless when we did not know why she is crying…

And then she grew and we grew too as parents. Life shifted from proactive nappy change and feeding to something more reactive and demanding. Life started revolving around her. It’s her building blocks, her crayons, her dolls, her TV shows, her rhymes, her, her and her... and we seemed never got tired of it. We have less and less time left for us. She does not allow us to complete any discussion. She wants to be the part of our each moment. A single utter of pain, and she showers all her love and kisses. She even cheers up us for anything we do. She comforts us by saying “chinta maat karo mamma, sab theek hoga” < don’t worry mom, everything will be fine>

But we know this phase will pass soon, she will grow up, she will have her own world, friends. She will not search the nook of my arm to rest herself…

She gave us all the happiness and bliss that any parent can ask for...we only pray to God that she gives us more reasons to live, every single day...we love you

Bon appetite – with fish curry (sorshe, posto dea rui maach)

It's been little more than one year I have been away from my blog. A busy life with our daughter, office, and finally relocating to another country has kept me busy all these days
My 'almost' new found passion for cooking is bringing me back to blog again

Its fun to browse for recipes. Over the period of time I have accumulated many recipes from my mom, mom in law, my all aunts, friends and last but not least from different recipes posted on net. So I thought why not share some of those wonderful recipes for all. What can be a better topic than food after all!!

I am not sure though that this blog will turn up to a cooking blog, who knows!!

Patience is not a virtue that I have in abundance, so the recipes which I try are generally very easy and quick to make.

This particular recipe I watched in a cooking show on TV. I have already tried this and shared the recipe with my mom as well. She has also tried this and both of them (my mom and dad) loved it. This is quite a rare occasion when my mom has learnt a recipe from me and tried, it’s mostly other way always J

Ingredients

1. Rui Maach (Rohu Piece) - 6 pieces
2. Yellow Mustard - one and a half table spoon
3. Posto (Poppy seed) - one and a half table spoon
4. Curd - Two Table spoon
5. Green Chili - as per taste
6. Turmeric powder - One+half Tea spoon
7. Salt - as per taste
8. Mustard Oil - For Shallow Fry + 1 Table spoon
9. Onion - Sliced as round Piece ( 4 to 5 piece)
10. Tomato - Sliced as round Piece ( 4 to 5 piece)
11. Coriander Leaves - Chopped - a handful

 Step 1

Wash the fish pieces, apply salt and turmeric and coat well. Heat mustard oil in nonstick kadai and shallow fry the fish. Keep aside the fried fish pieces

Step 2

Grind mustard, poppy seed and green chili with pinch of salt to make a paste. Use as less of water as you can.

Step 3

Mix curd and half tea spoon of turmeric powder with the above paste.

Step 4

In a micro oven safe bowl arrange the fish pieces in a single layer. Pour the paste over the fish pieces.  Remember to coat well. Top this with 1 Table spoon of mustard oil

Step 5

Put in micro mode for 6 minutes

Step 6

Take out the bowl. Garnish with the Onion, Tomato and coriander leaves and put back to micro oven for another 2 minutes

Serve hot with white rice.

Note: If you do not have Rohu available, you can try with Telapia. Also in case mustard oil is not there you can use white vegetable oil.

The Moment...

I will never forget the day - 12, Oct, 2008, it was a Sunday. It was a beginning to a new stage of our life. 7 years, of togetherness - some very good time, some just good time, some bad time, but together always. There were times when both of us felt horrible about each other, and then there were moments when we felt each other the reason of our life. I used to think there could never be more precious moments than those. I was unaware that, one priceless moment was yet to arrive; the moment which would completely change our lives!!!!!

12^th Oct, 2008 the day when I first realized that I was pregnant, I will never be able to forget that moment. It will be an incomplete expression if I said I was very happy……. there was a mixed feeling, a felling of excitement, a feeling of completeness - felt our relationship had reached a different level altogether. Needless to say I was a little scared and skeptical, thinking of the new responsibility and if we would be able to take care of it in totality? 9 months is quite a long time, we need to take lot of extra care.

However, after the first bouts of joy and anxiety, the next thing that came to our mind was, we needed to go to Wockhardt Hospital the following day for check up. The first Ultra Sound scan, formally called as “Confirmation Scan”. Indeed, once you see, will you believe. One tiny thing (yes it looked like just an object then) was moving inside me. It brought tears to my eyes. One life was rooted in me…… S/he would develop slowly, S/he would always be there with me, S/he had become the part of me. First glimpse of our baby took the both of us to some other world. The doc then said “did you hear the heart beat”?  Heart beat for this small tiny life?????? Yes, yes…..Seeing and listening is indeed believing.  We finally brought ourselves to believe that we were going to be parents soon, or do I say we already are parents…..virtually J