May 16, 2008...12:46 am
Meme-Table Talk
Shefaly tagged me to continue this meme-
What’s your favourite table?
The table just outside my mothers kitchen where my dad and I sit and eat while she cooks and serves my favourite food. Last week when I visited her she made those wonderful stuffed paranthas with coriander and mint chutney and boondi raita. More than the food, I love to watch the satisfied look on her face when she watches me enjoy the food. That plain wooden table brings back innumerable memories from my childhood.
What would you have for your last supper?
Dahi vadas, Bedmi aloo, with suji halwa- My grandmother used to make all this for me, now that she is no more I will let my mother cook all this for me. I won’t mind eating all this high calorie food because It would be my last supper.
What’s your poison?
Tea, ice creams, Indian sweets and Dilli ki chaat.
Name your three desert island ingredients.
Water, potatoes and rice. On an island salt should not be a problem I guess.
What would you put in Room 101?
Too many things!
Which book gets you cooking?
I mostly cook from memory (whenever I cook, I don’t cook very often), and the way I saw my mother in law cook. I never bothered to enter the kitchen with my mother and grandmother around.
What’s your dream dinner party line-up?
Javed Akhtar, Former president Dr APJ Abdul Kalam, Mark Tully, Nandita Das, Priya Dutt, Jaswant Singh, Sushmita Sen, Faroukh Sheikh, Sunil Gavaskar, Ghulam Ali, Rahat Fateh Ali Khan, Jagjit Singh- too many people , the list is endless.
What was your childhood teatime treat?
Cutlets, my mother used to make.
What was your most memorable meal?
Aloo paranthas my husband made for me when I was expecting.
What was your biggest food disaster?
The first dinner I had to cook all by myself after marriage. I messed up the whole thing. My father-in-law (he was the sweetest father-in-law possible) salvaged the food and the evening by cooking it nearly all over again. We were the only two people who knew about it.
What’s the worst meal you’ve ever had?
The pizza I had at a Bangladeshi restaurant on an island called Texel.
Who’s your food hero/food villain?
My food heroines are my grandmother and my mother-in-law. Both are no more but they cooked and served with great passion.
Food villain- anybody who cooks halfheartedly.
Nigella or Delia?
I don’t understand what that means.
Vegetarians: genius or madness?
I am a vegetarian by birth. I don’t know any other way. What has vegetarianism to do with genius or madness. It is an individual choice I believe.
Fast food or fresh food?
Some fast food is really good, like idli, pizza and of course chaat the way it is made in Delhi. Other than that not only fresh but different all the time. I love variety in food.
Who would you most like to cook for?
My husband, daughters and parents.
What would you cook to impress a date?
Cooking is the last thing I would like to do to impress my date.
Make a wish.
All yummy food was low calorie.
I tag :
Amit, Lubna, Ammar, Nita, Prax, Ankur, Lallopallo.
12 Comments
May 16, 2008 at 1:16 am
Prerna: Thanks for continuing the meme.
The table at your mom’s sounds wonderful. But the table you wish to host has to be mighty big so as to accommodate so many bigwigs
May 16, 2008 at 3:39 pm
Err…is this Amit by any chance me?? Actually there are 3-4 Amits floating around, so I thought I’d better ask.
I always end up making maps of countries on unknown planets. 
Your biggest food disaster seems to be straight out of the movies. And your husband made aaloo paranthas for you? Were they round??
May 16, 2008 at 4:29 pm
Yes Amit, I have tagged you.
The aloo paranthas my husband made were round. He is a perfectionist and would have kept trying till he got them right. My biggest disaster was actually like a film story. I lived in a joint family and on that particular day my mother-in -law was out of station hence this situation was created.
Shefaly ,there were more names but space constraint prevented me from mentioning them
May 16, 2008 at 11:02 pm
Thanks for tagging me, prerna. I will see when can I do it.
Your father in law must have been a real cool guy..
The food I have eaten in some of the Indian restaurants (run by Bangladeshis) here in Montreal downtown will any day beat the pizza you had in Texel restaurant in terms of horrible food..
Unfortunately, your wish of having low calorie yummy food is not going to be true..
They say, ‘ Everything good in life is either fatty , immoral or illegal “
May 17, 2008 at 7:16 am
Is the picture from Rajasthan, I think I have seen this a long time back.
Reemas,
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May 17, 2008 at 12:44 pm
@Lallopallo: Bangladeshis run them in Montreal too? Great. Just like in the UK.
As for Prerna’s wish and your observation, I think Bon Jovi captured the essence right: “It feels so good, it’s got to be illegal” (Bad Medicine). Ha ha!
May 17, 2008 at 4:18 pm
Shefaly, do you mean Bangladeshis ruin them in Montreal too?
Lallopallo, //Everything good in life is either fatty , immoral or illegal // true yet very very sad
@Reemas, it is Tuglaqabad Fort in Delhi. You might have seen the fort. The picture was taken by me a few days ago.
May 17, 2008 at 7:33 pm
Prerna: That would have been a Freudian slip.
I have to say not all curry houses are bad here; the one in my neighbourhood is actually very good. But somehow ‘motor paneer’ does distract a bit from the expectations of a dish we all know well and closely…
May 18, 2008 at 9:50 am
Shefaly: Yes, unfortunately, they do..especially in the downtown ..the funny thing is that many non-Indians have grown up eating that sort of Indian food here and when I introduce them to Indian food closer to the real one, they dont like it that much..for instance, most of them find it strange if the butter chicken is not sweet ( in India, I never ate sweet butter chicken)….lol
But, nevertheless, few Indian restaurants run by Bangladeshis are quite decent too.. especially their Chicken Biryani and Balti chicken….The problem starts when they start attempting butter chicken, tandoori chicken and all other hardcore punjabi/north Indian/Muglai dishes..Their vegeterian stuff ( paneer dishes , dal, mixed vegetables etc) is absolutely horrible..
The quote by Bon Jovi is cool..
May 18, 2008 at 8:36 pm
Woohooo! I am tagged again
May 23, 2008 at 6:29 pm
Nice one
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