Saturday with Pav-Bhaji

Its been a while since I posted a blog related to food and related stuff. I accept and Italian food is my weakness, but you can't beat Indian food at its best. I started to like cooking when I was in US, initially it was a burden but slowly with headphones on and different experimentation (that include the incident when I almost set my apartment of fire) I started to enjoy cooking. My part time work at Rollins helped my in developing skills in International food and at the same time was lucky to get roomies who liked the variety in food and accepted my experiments with food! 

After coming back to India, its on and off with food. As I believe to cook the right food, you need right mood... after joining VIT, I again got a chance to get into cooking as its a good stress reliever in the evening when you have heavy day and need something to charge yourself. I have been doing some regular stuff for a while with occasional changes in the menu, and most of those changes are on Saturdays and Sundays, today its a good chance to get into cooking as its all day power cut and there is nothing much to do... planning for Pav Bhaji. As my cooking range is electric so have to wait till evening 6 before start cooking. I love making Pav Bhaji as people like it the way I cook, and today there is no one but me to enjoy it so its little odd but let it be... lets get on and get going... (I will post some pics as soon as it will be done)

P.S.- Some pics...

I know its a weird post from my side, but sometimes its fun to do stuff like this :)

Its all about food...

Its food time in United States, US is rich in all aspects except food. Specially when you are in a small town like Columbia. When I was coming here, I was a bit concern about the food. Being a vegi you probably have very few options to eat outside. If you are born and bought up in a city like Indore which is famous for the food culture, definitely you feel like in a starving hell.

But, its an old saying "There is a will , there is a way", struggling for a good food for first six months finally I got a way to meet the taste of the typical Indian food, after getting a new Indorian room-mate we finally came up with the solution of the weekend parties, where we can try some of the unknown cooking skills sprouting in us. The results started coming in, I was shocked to know that I am a born pav-bhaji king, along with a good chola making skills.

One of the memorable time was diwali dinner, just a few names would be enough to tell the fun- Pav Bhaji, Kheer, Tomato Soup, Onion Pakoda, Potato Pakoda, and very rarely available Masala Papad... 10 guys, working for 4 hours... food took the whole diwali evening, from 9:00 PM to 1:00 AM, but was an amazing experience having that late night dinner. Its a great royalty cooking food here, you get most of the things ready... just need to use some of the instincts and some of the skills... and amazing food is waiting for you there!!!

So have fun and you are most invited to the special roti (chapati) festival the winter break!!!