I miss my mom!!

I think i just have to do it right now.. its delayed enough.. and all my blog friends tagging me left and right….. i donno i am just sitting and counting stars… i am sorry about it.

My first meme, i was found by these 'Three cook(muske)teers' Ashwini, Nabeela and GM who embarked upon their culinary adventures, and befriended me (like the original  D'Artagnan in the story)… tagged me and here i am… (i know i sound honored.. but its not…) … (Melancholy… rather weeping!)… missing my mother very badly!!!!

My mother was never so good in neat and spick-and-span kitchen platforms during cooking, but used to produce wonderful delicasies.  She says,  when you concentrate more on a very organized and tidy cooking, you will never get a free hand on that hot stove.  Overall you will be thinking, … 'oh, that peas why is it spilled all over there?'… just that and you will forget all about how to make a perfect peas masala…. and end up clearing up the spilled peas in the middle of cooking…  may be she is right in her own way, she is famous for her tasty cooking.

I never got a chance to make this authentic karnataka breakfast and my mother's classic dish Masala akki rotti, with coconut chutney.. once used to be a 'hot cake' in my circle of hungry hippos and moment i open the box, rotti used to dissappear without a clue.

Tholasida akki rotti, my mom's signature dish, i have blogged.

Tomato Gojju, gravy of tomatoe and onion.

Alasandi kalu huli, curry made with black eyed peas and brinjal.

Huruli kalu huli, curry of Horse gram whole, i craved for this during my one of those 'productive' nine month period

Mosoppu, a thick curry preparation, with five different greens cooked and mashed together with little cooked dal and a ground paste. One must taste this with Ragi balls.

My ever tried and never succeeded, mom's Magical Idlis that melts in mouth. Mother has very simple notes for this recipe. Our crazy combo for breakfast used to be, idlis dipped in kus kus(poppy seeds) payasam.

A bun embedded in a jar of sugar, i know its silly but just brings back memories of my school days, when i used to hit home from school during sultry evenings anticipating some surprises, mom offers me this sugar coated bun, and i am so much amused, how mom can reproduce the same 'sugar bun' available from local bakery!!! Then i used to feel.. what a great cook my mom is?:) (she  has improved a lot!!!atleast she can not impress me up with such things now)

Phirni, she called it pakistani dish, leaving me wonder how and from where did she ever learnt a pakistani dish?!!. Anyway, that was one cool and coolest of dessert i have ever had.

All her umpteen rice treats prepared out of her imaginations, that used to occupy my lunch box waiting for those hungry fox to attack.

There is a lot more… but meme is limited to ten, time and.. length. Off all these, there is something else also i miss is her attitude so far i never understood is, she wants me to learn cooking but never gave me a chance in her kitchen!! It used to be real irritating… but yearning for such moments sitting far off and remembering her…..:)

I would  like Bindu, Shankari, Mythili, Lakshmi, nav, Reshma, Tony, Sumitha, shaheen, RP to write few words about their most memorable moments spent with mother or unforgettable dish savored back home in mom's kitchen.