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Charlie Anna. That’s what this queer lil fella is! Roadside Romeo, anyone?

This guy’s story is pretty weird. One fine day he just shows up at my doorstep and becomes an integral part of the jingbang. And by jingbang I mean 30 street dogs who are fed everyday by my generous dad ❤️. Mind you, he’s carved a niche for himself not cuz of his cuteness rather cuz of the ‘dog’-matic individual he is! Initially the attitude he possessed was that of the uncrowned king of no man’s land! He wouldn’t eat (not even chicken, imagine!), wouldn’t mingle, would growl and howl, fight and bite and throw a whole lot of other whims and fancies. Gradually he got habituated to his new surroundings, but I sometimes feel he still misses his family. Wonder what must’ve happened. Did he run away? Or did they chase him away?

I wouldn’t exactly call him ‘adorable’ ( you’ll know what I mean once you hear him snarl) nevertheless he doesn’t fail to charms you with his weirdness. I hope he accepts his new abode and learns to make new friends, after all , there are 30 of them to give him company.

P.s my house is known as ‘nai veedu’ in my locality, which literally means dog house in Tamil. Lol!

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Emus in SRMC !!!

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Desi going videsi ( with oodles of confusion!!)

Last Sunday when mom asked me to make something with chicken, I was kinda surprised. Having mostly stuck to baking, using the stove was a huge leap, that too chicken! But mom’s wish was my command so I started out on this crazy hunt for a easy-yet-tasty chicken curry recipe, that too something that would sound kinda exquisite ( Cmon now, we all love those fancy names, don’t we?) . After a two hour long search, encountering all kinds of recipes , some videsi ( most of them didn’t have ingredients that were easily available, ah! There goes my dream of starting with something exotic!), some desi, I suddenly had a brainwave. Why hadn’t I thought of this before ? Chef Sanjeev Kapoor! The greatest cooking legend India has ever known. He had the perfect solution to my problem on his website, … The Yakhni Chicken Curry. This simple yet delicious curry from Kashmir was gonna bear the brunt of my cooking skills. As I was going through the recipe I noticed that it didn’t include chilly powder which made me go WHAT THE HELL ?? An Indian chicken curry without chilly powder? Probably cuz I’m new to mainstream cooking, but as far as I knew, it was kinda impossible to make an Indian curry without chilly powder. So I added a lil Kashmiri lal( a different type of chilly powder which is less spicy but imparts a brighter red colour) on my on accord,which is why the curry might look a lil different to those who know. It doesn’t actually make much of a difference, so you might as well chuck it. Wanting to make it special for my family, I made it a three course affair by adding a Greek salad( especially for dad, he looooooves it !) and a sago with coconut milk dessert into the menu.

So that, was my first experience at full fledged cooking which my family gladly finished without leaving a trace. Good luck to all those cooks-at-heart who wanna take their first step towards their secret love, stir away !

P.S this is the link to the Yakhni chicken curry I found on the maestro’s site http://www.sanjeevkapoor.com/Recipe/Yakhni-Style-Chicken-Sanjeev-Kapoor-Kitchen-FoodFood.html

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I don’t regret the things I did wrong. I only regret the good things I did for the wrong people.