05/07/2026
That’s my usual full-course Bengali Cooking I do on a Saturday, simple, not requiring precision! You know I ain’t a cook with precision, neither have intelligence to earn fame in spite of the shortcoming! I saw tofu roshogolla, was trying my hands on tofu chomchom yesterday evening, got suspicious, tried tofu lyangcha, was failing; I brought it under my umbrella; of ability; let’s blog about it on Thursday?
What I cooked yesterday were spine gourd fry (in oven), red lentil curry, pointed gourd-potato curry, raw banana-eggplant curry, dried Bombay Duck fish bharta, mutton curry, sea-bass curry(fried fish in oven), drumstick-eggplant curry; yam-raw banana bharta, green moong lentils!
Coconut water & coconut are love, not really coconut milk unless it’s laksa curry! That Southern Indian Cookie is such close to heart, I wish I could eat limitless!
I cooked those naan with self-raising flour, yet we must add baking soda, milk beside yogurt, they were soft but the look wasn’t authentic! Bengalis in West Bengal eat both rice & bread; a “Bangal” says this; exceptions can’t be examples; only 1% South East Asian would believe in veganism, does it prove their natural tendency? Surprisingly, I saw Kolkata’s craziness about “vegan leather”, the price of ever increasing mutton, chicken, fish doesn’t prove a shift!
America, Singapore, rest of first world countries, if you are such high on nationalism, where would our kids start their lives? Mine / Our son is smart, highly capable, scored 3.8 in MS, he has to start good to reach high! He stays alone, speaks minimal, stays far from us; Mumma feels dismantled thinking what if he feels stressed? On a different note, I have taken pretty much in this matter; be humble; give these kids time to reach somewhere; I am an useless; if you are taking an upper hand sitting in secured castle(?), it’s wrong, your tone disturbs this tensed mother at this time! I am nuts doesn’t mean my radar doesn’t catch your pride!
I am not in habit of giving big talks, since 2020, I had been motivating son, “your mother licked her wound since 2016-17, some insensitive souls tried everything to break her, they couldn’t!” I hid my face, wanted to flee Singapore, the wiser at home consoled, gave strength. Mumma stood strong by son, showed him the right path, told we are born with our looks; maintain it; we are born with respective IQ, sharpen, upgrade it! Quality matters; I wanted a mark-sheet to hang in front of the bad-mouthed, insensible people; Singapore feels better to me without the non-sense!”
Son took 6 years to get me my coveted score; he has to get me a great career! Kids don’t fight; the elders create rift in them; specially the one I was dealing with; I can’t think of saying, “my son is handsome, girls are after him, your son is poor looking, unsmart!” I couldn’t retaliate, don’t consider myself in same league!
I don’t want that kind of daughter-in-law, with blood-sucking tendencies. Then, who are you? You know you would be better than me; academically, behaviour wise, look wise, a good orator! The way kids are getting violent, killing each-other, we have to be cautious selecting! Know that the best way to get rid of each-other is amicable separation, it’s that simple!
Well, my air-fried poori got to be “khakra”, I would make oil fried luchi-poori twice or thrice a month, better! I baked a non-veg banana cake, may I do a reel about it tomorrow? They may not be eye-catching but recipes are genuine! I don’t work, I must practice speaking!
Labayne had grown my most favourite herb coriander! Thanks to FairPrice X-tra for the good quality seeds! We don’t know how long I get to savour the scot-free life here, even people at senior-management level cannot be sure of a tomorrow, the world has turned restless! We can’t trust kids, we don’t want to hold back talents, what do we want? Anyway, I am ready to face what destiny has in store!
