Sign of dangerous times...?

[Raji Ram]

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Dear A M Sir,

:welcome: to all our friends!

 

[Asirvadam]

Our Indian youth find gratification in aping and imitating the west in everything and anything. When you desire, accept, take good ($) from them, take also the weeds. No grain grows without weeds around.

 

[renuka]

Dear Renu,

I am a bit different! I have a tiny bench in my kitchen for the visiting mAmis to sit and talk to me while I cook.

If they enter my house in a short notice, I prepare fresh puris and coconut 'thogaiyal' and serve the fast food!

In fact, one of our friend mAmAs bought a puri press for his better half, after seeing the speed in which puris were ready!

:gossip: That mAmA had to make the puri dough into circles when mAmi made puris. So he was happy to buy a puri press,

which saved him from struggling with the rolling pin!! :dance:

Dear RR ji,

I am surprised there is a Puri Press!

Making Puri isn't too hard isn't it?

I remember when I was kid and got invited for any celebration at the Gurudwara.. ..I have seen old Punjabi grandmums making Puris without using a rolling pin..they just use their hands and shape the dough into perfect proportions and make tasty Puris at the Guru Ka Langar.

 

[Raji Ram]

........ I remember when I was kid and got invited for any celebration at the Gurudwara.. ..I have seen old Punjabi grandmums making Puris without using a rolling pin..they just use their hands and shape the dough into perfect proportions and make tasty Puris at the Guru Ka Langar.

:thumb:

 

[Raji Ram]

This video is for you Renu!

Fastest Hand in Puri - Poori Making in India

 

[sravna]

I have a firm belief that when things seem hopeless then good times are actually in the vicinity. I believe that the true nature of reality is one of harmony. This is also eternal. So the seeming crooked nature of reality is only the small picture and is within the scheme of the harmonious reality.

So dangerous times come but only to better establish harmony.

 

[auh]

I have a firm belief that when things seem hopeless then good times are actually in the vicinity ... So dangerous times come but only to better establish harmony.

Then if good is on-going, bad is in the vicinity !

But you are right, only that the bad and the transient phase (from the bad to the good) seem to last longer than the good.

My worry was with regard to the extreme reactions and hasty decisions that are behind the actions of the society at large. Maybe, as Renuka has put it, these are things which we come across daily, due to technology, and yes, I do agree with it, but only to an extent.

It has a lot to do with a balance (harmony) in life, which I feel is getting downgraded by the day, imo.

 

[auh]

Another example : Spurned by girl, Delhi man shoots her father | NDTV.com

 

[amala]

Dear Renu,

I beg to differ! In the yesteryears, we could enter the kitchen of all our relatives and they were very happy to share

with us what ever they had prepared on that day. They did not need any prior notice! But now, we have to give a phone

call and make sure that they are free to receive us. In most of the houses, entry into the kitchen is banned!

And, I was mentioning that, in general, the good virtues in humans are on the decline. :sad:

I do enter the kitchen of my host/hostess, especially if informal get together and always ask if I can help, which I have taken after my mum. Nobody whatever their culture minds at all and always appreciate the gesture (some accept while many graciously decline, no harm done, at least I offered and they know they can take it). In fact some hostesses like you hanging around the kitchen to chat while their cooking and stuff! Many times I'm helping serve food/drinks and other guests are thinking that I'm a close friend or relative of the hosts when in actual fact I myself have been invited round for the first time. I think if we remember that everyone can do with a helping hand, then its easy to do it.

 

[amala]

Dear Renu,

I am a bit different! I have a tiny bench in my kitchen for the visiting mAmis to sit and talk to me while I cook.

If they enter my house in a short notice, I prepare fresh puris and coconut 'thogaiyal' and serve the fast food!

In fact, one of our friend mAmAs bought a puri press for his better half, after seeing the speed in which puris were ready!

:gossip: That mAmA had to make the puri dough into circles when mAmi made puris. So he was happy to buy a puri press,

which saved him from struggling with the rolling pin!! :dance:

Do you know if this puri press can be used for chappatis too? Mine are never always round. Mostly its hit and miss!

 

[Nara]

.... Many times I'm helping serve food/drinks .......

If I am one of guests I hope the drink will be sufficiently spiked

 

[Raji Ram]

Do you know if this puri press can be used for chappatis too? Mine are never always round. Mostly its hit and miss!

Dear Amala,

Puri press is a hopeless assistance while making chapAthis!

I can give you an idea. Roll out the chapAthi and cut with a sharp edged lid of a sambadam (5" or 6" in diameter)!

The extra dough could be collected and used to make the last chapAthi!

 

[Raji Ram]

I do enter the kitchen of my host/hostess, especially if informal get together and always ask if I can help, which I have taken after my mum. Nobody whatever their culture minds at all and always appreciate the gesture (some accept while many graciously decline, no harm done, at least I offered and they know they can take it). In fact some hostesses like you hanging around the kitchen to chat while their cooking and stuff! Many times I'm helping serve food/drinks and other guests are thinking that I'm a close friend or relative of the hosts when in actual fact I myself have been invited round for the first time. I think if we remember that everyone can do with a helping hand, then its easy to do it.

Amala is like me!

Guests ask me whether I am the daughter of the host, when I help a host who is an elderly lady! :thumb: