Frankly speaking, I have always been a person who prefers home-cooked food. Eating outside has only been for emergencies or occasional situations. Of course, there were phases those intense multitasking days when I did step out more often or ordered food from outside.
But deep within me, especially as I grew and evolved, homemade food has remained my true choice and comfort.
For a brief moment, I did think of ordering amrakhand to celebrate the festival tomorrow, it is a tradition after all. But then, I rolled up my sleeves and began gathering the basic ingredients. The menu was already taking shape in my mind, and soon, the curd was hung on the wall, quite literally.
Why did I choose this today?
Because I travelled back to one of my sweetest memory lanes.
When my kids were small, even during my most demanding, multitasking phase when I was constantly racing to prove myself I still chose to cook at home. And whenever I hung the curd on the wall, it would become a moment of wonder for them.
They were fascinated.
“What is this?”
“Why is it hanging?”
“What will happen next?”
They would keep touching it, observing it, and the next day, they would wake up with so much excitement to see what had changed.
And when the shrikhand or amrakhand was finally ready, they would relish it with super hot puris wholeheartedly. My son, especially, insisted on perfectly puffed puris to go with that delicious sweet dish.
Even before all this, they would eagerly wait for me to return home, just to narrate their little world of the day.
And then, one fine day perhaps when they were in Senior KG they came home jumping with joy. They had been served puri with “ice cream” in school! My mother and I were taken aback.
“Ice cream with puri?”
When we enquired further, we discovered it was actually amrakhand.
Wow.
Just to relive those sweetest memories once again, that curd found its place on the wall today.
On this sweet note, wishing you all a very "Happy New Year" according to the Indian calendar.
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