I have vivid memories of my last birthday...endless law and order duty, a botched up dinner party and sullen family and friends.Which taught me to appreciate the little pleasures of life whenever they come my way.
Today, exactly after an year,the pace of life is quite languid.Of course, the morning began the way sunday mornings invariably are for a policewoman. Something unpleasant inadvertently happens on saturday nights or on early sunday mornings and then, the entire sunday is consumed in a clean-up exercise. This sunday was no different.So, this morning also required a major fire fighting exercise. what with making numerous phone calls to avert an unpleasant situation and receiving again, scores of calls from far-flung family and friends enthusiastically wishing a happy birthday!
By mid-morning, crisis was averted and thoughts turned to celebrating the birthday....I am a year younger today!! Living in a nondescript dusty village town, I couldn't hope to go to a restaurant to have a quiet lunch/ dinner. So, husband and i decided to have the works at home...quite optimistic..hmmm!!
I put on my chef cap(apron to be precise) and rustled up quite a birthday lunch. Zafrani Badam Pulao,Butter chicken,Vegetable manchurian and boondi raita....Yum Yum!
Again, being quite a novice in the art of cooking, did quite a bit of research...picked up the recipe of zafrani pulao from another blog, chicken makhni was sanjeev kapoor's recipe and veg.manchurian, my mother's patent. Feeling quite lazy to give in the recipes today but shall do it eventually.
By the way, calorie counting has taken a back seat today..going to gorge on chocolate ice-cream. Mmmmm...for the gourmande in me..what better way to celebrate a birthday than to gorge on good food. Shall put in extra workout tomorrow.
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