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Makkhan on chaaas...

  It was already 2 hours and now both me and my cook were sitting tired on the table deciding what to do next. We had been trying so many things in last few days to get makkhan from chaach. Some one told us, refrigerate the curd before churning it and there we went, kept the dahi overnight in the fridge to get the butter.. no result. Some one said, ufff don’t keep the curd but the buttermilk post churning so that all the butter will freeze and consolidate. And then there was another batch of dahi, another churning and refrigerating. No butter again! There were experiments with putting Ice in it, then various timings in mixer or various densities of buttermilk with NO BUTTER!!! Then some one voiced the right way was not to use mixer, but the wooden churner. That was also bought from the market.. and here we were taking turns to churn the curd to get some butter. And here we were with hands hurting from all the churning and buttermilk with no traces of butter in it at all… We just

Yes I have an affair……!

You heard it right! I know for a mid-aged, rather slightly tilting towards the “old” aged woman, this is considered to be a taboo. The society never would approve of this and I would need to undergo a great deal of humiliation for this. Yet I am currently in the cloud 9 and so high on the affair that probably all this criticism would not even reach me!! And let me tell that this cloud 9 is the most stunning place I have ever lived in. Even considering the most beautiful houses I got to stay like some of the British styled palatial houses with a beautiful manicured garden, sea view veranda’s, where peacocks would come as daily visitors!! I am in a constant happy state and I smile a lot now a days, laugh at the silliest jokes and often find myself humming my favorite Bollywood songs….my fav..! Even when I go shopping (okay, let me clarify as I am on strict no clothes/cosmetics/shoes diet enforced by me I call my vegetables/ grocery marketing as shopping hushhhh…), I smile at the vegetabl
My 3rd glass of wine..  One day I had a realization, I don’t recollect my Eureka moment but it came to me that Life is beautiful, we should be accepting life as it is. Be spontaneous, be in the moment, don’t plan too much because we never know what will happen going ahead. Everything is temporary in life and life is about living the moment we are in rather than brooding on the past or contemplating on the future. Everything doesn’t need a solution right now or some solutions are not needed, every problem need not be even solved, every situation doesn’t require to be handled. It’s okay to end up in a mess, it’s okay to fail, it’s okay not to find a solution to every problem we face. Being just a human and not a super human is OKAY. We all have some shortcomings and the day we accept our short comings and love ourselves despite these, is the time we accept Life. Also, it’s important to understand that all people around have shortcomings, and when we start accepting our shortcomings and