Hey ppl sorry been totally out of the scene all this long. First of all let me thank Shruti for making me come back to update my blog n Arpita for those generous comments. So to tell u the story till now, well I resigned from my job(I don’t believe in qutittin!!)…took a well deserved break at home… and now m in Bangalore. No m not here to search for my past life roots as my parents insist (I donno why they say I look like a southie!!). M here for a technical wrting course. And since I’m here all I’ve had is Southie food, all I’ve heard is Kannada words and all I’ve watched is Southie channels with all Telegu, Tamil and Kannada words mixing up which I’m still trying to push down my throat.
The best thing bout B’lore is that the weather is just so beautiful that every day I feel like going for a looooong drive( wish I had a chauffer and a car.) It rains in the evening as if the God is trying to quench someone’s thirst. Nights are dark and cool, as if just made for lovers to make a perfectly romantic date. The sunshine in the morning, ah!! As if God has wrapped you with a welcome warmth.
The sad thing is that I entered B’lore in a fever and then I got another one within 2 weeks of being here! Well thanks to my cold that has become a regular guest of my body. This time the cold decided to cook me up. Here’s the recipe of the preparation(I’ll also b putting in some of my technical writing skills out here.) so here’s presenting
Bangalore Bukhari
Ingredients
- Meet (there’s just one piece so there’s option of quantity)
- A nasty cold( preferably one that likes to stick by you for some days. Then it’ll ask cough to join in too)
- Ice cream (we all scream for ice cream but after u’ve had it you won’t even be able to speak. Just one would do. In my case it was Mc Swirl. Yeah it’s the one with chocolate coating on it.)
- Bangalore ki baarish(read it as rain)
Best Cooking time: on a Sunday
Method
- Make Meet sleep through a cold night
- Next day she’ll have a cold. Just make sure she doesn’t have any medicines that’ll disable the cold to strengthen its grip. You’ll know the cold is there by her constant sniffels
- Make Meet do all things that can add to her cold, like washing clothes, apply facepack etc etc.
- In the evening make her go wandering with her friend.
- then send her just near a Mc Donald’s with big attractive boards of ice creams( even better if she’s not had any for ages)
- Let her buy that ice cream, eat it, enjoy it!! It’s got cough hiding inside. The dish won’t cook until both cold and cough work together.
- Once she’s had it send her out in the open with cold winds of Bangalore. (the Cold has now got the grip, the cough has also reached its territory. The cold wind’s nutrition to them!)
- Now it’s time for God to soak this mixture. The night’s enough for that.
- Note: At this point she’ll have some warm milk thinking this would deactivate the cold and cough. But don’t worry, that won’t work anyways.
- Meet is now marinated for the bukhar. Let the night pass. The cold and cough are doing there work.
- In the morning send Meet to class as usual. There’s she’ll be sitting in AC at 22 deg. C. the cooking starts up right here. N guess that doesn’t even require LPG!!
- The weakness sets in. let Meet return home and lie down. While she’s resting turn up the heat.
- By evening the temperature will go up apne aap. The bukhar is now well cooked. Its time now to put in some medicines.
- Get Meet to take some medicines. She’s grown up enough to do those doctor chemist rounds herself.
- She’ll hit the bed again. Now the recipe will slowly start releasing water (commonly its called sweat!).
- For best results wait for her to release quite some water before making her get up.
- The next day repeat steps 11 n 12.
Bangalore Bukhara is ready!!
I won’t say it’s an interesting dish. If you have any sympathies on Meet or you have a cold like this one don’t let this happen to u. In other words don’t b an idiot to go out and have an icecream when you know u have a cold and its only gonna worsen and don’t think popping an anti allergic medicine is gonna save you from a fever!
That’s all for now guys
Will keep you updated on any more news or recipies [;)]
