Aromatic and Delicious Sunday Evening :) :) :)

Last Sunday, i tried something unusual and different. Ok it’s unsual because, i never cooked on a Sunday evening and it is different for two reasons, firstly, i never tried a French recipe before; secondly, i cooked it with my French friend in her house in Rue Franscois Martin street( French part of my town). Actually, we (me and celine) planned two things, cooking and movies. Unfortunately, i was not able to stay in her house. I dropped the movie plan in the last minute. Every tea break discussion of ours carried the menu for sunday evening. Eventually, we finalized Quiche, pop corn, vegetable cheese sandwich and a desert with puffed rice ( in tamil it is called a “Aval”). I reached her house around 5 pm in the evening, there i got introduced to another French girl named “Manon”. She is also staying with Celine with a quite interesting profile, she is working on ecological issues and travelling the world to make a study on it. We left the house for buying the ingredients like Cheese, Carrot, Fresh cream, Mushroom and eggs. To my surprise the supermarket where i usually buy vegetables and fruits has got expanded with cosmetics, food items and other households like a typical supermarket. So we found everything there, except fresh cream and eggs. Later, i drove her to Nilgris. While driving in the French town we narrowly escaped from hitting a van. Big vehicles are not usual in French part of the town and we never heard the sound of the van. (It is a “T” shaped road, imagine the van is coming from one end and we are in the road intersecting or perpendicular). I took a deep breath, (if only i do it regularly it is a yoga ) and drove to Nilgris, we finished our shopping and returned home. I started to do pop corn, i made it some five times before. It was successfull all the time except yesterday, because i forgot to turn off the flame after the popping stopped. So, some 5% of the corn was burnt completely. Thank God it still had its taste and aroma . Celine appreciated me

I started to cut vegetables for the sandwich, meanwhile Celine was frying mushroom and onions for the quiche. I stacked my sandwich with sliced onions, carrots, tomato, cheese and chat masala to taste. This time i was 100% successfull with my dish. The sandwich came well with a minimum roasting. This time Manon appreciated me Before we left for the shopping, we made the aval desert so that, the mixture sets wells, with aval, coconut milk, milk and sugar. The process of quiche involved many ingredients and stages as well, like Chopping, Frying, layering, mixing, Baking etc., Usually Quiche is made with pork but Celine used chicken since i will not eat pork. We set the oven temperature for the quiche and relaxed our backs in front of the TV watching Indiana Jones and the last Crusade in star movies and Cats & Dogs in HBO by swapping the channel in ad breaks. Sadly, Yesterday the cable TV operator of our location failed (for hardcore cricket lovers like my brothers it is compared to a brutal murder) telecasting the first one day series between India and Australia. I didn’t follow the news as well for the whole day. When i took a pause at CNN IBN seeing the shots from Cricket i was thrilled to know the result. Because by that time i know the match will be over. Ok, i saw the shots when India was 288 with four runs more to beat Aussies. Here comes the sad television editing, they showed the Indian players standing and cheering the players which looked like India won the match. But, horribly the news ticker at the bottom carried Australia won India by 4 runs . I was really shocked and felt bad in missing a good series But i soon got over it to taste the Quiche which carried a devouring aroma. Hmmmm, it was really good and tasted heavenly. The hard labour in the preparation of Quiche would have made it taste heavenly With a feeling of a satisfied evening i took some Quiche for my family. This time my cousins appreciated me for something really good:) All appreciation goes to ma cher Celine