I always remember how my mom used to say “You start cooking you’ll realize the hardship in it” whenever I grumbled about the food she made… Yesterday I tried my hands on something touted as the 1 of the most difficult tasks… Yes… It’s making chappathis … Luckily my mom saved me the pain of kneading the dough...

I was busy watching Friends on my computer when she barged into the room saying, “Ramya, go make the chappathis”… I was like what… She says “I always do them; it’s high time you learn… What will you do when you get married? ”…. Why do they always have to pull me getting married in this…? I don’t understand… I shall manage after I get married… I hope I find a guy who helps me in cooking :( I really don’t want somebody who keeps bossing around giving instructions as to what he wants to eat and how I should cook… I shall definitely tell him “Ok, the kitchen is all yours, cook whatever you want and eat”… :) Obviously I’m not gonna take orders from some weirdo…

Ok now coming back to reality, I figured out that my mom needed the comp to play games and hence the entire ‘chappathi making hungama’… God save me!!!! I go to the kitchen to find a ball of kneaded dough… I found the chappathi making stone and the rolling pin (belan) and washed it and let it dry… Meanwhile I broke the ball to as many small balls of dough as possible… And hence started the process of making chappathis…

I tell you, it’s not that difficult as our mothers claim it to be… Ya, initially you might have some trouble with getting the perfect round shape… I began with maps of Australia and Africa… In the process I even got an irregular heart shaped chappathi… Finally by the time I was making my fifth chappathi, the round began to appear :) Voila! And I finally mastered the art of making chappathi… But by the end of it I was all tired and sweaty… And I still had to roast them on the tava… Oh no… I jus cant do so much work in a day… :O By then my mom had come for supervision and the argument began as to who makes the better chappathis… Since dinner time was nearing she offered to roast them or I would rather say she had no choice but to do it cos I told her I was gonna shower, as all tat cooking drove me mad…

Dinner was good… With the yummy chappathis that I made and the awesome mutton curry that my mom made :) I’m very sure the chappathis made the curry taste better (my mom jus doesn’t agree to this)…

P.S. I have decided that in future I will cook in a kitchen that either has a fan or an centralized AC… Or else I’m gonna boycott cooking… What say ???