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| Poached eggs this morning in at home in Mumbai. I used avocado oil, not the mustard oil that my grandmom would have. Sea salt, black pepper, chaat masala & Kashmiri mirch |
I remember having my first fried egg when I was 8. My thakurma, paternal grandmother, introduced me to it in Calcutta and called it ‘deemer poach’.
That was also the time when dadu, my maternal grandfather, suggested that I read the newspaper everyday. I started with the sports page and the Monday city features section, that The Statesman called the Calcutta Notebook.
We lived with my maternal grandparents for a year when I was 9, just after my dad passed on. Dadu urged me to watch the 9 pm news every night. He would also encourage me to read. And to dream big.
That remained a practise with me for years. Catching the 9pm news on TV, even after we switched from DD to satellite channels. Till news anchors began to see themselves as members of parliament and their increasingly strident decibels began to give me insomnia.
I continued reading the newspaper every morning till a few years back when anxiety and a resultant fear of closed spaces kept guiding me to news articles that would trigger off panic attacks. Literally. Not metaphorically.
I eventually overcame it. That is a story for another day, but the key points in that story were finding purpose and learning to live in the moment.
I read the newspaper this morning, calmly but with concern, and then made fried eggs for breakfast K and me. I could sense the smiles of both my thakurma and my dadu from up there as we sat to eat.
PS: Tell me your fried egg story. I have more.
Writing from home with the Kitty Karmakars:
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| Baby Loaf post lunch session |
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| Breakfast for Loaf and Nimki |
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| Snuggle bugs |
An earlier story on poached eggs.
Your blogs are very catchy.. read one, you look forward to the next one. 🙂 thanks for churning them out KK.
They are very grounded and one can relate to them easily. Your Kitty Karmarkars add zest to your blogs, posts and podcasts. Keep em flowing. The foodocracy interview especially are really good ones, letting us discover some of the finest foods and food joints in the country. In these times, there are very few readable sites and pages,.. yours definitely is one of them… take care and stay safe..
Dear Rahul, this is the first thing that I read this morning and the day could not have got off to a better start. Thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Nice Post.