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A letter to my Kitchen

 Being a woman i also spend lot of time in my kitchen whether full heartedly , half heartedly or not at all heartedly . But in any case i have to go in my kitchen off and on . Today I feel like writing a letter to my kitchen.

Dear Kitchen   

Hope you are living a fulfilling life with all your jars filled to the brim with wheat , rice , pulses , sugar , tea ,coffee and cookies . I also hope that your sinks are now empty and clean unlike the last month when maid was on leave . Those days ,your sinks used to be piled up with utensils and it stinked so badly . 

Dear kitchen , it's been around seventeen years that i am taking care of you . Now you are grown up as a teenager and so you should learn to be responsible and maintain your hygiene . 

It feels good when my family agrees on khichdi and your cooker does the job   in  just one whistle . But you just don't cooperate when they demand Chole Bhature and you also start giving me tantrums . Remember how i  had to bear my daughter's  irritation when your  cooker kept  whistling  non-stop . And that dough for bhature had an extra peg of water and started dancing on the tunes of shakira . Dear kitchen !  please try to make things simpler for your mom.  

Out of all your family members I  love those  boxes of cornflakes , masala oats , makhana(foxnuts)  , tea and beaten coffee the most . They are so obedient and   friendly . I can look up to them even at the midnight hours . 

Dear kitchen , when will you grow big enough that i call you and you serve me with a hot coffee and a freshly baked cake ? 

Atleast learn to make dal chawal because that's the dish my family demands daily at night . Can't you do such a little task for your sweet mom ? I would bless you with salt , pepper , cumin , cardamom and whatever you ask for . Afterall you are my adorable  child !

My dear kitchen I have always loved you and keep doing so but please please please! grow up a bit and kindly approve my leave for one  week . As my family often does , let me also cherish the ME time sitting in the balcony and just ordering. 

You hold a very important place in my life . All i want is that you learn to be yourself .

Yours lovingly 

Mom



 

Comments

  1. //when will you grow big enough that i call you and you serve me with a hot coffee and a freshly baked cake ? // ha ha. well done!

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  2. Lovely! :-) Kitchen is a place that we take so much for granted, don't we! So, thoughtful of you to have remembered K for Kitchen, and more than that, wrote a letter :-)
    For me kitchen is also a place to experiment, with new combinations of recipes.

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    1. Ofocourze its a place we experiment so much but now over years i have got bored of experimenting.

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  3. Nice one. I'm carried back to the kitchen of my bachelor days in Shillong, a 4x 8 feet cell that sustained me for years. I wished time and again it could do some work by itself.

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    1. Thanks . I am glad you got reminded of old days

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  4. A nice kindred appeal to your kitchen. Remarkably interesting post. :)

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  5. Hehehe... I wish to sign this letter too Monika. Such a fun thought!

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  6. Hahaha... How we all wish for this! This was a fun read

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  7. If only! Nice post that has me chuckling over the sincere wishes of all of us who arenot too fond of cooking!

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