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
//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!
ReplyDeleteHaha i really want her to grow up
DeleteLovely! :-) 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 :-)
ReplyDeleteFor me kitchen is also a place to experiment, with new combinations of recipes.
Ofocourze its a place we experiment so much but now over years i have got bored of experimenting.
DeleteNice 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.
ReplyDeleteThanks . I am glad you got reminded of old days
DeleteA nice kindred appeal to your kitchen. Remarkably interesting post. :)
ReplyDeleteThankyou so much
DeleteHehehe... I wish to sign this letter too Monika. Such a fun thought!
ReplyDeleteSure Anagha lets togerher do it !
DeleteHahaha... How we all wish for this! This was a fun read
ReplyDeleteIf 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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