I usually wanted to escape the process of chapatti preparation, I used to hate it like anything. It was not only that I did not like preparing it, but it was more because I did not like eating chapattis as well.
Some times my chapatti would look like some unique art by an artist (I may rather say some roadside Artist :P), it would take various shapes, Australia, India, Panjab…I have seen it all in the face of my chapatti :)
It’s not that I hade never made gol chapattis, it’s just a matter of lack of practice.
The passion with which I used to cook different varieties was totally opposite to the ‘feelings’ I had for chapatti.
How I used to manage times when ppl came for lunch/dinner is an interesting story (I loved and still love inviting ppl to have food together…but…read further to get details of this ‘butt’…hey…its but and not butt :P)
My zeal to run away from the labor of chapatti pakaing indulged me into cooking interesting dishes (Atleast I feel they are interesting ;) There used to be Paav bhaji, chhole bhauture, tikiya, pulav, idli, dosa etc…
Found something common in them??? Hehe, yeah…this used to be my rescue from the crisis times which required me to cook chapattis not only for two of us, but more number of people.
With time, our methods also changed. Initially, I used to cook all chapattis and store them in a hot case. Then we used to have dinner together stuffing the first roti ka kor in each others mouth.
Then I started cooking garma garam chapattis for Ravi. I used to serve them directly from Gas to his plate. The happiness I saw on his face when he used to eat it made me more enthusiastic and I started preparing good chapattis.
I also noticed that his diet increased because of hot n fresh chapattis. I don’t know how, but gradually I started loving preparing chapattis.
Then there were times when Gaurav came to stay for some time. And I really felt it to be an achievement that my cooking speed could compete with their eating speed.
And just yesterday, when I asked Rv y u did not had salad? So innocently he said ‘mere paas time hi nahi tha…tu itni jaldi chapatti la rahi thi”:)
Hmm!! It took one year for me to learn making good chapattis at decent speed. No doubts I can never beat mumma n momji, (oye…ye beat vo literal meaning wala beat nahi hai :P..i know as usual ganda PJ hai)
Today also I like eating anything else over chapattis (Meri sehat ka raaz ;) ) but I don’t hate making them anymore.
No Complaints now :)
