Winter Special ....Food and memories..

Its a winter season and green peas are everywhere in market and in kitchen.

Green peas pulav,Green peas usal,Matar pattice ,matar chi karanji,stuff matar paratha,matar soup and you can really get innovative here.Even simple poha upama suddenly has green appearance in abundance

Now there is an argument here you get matar throughout the season or haven't you heard about frozen mutter.

But then grown up in modest middle class family one of the values that got imbibed is to have seasonal stuff.Season stuff which you get Rs 30-40 sh/kg, off season can roar up to Rs 150 quarter kg and then buying it at that price is a sin :) 

(here there is no question of whether you afford it or not. Just your whims to have some food will not justify that price.)

So when its a season you stock it up and then deep freezer section will have different dessert boxes filled with green peas.

You take out one box for the menu on the card.

Whenever I make mattar pattice I remember mavshi who had invited me for evening snacks and served these delicious mattar paatice.Because of her this dish entered my kitchen.Now everytime i make it I make sure i remember her.Now deal is I need to make it once for her .

Piping hot home made food ...no swiggy zomato online delivery can beat that.No

Excellent way to finish left over chapatis is to fry them as Samosas and in winter season offcouse candidate for feeling is green peas.

I make this and then I don't remember another aunt of mine is next to impossible.

Long back on some yearly trip to one of the hill stations I have had this mattar soup.

Green colour , creamy texture and off-course taste of it lingers in my mouth and heart.

Hot soup in that weather something will remember forever.

Such soup I never had again anywhere and not I dared to make it myself.

It is said that every moment we spend now is actually a memory.

We are not just leaving but creating memories for tomorrow.

That moment can be as small or insignificant as peeling off green peas.

Got fresh green peas from market and while peeing it off so dearly remembered her.Aji.

She used to visit and stay with us for couple of months in a year.Whenever dad used to get green peas she would lend a hand.Slowly and carefully removing each one from that pod she would finish that task.

If there are some little one she would toss them in her mouth or give it to us.These are the sweetest one she would say.

Now after so many years when peeling off green peas becomes one of the mundane task those sweet memories slowly float and by the time am back to present moment task is already done.