Listen to your friends

It all started months ago, when I had beetroot rasam at a friends place. I was so taken by beetroot that day, that I knew I was going to have it again... Now I will have it when it either changes its colour or stops leaking which is never..
I have had enough of visual effects of betacyanin. If you have to cook beetroots for many but have only few, mix carrots and or cauliflower. Once cooked they will all look like beetroot anyway. It seemed so much like a personality trait ... of not keeping to itself...
I should have listened to my friend. I thought peeling it was the only discouraging thing.. and I couldnt be stopped. I was only making a wish of having beetroot come true. And I had the previous excellent review of tasting it to back on. So how much ever or what ever my friend said would not make a difference.
When I get this feeling of how would this vegetable go with that, I just have to try it, even if someone says dont. And when I do that I am just considering if I am a Don Juan in a way. In a book I read recently, a conversation had it that Don Juan went for one after another because thats the only way to test if his power/effect still worked. Its like how the boy who was told he could scream for help kept doing it to see if it works..Why do we make wishes come true? Is it to see if we can make our next wish come true.
Oh, why I say a 'conversation had it that way' is to just say how we chance upon different interpretations because of who we are talking with...

10.27.12

Once my roomate had some beetroot leftover from a salad. We made a raita from it. Boy was it the prettiest.
My husband once made an aloo and beetroot curry. I havent had that combination before. his favourite from hostel food. Mine happens to be a runny plain dal.
last week I made poha with some beetroot in it. we all know how its good at lending colours.

Sitting against motion

I didnt realise that some people have problem sitting in a direction not facing the driver. There is this train journey from the City of Williams to Grand canyon. This route is a point to point and not a loop track.. so when the engine is brought to the front .. passengers can adjust their seat if they want to sit in the direction of motion. I wonder how such seats will look. I heard a complaint that all signs in the City to Williams always point to some other spot there itself and the one pointing to the highway is there but too small to find.

How I heard of Pesto

Today when I saw 'Pesto's Pizza' from the bus, I didnt quite like the name because Pesto is such a general everybody's thing, I feel that a restaurant's name should say something more than ordinary. If its a Pizzeria, it should have some exotic sounding name like Grimaldi or Picazzo.
The first time I heard of Pesto sauce was from an Australian. I thought in his accent Pasta sauce can be called Pesto sauce or whatever he wants to utter.. but some time into the conversation... I had to be accomodating of this new sauce...
In the forget-to-recall-your-favorite section, this time it was the restaurant's name.. some time ago it was the author.

Early morning or waking headache...

It is surprising that if sometimes you go to sleep to get relief from headache.. you sometimes wake up with head ache to get relief from sleep?

More cascades..

The new bus route that I have been taking for the last one week is just providing me too much info on where many places that I have heard of are..
There is this water cascade entrance on the right, that I see each day. While I spent the whole week just in awe that I now know where Tempe Cinemas is and Stain market too, I could not help wondering when today I saw that, this cascade had a counterpart on the left of the entrance. Why are only facades so decorated? The cascade was at an angle, so I somehow got this idea that it must be alone. I guess, people coming from the other side are entitled to a beautiful view too..

Real Person

Michiko Kakutani is a real person.? I thought she was a cooked up person for Carrie Bradshaw's benefit...

Unbelievable

Today, while searching for books in a local library, I was flipping through the pages of 'Refuse to Choose' by Barbara Sher and I thought why or how is a reader so willing to give in to whatever is written.. and I am in love with Socrates..

Mispronounced

Basura is a green gram based dish
sorry that should be Basaru

Yesterday my friend had a hard time making me pronounce 'basaru' as it is and not as basura, basuri or anything else. I was not alone in making this mistake. A junior too found it difficult to call it right. We were surprised to find that a trash can in a mall had 'basura' as its Spanish equivalent.