Oh Wow, I finally cooked!!!

After five days of survival on lettuce, uncooked pasta, bread, bread and more bread, my body, mind and soul dragged to me where the kitchen was. We moved to a furnished business apartment equipped with Kitchen & laundry. With a 100W smile on our faces, we went around exploring the induction stove, the dish washer, oven and the utensils. In anticipation of 'Ghar ka Khana', our next mission was to find a grocery store which sold sort of Indian/Asian stuff. I guess God couldn't see us starve any longer, so showed us a store at a walkable distance.

I literally raided the place, as usual when it comes to shopping, picking up everything that remotely looked essential for Indian cooking. Now, can we survive without milk and Yogurt?? Nope, impossible. I went looking for these two and picked up one tall and a short tetra pack in a jiffy assuming the tall one is Milk and the other Yogurt. Finally we ate some food that had salt, some spices and a decent color. I was happy to use my new cooker (yea, the same one I almost threw), coffee filter and the spices I carried all the way from India. Sigh... good day after all.

I kept dreaming of the awesome Coffee day filter coffee I am gonna have in the morning all night I guess :) There comes Sunrise (it's another thing it hardly ever sets) and I jumped out of the bed for COFFEE. Remember the tall tetra pack, ah yea, the same one I assumed to be milk.. opened, smelled it and put it on stove with slight suspicion. Is this really milk, we asked each other with no real answers, but waited for something to happen. What we see is a layer of ghee coming out of the so called boiling milk. Well, it wasn't milk, apparently it's something similar to yogurt. Why on earth did the stores separate types of yogurt in their shelves?? My yelling didn't help, I still needed coffee.. so I sent sri to get some milk from the coffee machine at the reception. Aha, after a half-hour struggle I got my authentic Indian filter coffee. Sri always says, 'You're a bigger coffee addict than I am', it proved to be true today :)

The day got better with some desi masala omelette for breakfast and spicy Brinjal curry for lunch. God bless Indian food.

The first few days!

"Ah, finally" was the expression both Sri and I had on our face when we landed in Sweden. Yes only after landing (thanks to last minute work permit, visa and tickets), we wanted to make sure the sigh of relief doesn't happen before time.

After two days in Sweden, spending time lazing around in the hotel room, I realized amidst all the confusion we were in, I was most concerned about whether I'll be able to carry the Cooker or not. Worse, I cursed the cookers when they were the reason for overweight baggage. (I know, 'Women'). All in all, after crazy shopping, last minute packing and unpacking at the airport, it was wonderful when we landed in Sweden. I can't say I've explored the place yet, but I am happy with loads of green around me.

I haven't quite understood the weather yet as I was zombied both the days, but whenever I wake up there is light (Sun- not much). I never cared for summer before except for Mangoes, but it seems like I am being punished for taking the Sun God for granted. Today has been bright and lovely, so I am going on a bus ride to see some city.

If I don't get lazy, which happens very often, I'll make an attempt to pen down my new adventures everyday. Hmmm, on second thoughts, I'll make sure I do.

Hejda