My Childhood Food memories #SuperBloggerChallenge2018

I am not a foodie and I manage to eat anything if it is a veg option cooked properly with enough salt and spice. But, My mother is a great cook. She loves cooking tasty dishes, she takes time to improve the food that she cooks and presents them properly. I am just the opposite. I don't have interest in both cooking and eating.

Still, I have some good childhood memories of food. Here are some:

Gold fingers :
They are some fries with salt and spice. We used to get these packs in our school cafeteria. We used to stand in a queue to buy them during recess and share them with our friends. I used to save pocket money for this. Of course, this is junk food, but I liked it because they were spicy and crunchy.

Gold finger snacks
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Evening snacks :
After coming from school, our daily routine was to freshen up, eat homemade snacks made by my mom, and rush to dance classes. My mom used to make a variety of snacks like plantain bajji (stuffed fries), wholewheat dosas, Maggie, Rava laddoo, sweet laddoo, murukku etc., My favorite was whole wheat dosa, and my mom used to make 2 versions - a simple one and a sweet one.

Wheat Dosa
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Poori :
I used to hate almost all breakfast items like idli, vada, and dosa as I am allergic to them. But, Pooris are so tasty and my all-time favorite breakfast. They take some time to make, so my mom used to prepare them on weekends when we got up late. We used to enjoy Pooris with potato curry or with a gravy made with chickpea flour.

Poori
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Rice items and Specific vegetables:
I almost like all rice varieties like veg pulao, tamarind rice, tomato rice, etc., I like some vegetables more like ladyfingers, potatoes, tomatoes, and eggplants.

Ladyfingers/ Okra
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Really, those were fantastic days when we didn't need to cook anything and just eat and enjoy a tasty meal. What were your childhood favorites and best food memories? Do share in comments.

Until next time,

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Childhood memories with Television

Childhood memories are sweet. How can we forget silly things done by us when we were immature and did whatever we liked without worrying about how others would think about us?

All other memories kept aside, my memories with television are different altogether.
Those were the days when TV was synonym to Doordarshan channel.

Every Sunday, an award winning regional movie used to come and we used to wait for telugu's turn, it's being our mother tongue. It was more special than going to a theatre as all family members and neighbours used to sit together and watch movie eating snacks in the evening.

I love cartoons and Sunday is special for cartoons. Those days, we didn't have Pogo, Cartoon network etc, which air cartoons whole day. We used to wait for sunday mornings for Talespin, Stone boy, Duck tales etc., Slowly, regional channels like ETv started airing dubbed version of Dennis the menace, Tales spin, Adventures of Tintin etc., We used to watch these in the evenings after coming back from school. I should specially mention 'Stone boy', story was wonderful and mysterious. :-)

How can our generation forget Ramayana and Mahabharata aired on sunday mornings? Each scene and dialogue used to register in our mind and it used to teach us moral values.

Even though we have many channels now, I still miss my favourite cartoons Duck tales and Adventures of Tintin. Animation movie of Tintin has come up few years ago, but it didn't impress me much.

If there is something that this generation is missing, it's lack of physical activity due to too much availability of technology. This generation has soo many options to choose from and so they tend to ignore what is good and confuse on how to utilize time. These days, children have channels playing cartoons whole day, tablets available to play games, DVD players and laptops loaded with multiple animation movies. They need cartoon to eat, drink, sleep, to do homework and what not? These things leave no time for physical play and stress their eyes leading to eye problems at a very young age.

We cannot live in an isolated environment, but parents can give less options to choose from and set time limit for tv and video games. What else can parents do? Any ideas? Please let me know in comments.

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Until next time,

Summer holidays - childhood memories

               Summer holidays were the only thing we used to wait and dream for whole year in our childhood. Ours was a christian missionary school and we used to have Christmas holidays as well for 20 days, which was cool. But, summer holidays were always different. After Pongal holidays or Christmas holidays, we used to have some exams and so we need to study at least for some time. But no need to study anything for summer holidays.


          Every year we (my sis , me and my cousins) used to go to my grand mother's home which is in a nice village in east godavari district. As you might be knowing already, East godavari district is famous for nice scenery with many coconut trees. Our grand mother's home is a big one with around 13 rooms and a big garden behind the house. Garden has all types of trees (coconut, Guava, mango, orange, jack fruit, flower plants etc.,). So, there is always place to play many games outside the house. We used to watch TV together, play anthyakshari, caroms, hide and seek and many other games running around the house and it was very difficult for my uncles to control us when we were all together. Evening snack time was favorite. My uncle used to get sweet mangoes and water melons which were delicious to eat.


        There was one funny incident happened on one night. Power was not there on that night and all children were already slept. My aunt brought and kept a big lantern nearer to our room. My cousin woke up at that time and didn't see the lantern kept near our room, but saw the image of mirror on the wall due to lantern light. The image was in the shape of a white haired girl due to the design on the mirror. She got afraid seeing the image and shouted loudly with fear. I don't know if a shout/ fear can be contagious, but all cousins shouted one after the other waking up from sleep in panic. Every one woke up and realized the reason behind my cousin's fear and showed her that it is only a image. After she realized, we all laughed heartily for long time for the mess that she made.


Good or bad or funny or emotional, there are many memories tied to summer holidays which will remain as the best family moments in my life.
Do you have any such experiences/ memories related to summer holidays? 


Until next time,

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