Never ever did I imagine that one of my blog titles will have 'lockdown' in it.
Our lives have changed over the last few weeks.
Staying home is saving lives.
Virtual is the new real.
Looking inward is the way forward.
Simplicity has been reinstated.
The Gift of Life is being appreciated again...................
When I started this blog, it was meant to be a diary of A-junior growing up. Small funny interesting anecdotes combined with the cooking and the cameras. But as he grew up, the anecdotes became less cute (;-) and discussing those publicly became a no-no!
Today's situation is an exception. Totally unprecedented and unexpected.
So the rules are a bit relaxed.
My hopes with the blog is that one day A-junior will be reading it with his family...and the anecdote will bring a smile to his lips.
After 2 weeks of lockdown when the hair started to cross the ears, the men in the family started to lose their cool and the locked-down-family equilibrium felt at risk.
Both men love their hair short.
A-Junior has just started to like it bit longer at the top but still wants the sides cropped short.
A-Senior has lost most of it. Still.........
Hair cut is a necessity and part of "essential services' at our place.
So the situation was not very pleasant. The fact that the hair was really growing fast and making life difficult was mentioned multiple times a day. Mood swings became directly proportional to the hair length and had nothing to do with the teenage (or mid life) hormones.
At some point, A-junior could not take it any longer and wanted to buy a hair-cut-kit. A-senior supported the idea with a lot of enthusiasm.
The kit was ordered online and was delivered at the door step.
So far so good, everything was ok, and then........
I was asked to inaugurate the machine.
On my son's head! My one and only son, and his one and only head!
...and I did.
Technically, these machines (am sure many of you use them as well) are quite easy to handle. They have settings on the machine which allows you to cut the hair exactly at a certain length, I have seen it used by the hair dresser ten thousand times.
Looked very simple...just like a lawn mower.......zzrrrrrrrrr....and done.
[A-junior set the mark on the machine and handed it to me].
However, in this case by the time I got the 'feel' of the zzrrrrrrrrr....the damage was already done.
Suddenly, out of nowhere, there was this big patch of 'nothingness' above the left ear of my son. I immediately realized he had set it at the shortest length and I had used my biceps a little bit more than required. I panicked.
To match the left side, I tried to use the same muscles on the right but nervousness gripped me. (what kind of a mother am I to have caused such damage?). The right side 'nothingness' did not finally match the left side 'nothingness'. I tried to play a bit with the settings and left the top patch quite long, to compensate for the blunders at the sides.
The head looked like parched land in summer with the mirage of a few oasis here and there.
I also said sorry 50 times ( it was so bad!!).
He was cool and said, "no problem Mom, who cares? we are in lockdown" and with that put on a cap.
After the incident, A-senior's enthusiasm and urgency to get his hair cut suddenly vanished....
He even avoided eye contact for 2 days till he could not bear his long hair anymore.
So today, I did it again.......the result is not very bad.
It is still parched land but without oasis here and there.
After all, practice makes a (wo)man perfect!
;-)
Corona is making us do strange things.
The two major takeaways for me from this lockdown is Simplicity and Humility.
Whatever we are, Wherever we are, Whoever we are.....
Stay simple, stay humble.
Under the lockdown situation our diet has become simpler. The supermarket visits are few and we do not hoard a lot of stuff.
One of the most simple (yet diverse) items in our cuisine is Daal.
It is a comfort food for me and takes very little time to cook.
A few variations can change the taste totally, making each recipe very unique and very tasty.
Let me share a daal from my kitchen today.
Daal Delicacy-1.: Daal-e-rang-bahar
Cooked with tomatoes and spinach, this moong daal is rich in colour, taste and nutrition.
Ready steady cook:
Dry roast the moong daal till it turns golden brown in colour. Wash and boil together with one large tomato and fresh spinach. Add salt, turmeric and 1/2 tsp sugar.
In a heavy bottom pan, heat ghee. Add a tbsp of whole cumin, 1 bayleaf, 1 dry red chilli, and 1 tbsp of grated ginger.
Fry for a minute and then add the boiled daal.
Have with white rice.
Simple.
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