Eating like Romans - Christmas 2007

This Christmas was celebrated with friends.

Christmas during school years were spent at Valiammachi's place. 10 days of not going to school. 10 Days of being pampered, of absolute freedom. 10 Days spent lost in books. 10 Days of early morning bathes in the nearby river. 10 days spent sitting alone. Sometimes climbing on the top of the pulimaram , to touch the topmost branch , to feel the wind . Sometimes stretching out on the flat, square piece of rock that covered the empty well inside the rubber thottam , enjoying the hot sun. Days that are filed under the label “Funny and Lovely “ inside my mind.

Those days aren't coming back, are they :).

After school, Christmas was a day when everyone was home, the whole day spent in front of the TV watching the Christmas special movies. A break from exams and college, time spent curled up with a book, time spent playing a lot of games on the computer. I don't remember much about those days, everything revolved around The College. The rest of the days are blurred when i look back. Maybe i will remember those days when a year or two passes by.

It was all different this time. This time, Christmas was with friends - and you have to be incredibly lucky to have the likes of them as friends.

Christmas was one long eating session. There was wine there were cakes - both Kurian-made and Kurian's-mom-made. There was the Great Lunch of 2007 .Nothing fancy - fried rice, chicken ( i don't remeber the name of the preparation - i was busy eating you know), the experimental Meen Pollichathu , onion-tomato raita, chocolate pudding ( yum yum ) , gulab jamoons . Aaaaaah. It was a Good Thing (TM).

Then the sleepy trip to Shankhumugham, sunset, the spiciest of mulaku bajji ever, back to ICH -Statue and a mutton omlette + lemon juice.

And when i got home, the supper was waiting. The perfect supper. Rice, meen curry, maracheeni and poricha meen.Then the crash to bed and a nice dreamless sleep.

Christmas this year was 'finger licking good'.