please welcome… prashant bhardwaj… the COOK 🙂

while i can cook ideas and naughty acts in my brain… i can successfully manage to feed myself with a fresh nice “made with some help” chilled pasta salad as well…

it all started in eatopia… i wonder how many things would start from there…. one of my affairs about 3 years back… the ODM… and now the pasta salads… when i ate the pasta salad there… and really liked it… and wanted to make it myself…

sayantani was there to help with the list of things i needed before i could make it… and i managed to buy the capsicum… or the bell peppers as she calls it… green ones; some carrots… and hara dhaniya… on saturday itself…

now the hunt for the right kind of pasta started on sunday afternoon… and ended at store-18, which now is my favorite store for things i need… because 1. they take cards, and 2. i got all i needed there.. including the mayonese, the pasta, and some salsa sauce….

so back to my house ready to cook…

chopped the veggies, nicely… boiled the pasta for about 20 odd minutes with some salt and a few drops of oil… washed.. or rinsed with cold water…

took some mayonese… beat it… and then mixed it with the pasta… added some chilly flakes… some pepper… a li’il bit of salt… and the mexican salsa sauce… the veggies… i had “power boiled” the carrots as well before… and then some grapes too…

and chilled it for about 30 minutes… and then relished the treat… too bad mom could not share it… it was her fast yesterday.. and pa in any case eats only once.. so he could not comment either…

and because i really needed some comments so i took some to tushar… and i did not know that he does not really like pasta and all.. so it was a dull reaction from him too.. Preeti however told me that it tasted just fine… and i am happy that it was eatable !!!

so ladis and gentalmans… next time you really need to eat some nice pasta salad… please feel free to come over to my place… but… gimme a days’ notice so that i can get all the things i need to cook a good delicious salad for you 😉

ta tu…

and i have to go to gurgaon tmrw again… a drive of 50 kms one way !!! aargh !!!