#1: ##8: An Experience

Guys before I start writing today's brief, I want to tell you the going is getting tough. There are weekends, there are special days, there are days you feel blue and getting an idea is difficult and implementing it is another story altogether!

So yesterday was my husband's birthday and it was after 3 years we were together to celebrate his birthday. And as it is I am quite enthusiastic about birthdays and anniversaries and all that crap! I know it means nothing to an enlightened mind like my husband's but for poor earthlings like me, it still calls for celebration. We could not decide what to do until 8 in the evening. We sort of had plans of going out but he hates non-Indian cuisines... well, most of them. The ones he sort of likes are Thai or Indo-chinese because they are similar to Indian food in terms of spices. So well, at 8 we decided that we will sit at home and eat parathas and watch a movie - that is our favourite thing anyway.

We decided to step out and get some coke or something to accompany our food because at least it should seem like we had a "fine" dinner. No alcohol for both of us. I am just rehabilitating myself from an addiction (hehehe) and he is trying to control his triglycerides. So we got zero cal beverages to accompany our food. And while all this was happening, my creative juices started flowing and I decide to create a small experience by putting together whatever I had at home. 

So I decided to have a small three course meal along with our drink. No cakes for him (triglycerides, remember?) but we needed a cake and a candle to blow and make it seem like birthday-ish. Took 2 hours to put the three course meal together, accompanied my husband to the store to get coke, set up the table and took a few photographs. I do not want to show my face as yet, so will omit the ones which has my face in it but here are the two photos that shows the trick I pulled to make our 'stay at home dinner' a little special. It wasn't the food, it wasn't the decor. I feel it was just how I responded to a chance of making dinner on a special evening and hence it deserved its place on this blog.(Oh no, that is not screaming narcissism!) 

For those interested, the menu was:

Starters: Oven roasted garlic mushrooms

Main course: Curd and Gobi Paratha

Sweet: Waterchestnut (singada) flour halwa 

Drinks: Zero cal Fanta (for him) and Coke (for me)

Cake: Sara Lee cupcake :) 

Here is the pic of the celebration

And I also grabbed the opportunity to use my white flower to enhance the aesthetic appeal of my dining table! :)