A cake well baked!

i baked my first cheesecake today. i woke up late (as usual). And then started on it. Spent about an hour getting everything together. And it is de-li-cious!! i kept it in the oven to cool down and it got a bit more browned that i would have liked. But it is yummy.

i made kelichana in the morning. i don't know what possessed me to put tomatoes in it. It was OK but somehow it didn't live upto my expectation. i will try again without the tomatoes. Why would anyone put tomato in kelichana??!

i was thinking about the many manipuri dishes i don't know how to cook. i mean, i can do briyani, ilish paturi, vindaloo, malai prawn curry, barbecued baby pork ribs, beef nihari...ok, ok, i am blowing my own trumpet!! i trawl the net for recipes and try out the recipes i take a fancy to. i wish i could prepare "pakora thongba", or "chagem pomba" (i love chagem pomba even though i am not a fan of "hawai zar"-fermented soyabean..go figure) or ooti with ushoi, or "kanglayen paknum". i think this time when i go home, i will get the recipes from my mother dear. You know, i never liked "ngari" (dried fish) when i was a kid. Somehow, i could never get used to the smell. So i missed out on "eromba" for the first 16 years of my life. The first time i had eromba was some thousand miles away from home. Can you beat that? But i can cook real good "sareng atoiba", "porong" and "ukabi thongba". i miss all those yummy dishes. And i miss home.

i decided i would not work in the weekend. i need to rest. As it is, i know the coming week is going to be a killer. So i might as well loll around when i can, sleep with books and wake up with a hangover of dreams.

i dream of you
And wake up drenched in your love
i reach out to touch you
And empty space is all i get