Hi
My name is Smart Kookie.
My real name does not matter. Nor does it matter that once upon a time I was a living nightmare in the kitchen, where the so called “kitchen” was buried beneath piles of vegetable peels, mountains of leftovers and housed a refrigerator which stank like garbage from two weeks. I knew next to nothing in cooking and much less about how to maintain a bright and clean kitchen. It was all oh-so-very-sad-and-bad (for my family members).
But all that was so long ago. I knew I had really hit the bottom when I found neighbourhood dogs making my kitchen their favourite haunt as all kinds of foods was available not just in the refrigerator but also on the floor, in the sink, outside the kitchen window, on the living room sofa….just about everywhere. I even remember rolling on the ground and biting the dust in a dog fight (literally) with a mangy dog from the street over a piece of juicy leftover burger from some swanky restaurant. That’s when I decided enough was enough. If anyone ruled my kitchen it would be me!! I woke up one miraculous day and decided to become the smartest homemaker there is and be a Smart Kookie- so smart that I can even start a blog of my own on how to be a Smart Kookie. So here I am
Before I begin telling you how I became a Smart Kookie, let me announce the good news that anyone who has been a not-so-smart-Kookie earlier but has become a Smart Kookie now are welcome to write in their own experiences and we will flash your photo and blog under “This week’s Smart Kookie” banner. So do write in telling us why you think you are a Smart Kookie (SK from now on) or how you became an SK.
How I became a Smart Kookie?
This week I am only going to go into the basics. How I cleaned my kitchen.
First thing first I allotted an entire day for clearing the debris off my kitchen.
Things I found in the kitchen
- 20 empty use and throw bottles
- 30 pieces of rags of different sizes to use for wiping
or something (which I never did anyway).
- 65 cheap quality polythene covers
- Strings and papers stored deep inside kitchen draws in
the hope that they would be used sometime somewhere.
- Rotting pickles inside the fridge, which had some dangerously
slimy layer of whitish fluid floating on the top.
- Gas stove which had some gluey sticky substance all around
it, so much so I had to use a knife to scrape the crusty thing off.
- Hardened salt.
- Atta with an insect or two in it.
- Soggy vegetables inside the fridge
Oh! The rest are just too shameful to mention. If your kitchen has even one of the
above, then it is time you began to take this Smart Kookie seriously and began reading
her blog. Also if you know of any not-so-smart Kookie in your life then it is important
that you send this blog url to your friend immediately as a goodwill gesture.
To come back to the story…..oh! someone is at the door. Also it is lunch time. These
days I eat only freshly prepared food.
Today’s menu is
Stuffed brinjal tossed in oil, with garlic and tomato mash, phulkas, lime rice and
gulab jamuns.
Forgive me dearies, but I will come right back to tell you how I really cleaned
out my messy kitchen and began my life afresh.
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