A me-me and recipes that didnt..

My online buddy Sig of Live to Eat fame tagged me for my first ever Meme! The first time I saw this word online, I had to Google it as I had no clue what all these people were doing.. Now that I know what it is and I haven't done anything productive on this blog for over a week, I figured why not?! Maybe it will inspire me to blog soon.

OK, here goes, Sig...7 Random Facts about ME, MYSELF and MOI.

1. I love dogs. In fact, I love dogs even though I have been bitten by 4 of them during my childhood. I love German Shepard/Alsatians too. The 3 of the 4 dogs that bit me were German Shepards. I don't know why but they were always very ferocious and my love for them kept me going back for more. I survived just fine. A few tetanus shots here and there. That's all.
2. I gained weight during high school, lost it in college, gained weight in my mid twenties, lost it in my late twenties, gained weight in my early thirties, lost it almost in my mid thirties. Then I had twins. The saga is yet to finish but my point is that during all this up and down of weight loss, I had to get sari blouses stitched for all my sarees and every trip to India I would get some made for the "weight" I was at in all the usual colors (red, blue, green, black, yellow etc). Now, after all these years (almost 18 years) I still have my old skinny blouses, my fat blouses, my in-between blouses. I don't think Salvation Army would be happy with 100 blouses in various sizes. I should take them on my next trip to India but I haven't had the heart to let them go.
   
3. I love to read books but my only problem is once I start a good book, I pretty much ignore every other part of my life - bathing, sleeping, care taking. So I have to be very, very careful. I have resorted to reading bad books or parenting books lately. I don't have time to ignore all the important things in life at the moment.
   
4. My first ever "real" job was at Wendy's when I was 16. I almost got fired because I kept forgetting to wear my name tag every time. I had to clean the bathroom floors, refill salad dressings and make those shakes. For some reason (you guess why), I haven't entered a Wendy's in over 18 years.
   
5. I love to sleep in the morning. I am waiting for A & N's teenage years, they will have to fork lift me out of bed by noon because they would have just gotten up and would be mad at me for not springing brunch for them! A girl can dream right?
6. My all time favorite trip was to Burma (Myanmar) in 2004 on a bicycle tour. The countryside is gorgeous, the people are so humble and incredibly nice, the political situation grim. It made a huge impact on me.
7. I am an optimist. When things don't go my way, I find a way to make it work. With that I leave you with some photos of recipes that didn't or did but I never put up on my blog.
   

This was a lot of fun Sig! Thanks for taggin!

Here is my asparagus apricot curry that I never posted. It was pretty good. I just forgot to blog about it.

My fabulous Thai inspired Eggplant Curry for JFI Eggplant, again bogged down that I didn't finish my recipe.
A scrumptious pasta salad with sun-dried tomatoes, fresh herbs and feta cheese. Never survived the travels from SD card to computer to blog.
This beautiful looking pie tasted great but the pie never set and I had to call it Mango-Raspberry Custard.

Here you go my final, incomplete - Shaved Watermelon with white/blue sauce. A tribute to today's celebration of American Independence and supposed to be sent over to Bee & Jai for AFAM - Watermelon. My husband didn't think it was that "great" and I was too afraid to post the recipe in case you all found me and flogged me for incompetence. HAPPY JULY 4th All..

Edited to add per lovely Bee's request:
So I thought my shaved watermelon with bi-colored sauces was good and interesting. The kids loved licking the stuff off my fingers. My husband had a funny look when he ate the combo. His exclamation was - "oh the watermelon is so good! and I am neutral about this other stuff". So be warned that this recipe might not suit all tastes. I like the taste of creamy ricotta cheese and it always reminds of me ras malai (which i am a big fan of!) so any taste like that with two of my favorite fruits was a winner to me.

Recipe:
White Sauce:
2 heaping tablespoons Ricotta Cheese
2 tablespoons Condensed Milk
2 to 3 drops Almond Essence

Blue Sauce:
1/2 Cup blueberries
2 Teaspoons Condense Milk

Method:
Combine all ingredients for white sauce in a bowl and whip together to a smooth paste. Combine blueberries and condense milk and blend in a hand blender till smooth. Take a chilled watermelon, scoop out balls in a icecream scooper or melon ball scooper and serve in a bowl with both the sauces under and over the watermelon.


I tag Sandeepa, Roopa, Nabeela to carry on the meme, no biggies if you don't want to!