The Eid Post

Due to the busiest schedule on and after Eid, I could not post any thing. So first deserves the Eid Post :)

Alhamdulillah, this Eid was surely the most memorable eid at our home. We have actually celebrated two eids this year. Just one day before Eid, the result of my brother's final year had been declared and he has officially become a Doctor of Pharmacy. I have been teasing him by calling him 'doctor sab' haha...the expressions come on his face hearing this title are utterly cute and entertaining. Can you believe, he shies away to listen 'doctor sab'. My God! when will my baby brother become a Man :P .

We have passed  literally a difficult time with him. My father wanted him to become a physician. Although he wanted to go for engineering, his childhood dream but he respected my father's wish and tried for it.  Tried sincerely hard but could not get the admission in MBBS just with the margin of few percentage. When you lost the chance of MBBS, there are not left much opportunity to go with. It was extremely difficult time. My brother lost courage and enthusiam and father considered himself responsible for all this. But thank God, the tough time had passed. He got the title anyway :P and I hope he will soon get the suitable job inshAllah. He has started some work already mashAllah. So doctor sab! my prayers are with you. I wish you all the best :) and you know I will stand by you forever. But I will not leave my money which  you have borrowed :|

O haan I was telling about the Eid activities. I made sheer khurma on chaand raat and as usual it turned out utterly delicious mashAllah. Nani gave me Rs 100 for that effort.

Sheer Khurma sponsored by Olpers Milk and others.

On first day of Eid, I handled all the meat with my father and distributed it among the family, friends, neighbours and others. Papa gee kept telling me how to make three parts of meat and how to distribut it all. Due to my excellent skills of management and quality of generosity, the meat finished before the evening and mom started yelling at me about the important families who have to live this year without our distributed meat.I am sorry for that.

Check this one!

No no you took me wrong. It's not about giving the proof that we did qurbani alhamdulillah this year too hehe. Actually I wanted to show you the cloth under the meat. See the yellow cloth with something written on it. See it again?

The story of the Cloth under the Meat:

A year before, once on a windy and a bit stromy day, my brother returned home after offering prayer in Masjid (mashAllah, he's very punctual) with this yellow piece of cloth. It fell down in his feet due to the blowing wind. My brother took it to home. It is actually a banner of a school in Lahore called Adabistan-e-Sofia School. The banner was quite huge and of a very good fabric. My brother folded it and kept it in the store for rainy day. Not only this, he also took off another poster of the school which was pasted on our front wall. Some Quranic Ayas were printed on it. He cut it off and pasted it on the door of his room. Will post the pic soon.

At that time we laughed at him alot on keeping the banner for the rainy day. But on Eid, we have to admit and appreciate his anticipation and aqalmundi when my mother couldn't d find out some faded torn off bed sheet and my brother brought it out and presented to us with extreme pride. So we happily put meat on it and enjoyed the distribution. Under each boti, there lied attractive packages which Adabistan-e-Sofiais was offering for toddlers. I read many of them to my father. So the distribution ceremony finished in fun.

Moral of the story:
Sometime tads do right things but sometime.

In the Evening, I went to the most of the relatives's homes and tasted every thing they had served. There were variety of dishes, yummyyy....At night, my stomach refused to accept even a sip of water.

Next day was dedicated to the kitchen. I made biriyani and booti kabab.

 

The boti kabab are different from the simple shami kabab which are made of qeema. The boti kabab are made of small pieces of meat, not qeema. They are difficult to handle. I made them for the first time and thank God they turned out very tasty. Papa liked them most. Biriyani was also appreciated by everyone but I personally didn’t like it this time.See the pic, I terribly mixed them and broke the rice evetually :( . I always have this problem in the end. Any suggestion?


On Third day of Eid, I tried Hunter Beef. on my dear doctor saab's farmaiysh with little variation. hmm...not little recipi kafi change ki thi. 

Of course it's not the real pic

One day before, I marinated the beef steak in yogurt with all the spcies and kept it in fridge. Then next day, put it on the stove without water and forgot it till the evening. When steak got tender, I sent it to the near by shop for grilling. Oh God, it was so yummy. Cant tell you in words. My bro was quite happy on the attempt and I think it was for the first time. he always finds mistakes in my dishes :x



At night of the third day, I found some time for myself and applied the henna on my hand. I wanted to apply this design: 

but ended up with this:

And I always do that. Com'on I dont exactly know how to hold the cone of the menhdi, so dont accept me to make any complicated design. Now you will ask, why this sqaure? Read below!


Story behind the Square of Menhdi:


Before each eid, I always spend hours in finding good looking design and always, always end up with tikky design. So on last Eid, I made this one:

See how much beautiful it is looking. I always love it. But my phupu gave a very hard time on last eid. She snubbed me alot by saying "why do you always apply this design of prostitutes'?". And my heart broke in little pieces. matlab some henna designs are now attributed for those poor gals. See how much rude and racist she is. I dont like her. She always comes up with such baseles objections. 
That's why I tried the square design this time. But shockingly, she didn't approve it too. hai koi baat...khair who cares.
Moral: You cannot oblige the world, especially women called phupho.

And my eid dress it was npt that bad. It was a present from my sis who got this embroidery from Multan. Although I didn't like the color but embroidry was awesome.

So that was all from my side. Do share with me how  you did spend your eid days.