Rains and hot onion Pakodas.

june is here,rains are detected and smelled,four in the eve high winds and lightning and thunder and the first big fat hot drops fall. rain water is not like watering the garden,its something else and the plants know it. Dust from four months are washed from the trees and the leaves shine. season for oleanders and hibiscus to bloom. some years i have counted thirty flowers in one hibiscus bush. time to go walk in the rain, though not the first one as it may contain lots of acid and carbon then its time to make onion pakodas. if one has a maid who can do all the cutting it will be jolly but if one has company one can do it. Cut onions ginger curry leaves finely. take besan,rice flour four to one proportion add salt, red chilli powder.Heat one ladle of oil in a pan pour it to the besan mixture add a little water, make a dough, not too soggy. heat oil in a pan deep fry the batterin small quantities. take out when they are brown let it cool. sit in a bay window overlooking yr garden or balcony with ketchup and eat with lots of banter laughter and conversation. Skip dinner..