The weekend, kids and some yummy food!

No, we are not announcing that we have kids or expecting one! This weekend, we went to visit my cousin B and her family who've recently moved to Greenville. It was a perfect outing for A and me. Just 2 hours away from Atlanta, in desperate need for some weekend company, things worked out well. Meeting family, good food, conversations on warm couches with chai and crisps, kids running around, old photos, shared memories...it was just the thing we needed.

Oh did I tell you that my niece and nephew are the smartest and the cutest things in this world? I took a carrot-zucchini cake for them, and they totally enjoyed it. These kids are marvellous. They eat anything thrown at them. In fact, my niece takes after my dad's family and me ;) and eats just pickles. And she is all of 3 odd years! Here is her super smart son, a mighty 6 years old.

So, B kept on cooking wonderful meals for A and me, and finally on Saturday night, before we hit the downtown, we all craved for noodles. The Indo-Chinese ones :P Though A and I try out various cuisines and are foodies in the true sense of the word, we had not tried out noodles at home. B effortlessly threw in linguini and all other noodly looking food in boiling water and stir fried some veggies, and before I knew it, I had a steaming bowl of noodles in front of me! This post goes out to her - a super mom, and a responsible wife and a great cousin ;) Thanks!

Ingredients

1.5 packets whole grain spaghetti (linguini)
1 cup chopped carrots
1 cup chopped onions
1/2 cup chopped bell peppers
1/2 cup chopped cauliflower
Tomato- chilli sauce (as much as you want, really!)
4 tbsp Soy sauce
4 tbsp oil (more than enough for 4 adults and 2 hungry, 'we love noodles' kids!)
Magic sauce ;) for which we need-
- Tamarind pulp
- Chilli powder
- Salt to taste
Mix these ingredients to make a watery sauce like mixture and pour when you cook these noodles!

Want to eat some? Here is how you make it!

1. Boil the noodles with 1 tbsp oil and 1 tsp salt. Set them aside.

2. In a wok, heat 3 tbsp oil. Add the vegetables and fry them until well done.

3. Add salt, soy sauce, the tom-chi sauce and the 'magic sauce' ;) Mix well.

4. Add the noodles and mix well. Let everything cook for 10-15 mins.

5. Serve hot without flipping it all over the table like I did!

The kids ate them with bare hands sitting on the table :) Just shows good they were! Well, we used forks but we were no less than the kids!

Of course, you could add cabbage or peas or spring onions in this recipe. She just did not have them at hand, so we did without it. Also, she did not add ajinomoto for purely health reasons, and we certainly did not miss it! In fact, we craved for more noodles and we came back home on Sunday night and ate Maggi noodles :D