Of mid afternoon snacks.

My mother was a perfect example of working woman. Getting up by 5.15 am and starting the day, with our dabbas, lunch, fresh hot breakfast every day (like poha,upma,idli and dosa) and getting impeccably dressed to rush to the office on dot.buying vegetables and coming home after a real long day to prepare another dinner, all freshly made from the scratch.the dinner would be sureshot be ready by 8.00 pm. How did she manage this feat single handedly only god knows. In between she used to make chips etc for us over hungry children. What I learned from her is perfectionism and time management. We will leave “aai puran” for some other time.
So on a Saturday (when aai had half day) or Sunday afternoon or early morning, when we used to be hungry and not interested in having something readymade. After mock irritation aai used to get up and prepare something. Kailoli or dadpe poha, gul pohe or appe. Sometimes roomali vadi (depended on chaas availability J) or onion bhajjis if we were lucky. I loved dadpe pohe so much that I used to take it for my german class as mid morning snack, though I used to get few morsels of it after my friends raided on it. Then there was kailoli that I used to almost gorge straight from the tava, huffing to let out the steam. Sometimes she would make crispy idli chura or chapatti chura, which never seemed enough.
If you are wondering what is kailoli, it is a kind of dosa made only from rice flour, chopped onions,coriander, finely chopped green chilly and salt. This dough was then ladeled to make a thin “uttapa” on the pan. Drizzled lightly with oil and cooked from both sides, it was simply mindblowing the fresh taste of onion and fragrance of coriander with small bombs of chillies. Indeed this is one dish, so simple and so easy to make, something that I almost always prefereed. Next to dadpe pohe ofcourse