The other day we had a potluck party in office. I heard this term back in India, but well never attended any such parties before! And boy, it was fun!

The only catch was that everyone had to bring in some home-cooked food! Mind you, I can cook a lot of stuff and that too of such a high quality that - tumhe tumhare maa ke hath ke khaane ki yaad aa jaye!! But well, jis din kismat kharab ho na,, ooonth (camel) pe baith kar bhi jao to bhi kutta kaat leta hai! Same happened with me that day, i mean i din ride the camel, but something similar happened!

Here in Romania, the fun point in the lives of these guys is to write everything in Romanian and then sit back and enjoy! Using my awful translation capabilities, i took Maida instead of Atta, as everything on the wrapper was written in Romanian, and maida and atta both somehow translate to wheat flour! The real drama begin when i got up in the morning of Potluck party!

Somehow, i felt, that there was something wrong with the dough i made! It was fucking damn sticky, instead of the cute and innocent atta dough! Playing around with oil and dry maida, i made a parantha! And hold your breath! I understood the real problem as the parantha did not turn red like the atta parantha!! It became like a naan! Daimnit!

Being an amateur in the field of cooking, and an expert in the field of eating, i knew that by the time i reach office, maida parantha will turn into a rock, solid and heavy, which can be used as a paperweight or better to smash it on the head of the anti-national Arundhati Roy! Apni izzat ka to aaj faluda hone wala tha mamu! But then, bade bade desho me aisi choti choti baaten hoti rehti hain!! :D :D

As guru furobiker once said - when luck is not on your side, jugaad helps!

The other day, i had got these semi cooked, ready made paranthas from the super market! Yeah, you guessed it right, i had to qurbaan my beloved effortless semi-cooked paranthas to save my bachi kuchi izzat :D But it was fun, nevertheless! Well, at the end of the day, i have no clue what all i ate, because the names of all the dishes my colleagues made were in Romanian, but yeah, add some spices, some more desi ghee and bingo, the dishes were super awesome! :D :D :P

Anyways, now there is 1.5 kgs of maida sitting at home, and i dont know what to do with it? Any tips? (recipes?)