Here is a song I tribute to Urmila Sahu after I ate the sweets she gave me at Arlington.
“Santosh Dash what about your trip to Washington D.C?… we are expecting few lines on Bundi… 🙂 “ This comment in FB prompted me to pen today’s post. Besides meeting my son Sanjay who had a conference at D.C, I was lucky to meet Sanjay’s smart friend Duc Luu and his beautiful wife Zara. After having great Vietnamese lunch at “Four sisters” we said good bye and went to meet Urmila Sahu at the Starbucks. I have met her few times in big gathering and knew that she is a passionate cook. I love to eat and have a fascination and respect for people who can cook simple yet delicious food. Cooking has many benefits, including being a creative outlet and a stress reliever. As a cook, she has learned to add her own personal flair to recipes through extensive trial and error. There are no limits for her when it comes to make our traditional Odia “bundia” or oblong Gulab Jamun. She has mastered to make the rose cake a culinary art with her kind, compassionate hand and heart. In my eye she has become an expert who can put together the dramatic attraction of cooking procedure from selecting and preparing materials to cutting, steaming, and decorating the food. Posting here a picture of her delicious gift to me (yellow, red bundia rose cake and gulab jamun). From last night I have eaten 4 or 5 times each sweets thinking that it is Monday and I must do fasting and eat only sweets with some Indian chapatti. Oh, yes tomorrow it will be Tuesday and I have to look for some other excuse. Thank you Urmila for making my day so cheerful with your delicious sweets. Your bhaina says you made the best bundi and gulab jamun which means you have the A+. Ha, ha.