Blast From The Past Thread #4, Epi 62 Pg 139 - Page 6

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Episode 52

What's Cooking?

Buaji says to Kushi you want to open a sweet shop? Aunt think about it, I already have. She thinks of a name. The girls run over to her. She is the best aunt! I am your only aunt! Haha. Buaji says she was kidding about the name of the bakery the bakery should be named by the one who has inspired it. Jai Devi Maa Bakery. What a nice name! She thinks about her father and it will take time before their bakery will make money to help their father. It will take off right? They all have confidence in Kushi. Group hug! Kushi will be cooking up some major sweets that her Goddess has inspired.

Mami and Lavanya are in the kitchen. What's cooking ladies? Did you add salt? Mami asks Lavanya, who doesn't remember. La goes to taste but the food is too hot for her to taste. Such a delicate flower she is.

Kushi, Payal, Buaji and Happy Singh are setting up the bakery. Buaji says look at the smile on her face she will have no need to make jalebi any longer! Group hug. Kushi starts making jalebi. She thanks Devi Maiya for not going on vacation and for giving her the idea and courage to take up the idea. She blesses her jalebi batter before she begins. (As a sidebar, I am now a baker by trade and have rituals that I do before baking so I very much appreciated Kushi's prayer to Devi Maiya before starting!)

La tastes the food when Nani walks in. She thinks she is Mami. Mami was here asks Nani? Mami is hiding behind a column in the dining area. Nani asks where is the dam aloo. Lavanya looks at Mami. She indicates it is on the stove. Nani asked if she boiled the potatoes. La repeats, potatoes? She looks at Mami who plays charades with her- the pressure cooker. Nani wants her to make another dish. Look whose got to cook now!

The desserts are prepared and the ladies are waiting and waving away the bugs. Where is everybody? They were suppose to come and buy all the desserts. Someone comes and they come together like three cats waiting to pounce on their mouse. They have a smile on their face waiting to serve him whatever sweet he wants. A little too pushy for this man he runs away.

Nani is being a little pushy too. She wants to know the ingredients for the dish she asked La to prepare. Mami continues to play charades with La and thank DM that Laxmi came when she did to distract Nani.

The kids come to the bakery and Kushi gives them all a jalebi. They're just kids buaji she says. Buaji is calling out for all to come.

At the RM it's time to taste the food, table is set. Anjali inhales the food and says it smells so good. La says when she concentrates on something then it is good. Everything looks good. Mami says of course look who's cooking! Uh, oh, um teaching! Everyone comes to the table, wow, so many dishes, we are hungry. It smells great, lavanya has cooked the food! Nani comes. Uh, oh.

'Come and buy the goodies! Lucknow sweets have come to Delhi', Buaji shouts. Noone is coming but finally someone on a motorcycle buys a jalebi. That sale has motivated the girls. They are encouraging people to come and sample their sweets. One taste and that's all you need. These sweets are that good. Who's cooking that's what does it! Two women come and Kushi serves them their dessert on newspaper. The headline reads ARNAV SINGH RAIZADA THE BUSINESS TYCOON, she sees it, startles at first and then anger sets in and she slams the dessert, realizing what she is doing in front of these women she folds it up and hands it to them. She gets a little disheartened. They are trying very hard to sell their sweets but he is on her mind again.

Lavanya serves Nani, she tastes and she asks if she has prepared all this. Mami asks who else did an angel come down from heaven to help? They do in my bakery! Nani says since you prepared this dish can you tell me the ingredients.

The day has ended for the bakery. Many sweets are left over. There have been only 10-20 customers that won't do. Kushi tells Payal that it is just the beginning and don't worry. Happy apologizes too. All will be well.

Nani is still interrogating Lavanya. She tells her two ingredients and Mami rattles off the rest. Mami says I just helped a little. Nani already knows this because two people cannot make the same tasteless food. She asks why she didn't add cinnamon and mami chimes in again saying she put 2 sticks in. Oops! Slip of the tongue. Who did the cooking? "What did you think Ms. Kashyup that I wouldn't find out the truth? You don't dress appropriately and don't know how to speak to elders properly. And today you lied." Lavanya runs from the table ashamed. Arnav asks Nani what she wants. Di tries to talk, he says "She doesn't even give her a chance, she is trying." Nani says, Chote and he cuts her off, "enough Nani" and he leaves the table.

What's cooking? I say TROUBLE!

Originally posted by: ..Anita..

episode 52!!!!!

the guptas' name their store after devi maiya because she is the one who gave this brilliant idea to khushi...the next day the guptas prepare their mithai store (thanks sohara for telling me the spelling) in that empty space in bedi ji's garage. They start off the day setting up and making mithais by happily but as the day progressed they were losing confidence. And then some really creepy guy comes and the three guptas stand and wait for him to order, bua ji shows him all the sweets and scares him away ( i don't blame him, she looked scary) they further lose their confidence. then kids appeared and khushi gave them one jalebi each...bua ji was like wth, and khushi then said they are kids let it go. Then these two guys come on a bike and ask for jalebis...they were their first customer and their confidence came back with full force...khushi was handing sweets to some ladies and then she spots a picture of arnav in a newpaper. she gets angry and puts some chutney on the picture of arnav as well as the mithai...the ladies gave her a weird look. At the end of the day, bua ji and payal were upset that there were a lot of sweets left over but khushi being optimisitic said it is just the first day and it will get better!!! i respect her optimism here.

Now on the lavanya and her impress nani mission. Mami asked if la finished her task and la being clueless did nothing...mami ji is like i thought having her would help her cause but not she is regretting helping her. As la was talking to mami, nani appear and mami disappeared...Nani was asking la question about cooking and mami was helping her from behind the pillar ( i like that she was helping la but too bad she had a selfish reason for helping her). Nani asked her to make malai kofta and now mami ji is sad that she has to make more things. In the dining area, everyone was saying that the food smells good...mami ji gets happy because they are indirectly complimenting her and was trying really hard not to say that she made the food. Nani comes to the table and for a brief second she seemed proud that la cooked all this food...she tested her and asked what was in it and mami ji was talking for la and nani figured it out. So nani asked if she put 2 1/2 spoons of sugar (i thing they said sugar and that was the amount...i forgot what they said, i am going off of memory here) and mami ji was like i did put that..and then mami and la was caught for lying...nani was mad that la lied about cooking the food and yells at her...la leaves crying...arnav felt bad for her...i have to say arnav cares for la because he felt bad that she got yelled at...arnav gets angry and tells nani that atleast la is trying...and angrily walks off

Originally posted by: ArshiHamesha

Here are my pondering thoughts about 51 & 52

AND 49& 50 and all the recent ones

Episode 51-52

Episode 49-50

Episode 48

Episode 47

Episode 45-46

Episode 44

Episode 43

Episode 42

Thnx

❤️ArshiHamesha

Originally posted by: ArshiHamesha

Nice one Anita.Blue are the major points.Black underlined YES thats why I loved my Sanka Devi❤️ always POSITIVE and happy to keep everyone happy around her.Sometimes I feel for this poor soul.Mami and La nautanki was too OTT at some points.Arnav's ultimatum to leave the house is going to bring some spice.❤️

Originally posted by: goofy

@Indi Di

Thank you for keeping the thread alive for ppl like me.I don't comment that much but read all of you ladies.You all are awesome .I mean it.Your insights are more than the show and I agree with you [I read in one of your posta] Channel and PH should read this thread.It offers much much more than anybody can expect that.

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Originally posted by: cinthiann1758

Disclaimer:I would like to acknowledge that all my translations have been found on You Tube Videos translated by Alexa. All credit of translation and my interpretation of her work is acknowledged. All work I consider to be my own with the help of the translation. If work is used please credit. Thank you all for reading!

Episode 51

Solutions

Anjali is tying her thread when she believes she sees Shyam but before you know it he disappears. Was he there? She goes out to the car and Arnav is near the Gupta house just looking at the locked door. That locked door has unlocked the memories of Kushi in his mind. He looks so sad. She asks him what he is doing there. He ignores her. She tells him she thinks she saw his Jiju. "Why would he be here? Let's go." He looks one last time at the locked door as Anjali is getting into the car. The solution would be to leave all his regret behind those locked doors. As they are leaving the colony they run into Shyam. Anjali tells Arnav to stop the car and rings Shyam on the phone. Shyam answers and they get out of the car. Just in the nick of time, some fellow Shyam knows, passes by and stops to talk with him. He shoos him away and both Anjali and Arnav approach. Shyam blabbers about working for the guy in the stand trying to get his pension problems solved and that is why he is here. Yes, that is his solution for an excuse of why he is in this colony. He apologizes to Anjali because he had to "work". She tells him he takes care of everybody. Let's go. As both the men are getting into the car they both are affected by the locked Gupta house, Kushi's solution was leaving Delhi.

Lavanya is working in the kitchen and crying because she is chopping onions. She is fixing her face and complaining that she should have worn waterproof makeup. Mami is beside herself since Miss Lavanya has absolutely no talent in the kitchen. Mami's solution to this problem is giving her menial tasks which Lavanya just can't do. Mami finally gives her the flour to make the roti, all she will have to do is add water and mix. NOT. Lavanya doesn't want to get her nails ruined so her solution is to use two spoons. Mami tells her it wont be ready until her golden jubilee and airhead Lavanya says you have been married for 50 years? Great, congratulations! Mami says she will make the roti as well. Lavanya should cut some coconut for garnish. How much trouble could she get into with that task? Lavanya tries to open the coconut with a butter knife. The pressure cooker whistle blows and she is startled an up in the air goes the knife and down it comes landing between Mami's toes. Mami is very happy she only used a butter knife and not a chef knife!

Uncle Rahim is waiting outside of Nani's room and out comes Laxmi so he goes running after her calling her name waking Naniji. She gets up and goes to check on Lavanya.

In the taxi Buaji gives Kushi jalebi for the train ride to Lucknow. She doesn't want her to eat it now. She mentions to Kushi that it is cooking and preparing jalebi that Kushi finds solutions to her problems. Maybe she will find the solution just by eating the sweets. That's it! Kushi asks Buaji to come closer and she hugs her. She tells the taxi driver to turn back. She found her solution!

Mami thanks Lavanya for doing something wrong, using the butter knife otherwise she would have been dead! Nani wants to know if anyone is there? Mami asks if Lavanya added sugar to the milk and she says she did she added one less because she knows Arnav doesn't like it. Instead of not adding any because he can't have it she added one less tablespoon. Arnav watch out this girl is going to kill you! Mami's solution to this situation is that she needs help because her son's future depends on it!

The Gupta's are home sweet home! Kushi asks Happy if Mr. Bedi is around she needs to speak to him about space in the garage. She is going to open a Candy Store! She is jumping up and down so excited.

In Arnav's car Anjali gives him the drape to place around his mirror. He takes it remembering saving Kushi's flying Goddess in the store room. Shyam places it around the mirror.

Buaji tells Kushi that preparing sweets is not easy and Kushi says that they can do it for thye neighborhood and make the offerings for the mandir. She says she prayed for a sign and DM gave her this jalebi as the solution to the problem. Lots of people will buy. Say yes Buaji, say yes. Buaji is thinking "Madhumita Mishtan Bandar" sounds like a nice name for a bakery!

Now that's a solution!

Originally posted by: samin6

Actually you got a part right- It is made by frying potatoes and then making it into a curry and any ways Aloobhaji tastes far better and is much less complicated.