CHAPTER 10

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Khushi had woken up early, took her bath and went to the kitchen. She turned on the kitchen light. Washed her hands and starts prepping the vegetables and her items. She tried her possibly best to be quite so she wouldn't wake anyone up. After prepping her veggies and rearranging her items to cook.

She smiled when she saw the medium pots hariprikash left for her. She informed him prior.

First she starts washing her chicken, she bought 6 pieces of full chicken. She marinated with herbal spices and covered and kept in the fridge.

She starts washing her rice and starts cooking in a low heat. She chopped and diced her onions, garlic, ginger, tomato, carrots, cabbage, bell peppers and etc into a big bowl and kept aside.

She removed the marinated chicken and beef. Cuts into reasonable sizes and fried some chicken, grilled the rest.

She starts preparing her curry mix for the rice whiles preparing to start cooking panipuri and beef biryani.

She was multi-tasking, by 3hours she had prepared rice with curry and vegetables, panipiri, beef biryani, fried chicken, grilled chicken and grilled beef. She kept them in a heated flask.

She starts to wash her dishes when she saw Arnav staring at her in disbelief.

"You scared me." she whispered and Arnav glared at her.

"I told you to wake me up when you are to start,." he accused.

"I'm sorry, I didn't want to disturb you. I started at 3am."she said as she washed the dishes. Arnav walked closer and starts rinsing, she was surprised but kept quiet as she washed and he rinsed.

She brought out her next ingredient for cooking, she boiled spaghetti and starts chopping the ingredients for the sauce.

"Let me do it whiles you continue." Arnav said khushi just nods and she washed her hands thoroughly before bringing out breadflour. She mixed all ingredients into butter formula and starts frying the sweets.

"Can you stir fry the ground beef?" Khushi asked as she turned the sweet in the hot oil.

"Yeah." she watched as he brought out the pan and drizzled it with oil. He took off the pasta from the fire and sieved the water out and kept aside. He poured the ground beef with the spices and lowered the heat and starts turning, khushi smiled before getting back at work. She was done since it was a small portion before she brought out another floor for the cake mix. Arnav  stir gently till it cooked before he poured the tomatoe sauce in it.

"Khushi, check it out." Arnav called and she walked over to him. She scooped a little in her hands and nods, she adds a pinch of salt stir.

"You can turn off the gas." she said and he obeyed. He assembled the soiled utensils and washed.

Khushi had started off with the cake mixture, vanilla and chocolate. She carefully placed them in the oven and starts making the icing.

"Whats next for me?" Arnav asked.

"The fruits, wash slice into pieces and blend. Fruit juice." she eloborates, Arnav nods and joined her.

He washed the fruits as he was told and starts cutting and putting it in a tray.

"Khushi." Arnav called, she walked to him, she was beside him.

"The pineapple, how do you I remove those." he asked.

"here." she demonstrated. Arnav nods in understanding. Khushi went back to whatever she was doing.

She continues with roti. Rolling and turning. Arnav had finished whatever he was doing.

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