I L ites lunch on 11th august 2007 & 13th Sep in Chennai

Dear Malathy,
Thanks for your nice words.
If only wishes were horses, I would be sending my home cooked food to every I L ite by turn !
I was waiting to try kalakand & Suratkari for quite sometime to post for deepavali. I just grabbed this opportunity !
Though for ever I am eternally repeating the same words, I can't help saying again
Thanks a ton for creating I L !
When you formed a new website, little would you have realised that you were laying the foundation for a strongly emotional global union !
Pray I L reaches great, greater & greatest heights !
Love,
Chithra.

Originally Posted by Induslady

Dear Chitvish,

PS: Chitvish, it 8:00am here, but I am hungry and drooling to taste your wonderful spread this early in the morning. Is it possible to Ziploc and FedEX?

Malathy

Dear Selvi,
If only I were in Chennai, on the day you landed here enroute to your place, I would have invited you & arranged a meet ! Well, let me hope for better luck next time !!
Love,
Chith.

Originally Posted by Selvi

Dear Chith, As always Im standing next to Malathy in line for the fedex..drooling..

Real nice pictures and great looking ladies.. Thanks for sharing with us. Have fun all!

Dear Meenu,
You are as endering in your words as ever !
The love & friendship, which I was looking for, all my life is suddenly avaailable in abundance for me in I L .
I want to enjoy it to the maximum, the rest of my life, God willing !
Love,
Chith.

Originally Posted by meenu

dear Chith,
I would go one step higher and say that you stand well above all ilites including the administrators.Your effortsin organising meets show how indefatigable you are.Having attended a coupleof your meets I can visualise the joy and laughter thier chatter must have brought.All the ladies look lovable and Latha sasi,i have definitely seenyou before,Wondering and racking my brains as to who.....................you are?
Regards,
Meenu

Dear Nivedi,
First thing first. Good that you are going to call me Chithu - you all have the knack of making me feel young in spirit !
To eat the food that has tempted you so much, you just have to visit Chennai at your earliest !
Thankyou for your F B.
Love,
Chithu.

Originally Posted by nivedi

Firstly, Chithu's (I am not going to address you as Ma'am anymore) agility in keeping us posted and sharing these lovely pic's is admirable.

Secondly it is so good to see the illuminated faces behind the user id's that we know of.

Thirdly - I am admiring the sarees and salwars which we get to see here so rarely.

And last - the food spread is so tempting.

Dear Tulasi,
So sweet of you to pay me a nice compliment !
Energy comes from inside, Tulasi ! Do I not owe it to all of you to give back something in return from the affection & goodwill from you all, I L ites?
Do come home when you visit Chennai next.
Love,
Chithra.

Originally Posted by Tulasi

wow Chitra mam, where do you get this kind of energy? may be you need to give me some. you host the dinners and you update all the pics in the site its awesome! very nice to see all the friends on the screen again!

Tulasi

Dear Sowmi,
Believe me, I did thnk a lot of our previous get together a few days back !
We should have taken a photo of the spread too, which we missed out !
There is always a next time !
Love,
Chithra.

Originally Posted by sowminivibu

hi chith

an aboslute feast to the eyes.....super snaps of all ILites and to top it the menu spread.....yummy,delicious and mouth watering.....i think i had missed a gud one

anyways i always have a gud chance next time....

lov
sowmi

Dear Sindhuja,
You are right - it is so interesting & enjoyable to see the faces behind the user names !
If the food tempts you so much, please make a trip to Chennai from " a, b" !
Love,
Chithra.

Originally Posted by Sindhuja

Dear Chitraji,
Thanks for posting the pictures. It's nice to see Ilites on the screen. Display of food on the table is so tempting .
regards,

Dear Sowmya Honey,
I have posted most of them except kalakand, suratkari, party karela, tandoor potatoes & raitha ! These will start their march towards Recipe Index shortly !
Love,
Chithra.

Originally Posted by honeybee

It is a marvellous sight to see so many ILites together.

Dear Chitra
That was a lovely spread.So when can we expect the recipes for the new dishes you have mentioned in the menu ?

Regards
Honeybee

Originally Posted by Induslady

Dear Chitvish,

I know my word 'Thank You' is going to sound very simple in front of all the time and efforts you put to host such a wonderful IL ites meet-up with a grand lunch. On top of it you keep us posted about it instantaneously.

Looks like Mrs. Cheeniya & Pushpavalli Srinivisan has joined you in making the lunch spread the more merrier. Thank you Mrs. Cheeniya (Cheeniya convey my thanks to her if you are reading this...) and Pushpavalli Srinivasan.

Varloo, special thanks in co-ordinating with the IL ites for this meet-up.

One more great thing about such meet-ups is that we get to see the faces behind the usernames with whom we have been interacting in this cyberspace.

Thank you to all those IL ites who made up to this meeting to make it a success. You are all rocking . Please come and share your experiences about meeting the co-IL ites in this meet-up.

PS: Chitvish, it 8:00am here, but I am hungry and drooling to taste your wonderful spread this early in the morning. Is it possible to Ziploc and FedEX?

Malathy

Dear Malathy,
My contribution to the lunch was very little compared to Chithra's untiring efforts to make the meet a grand success with mouth watering dishes and on top of it the hospitaliy that made everyone feel at home. We should thank you for making all these things happen. I too want to see the person who is using the remote control with the magic touch. In fact my hubby also was accompanying me as escort, but he had to get down on the way to attend a meeting regarding our temple and so he missed the great opportunity to meet the ILites and also the best lunch. So I believe strongly that " Man proposes and God disposes." Thanks a lot,
With love and best wishes,
Pushpavalli

Dear Chithra,
So you still had so much energy to post this thread with pictures, menu and all other details before any one could do it. In fact I was telling Laxmi on our way back that I would post a thread telling that we had a secret meet at Chennai! I wanted to create a suspense and you have spoiled the sport. So I have a score to settle with you! I'll be waiting for the opportune moment.
But to my disappointment we had returned home very late as my hubby was held up for a long time in the meeting. Now I find that all others had already posted everything in detail. Any way thank you all for saving me the trouble of keying in everything. But I missed a lot because I could not interact with everyone as we were a bit late. I could only say that we enjoyed the sevikku unavu ( Sriniketan's daughters' soulful music) kannukku virundhu ( the spread out of dishes on the table) and of course the ILites in fashionable churidars and sarees and the delicious dishes relished by taste buds!
Thank you one and all,
Pushpavalli