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We don't usually cook Indian food at home because we eat Iranian foods (mantu, kebab-naan, roasts, pilaffs) but when my mom does cook a recipie she got of her other Pakistani friends I HATE the smell, I don't come out of my bedroom till it's cooked and the house aired, even when we go out to an Indian resteraunt I don't eat anything because it looks and smells like diarrhea.
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Salan is pakistani, not indian well indian too but we are talking about pakistani food.
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irani food tastes like cardboard.
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Jamaican food smells nasty :yukh:
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I love chicken 
but I crave beef once in a while too 
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lagta hai unkil kaleem ne kissi mod ko rishwat dai kar mere posts delete karwa diye hain.................kaise musalman hain aap log....Rishwat daina aur laina dono haraam hain....
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Mahru, 
, both of your off topic bantering going back and forth were removed. Let’s try and stick to the topic instead of making digs at one another.
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^^ Thank you, MehnazQ. I was just joking around.
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Same here. Rain or shine, winter or summer, the windows are open while cooking and for about 1 hour afterwards. I also light agarbathi and use scented oils (Cranberry and Starfruit). Febreeze is also good and candles are a must. I hate the salan smell in my clothes, so all closet doors and bedroom doors are closed from the minute I start cooking. Also, to prevent myself from smelling like salan, I wear an old lab overcoat over my clothes and cover my hair with a shower cap. 
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~Tikhi Jalebi~
20 years from now, ur daughter would be behaving the same way u are. This is called paki culture, their houses smell of garam masala even when nothing is cooked.
Best I can advise is, move out. Get a flat or ur own place if u cannot tolerate. Although I'd suggest learn to tolerate it, because in few years time, you would be doing the same. Cooking at 11 or 11:30 with all masalay.
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its not necessary to start every thing with pyaaz laal (frying onions). a little expermentation in the order really helps and doesnt compromise taste. but, god forbid we desies used expermientation......... anywhere.
but the best remedy is to have a house with a separate kitchen or with a kitchen in the back so you can trap the smell. even the professional exhaust fans dont work when it comes to desi food odors.
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Are you a nurse?