The author recounts a lifelong personal tradition of eating chapati shallow-fried in ghee for breakfast, a practice originating from their childhood in Indore. This simple, comforting meal, prepared by their mother and later their father, became a constant in their life. Even after experiencing varied breakfasts in Mumbai, the author rediscovered and adopted the ghee-fried chapati as their daily breakfast during the COVID-19 lockdown, finding solace and familiarity in this enduring culinary memory.