The skill that turns your saviour!
Anybody can be a good cook and I don't consider it a skill one is born or blessed with. Rather it is cultivated through practice and of course, passion! While it's interesting to find people who hone their cooking skills and feel proud about it, it is more interesting to come across people who confess that they simply do not know how to cook. I have come across girls and ladies who raise their eyebrows, when asked whether they cook( while their male counterparts just give a casual no). The interesting factor is that they enjoy their food and eagerly tuck in buckets of chicken lollipops or nuggets at expensive food outlets or malls.
I am, by distinguishing two sets of foodies, no means against the eating-out culture. I believe that nothing can replace a cup of coffee cherished in a comfortable corner of your favourite cafe with your best friend. But to those who proudly acknowledge their disinterest in cooking, I would like to give a piece of advice.
If you love to eat, then you should learn to cook ( atleast dishes that you like) because who knows! You might just find yourself one day alone in a room with just a cooking stove for company( and internet connection hopefully) and you can't crib.
Secondly, your cook might just stop cooking for you one day and that's not quite a good reason for you to starve.
And next thing, the person who cooks for you might fall ill and you have to take charge of the kitchen.
It is usually on these inevitable occasions that these people don their aprons and just start cooking!
All I have to say is that this skill, or whatever you might want to call it, is a necessity for mere survival. And (let me change the adage a bit), the way to anybody's heart is through their stomach. My dog loves me more than anyone else in the house because the yummiest meals come from me. So what are you waiting for?
Today evening I came across chicken pieces kept aside (I'm the only one in my house right now who eats chicken, apart from my dog).
So I didn't give it another thought.
Lovely spicy chicken curry
Six or seven pieces of chicken, two large onions and four green chillies.
The chillies with a piece of ginger are grinded with a pestle and this mixture is thrown into the pan which has oil heating up. When its rawness fades, add in the sliced onions Now stir occassionally so that you get the perfect mixture after a while.. Make sure that the onions turn light brown and there is adequate oil. Now add salt and pounded spices( that include cardamom, star anees cinnamon). Inadded red chilly powder too for that red colour and spice. Chicken pieces can now go in.. close the lid and simmer..let it cook slowly..add a cup of water and stir occassionally.
I just finished my supper so I proudly say, go ahead and cook!
I am, by distinguishing two sets of foodies, no means against the eating-out culture. I believe that nothing can replace a cup of coffee cherished in a comfortable corner of your favourite cafe with your best friend. But to those who proudly acknowledge their disinterest in cooking, I would like to give a piece of advice.
If you love to eat, then you should learn to cook ( atleast dishes that you like) because who knows! You might just find yourself one day alone in a room with just a cooking stove for company( and internet connection hopefully) and you can't crib.
Secondly, your cook might just stop cooking for you one day and that's not quite a good reason for you to starve.
And next thing, the person who cooks for you might fall ill and you have to take charge of the kitchen.
It is usually on these inevitable occasions that these people don their aprons and just start cooking!
All I have to say is that this skill, or whatever you might want to call it, is a necessity for mere survival. And (let me change the adage a bit), the way to anybody's heart is through their stomach. My dog loves me more than anyone else in the house because the yummiest meals come from me. So what are you waiting for?
Today evening I came across chicken pieces kept aside (I'm the only one in my house right now who eats chicken, apart from my dog).
So I didn't give it another thought.
Lovely spicy chicken curry
Six or seven pieces of chicken, two large onions and four green chillies.
The chillies with a piece of ginger are grinded with a pestle and this mixture is thrown into the pan which has oil heating up. When its rawness fades, add in the sliced onions Now stir occassionally so that you get the perfect mixture after a while.. Make sure that the onions turn light brown and there is adequate oil. Now add salt and pounded spices( that include cardamom, star anees cinnamon). Inadded red chilly powder too for that red colour and spice. Chicken pieces can now go in.. close the lid and simmer..let it cook slowly..add a cup of water and stir occassionally.
I just finished my supper so I proudly say, go ahead and cook!
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