This lovely princess from far away land who never had even come close to boil water 🙂 will earn her degree in cooking soon 🙂 (self-certified), scores could be calculated by all the zig-zag brown colored scars on her delicate fingers and arms rendered by the kunning knife and sizzling hot mustard oil 😛 …
A typical day or rather night in the kitchen – coincidentally always clashes with That’s so Raven, telecast on Disney channel… with one eye on how Raven is handling her brother , the other on the gas stove … fingers busy with knife and onions … Raven running up and down the stairs 😀 … dancing and jumping … when suddenly 😐 …
“ Raj kitni whistles gayi …“ {Raj.. how many whistles}
“huh… was that our cooker!!!” … 😛
frantically trying hard to recall all the hishhhh hishhh sounds that were noted down, by my subconscious … pleading God for the safety of the Daal inside the cooker …
“huh… was that our cooker!!!” … 😛
frantically trying hard to recall all the hishhhh hishhh sounds that were noted down, by my subconscious … pleading God for the safety of the Daal inside the cooker …
When it comes to making curry, I am an egg curry expert 😀 … because that is the only one I could prepare without much disaster and injuries 😛 … by the time I pour oil in the kadhai …the TV would start singing ’Best of both worlds ‘ (Hannah Montana) … and myself would rush out with piyaaz aallu tomato or whatever to catch a glimpse of Miley and Selena fighting over the show… 😀
“Rajjjj oil se dhuaa nikal raha hai ” …my wallmate would scream …
with the same speed I would rush back … only to find a dense fog over the kadhai … straight out of Alladin when Genie is preparing for its arrival … I would lower the flame … hold the kadhai …‘Ouch!!!!’ … get a cloth and hold it again… would put it under the fan and blow some air to cool it … both my wallmates would hold their head … shaking with disgust … 😛
with the same speed I would rush back … only to find a dense fog over the kadhai … straight out of Alladin when Genie is preparing for its arrival … I would lower the flame … hold the kadhai …‘Ouch!!!!’ … get a cloth and hold it again… would put it under the fan and blow some air to cool it … both my wallmates would hold their head … shaking with disgust … 😛
When the oil has cooled enough I would put it back on the stove and add some mustard seeds and zeera… while I prepare to add onions… ‘Phatak’ one seed would land on my chin… and then two on my arms … playing throw’seed’ball with me … 😐
‘Who told you to stand so near the stove’ … someone would shout from behind… 😛
After adding onion, Haldi and salt … and sneaking and peeking at Miley and the Zombie Slayer actor… would realize that sugar could not be seen in the proximal distance … by the time I would come back the mixture would have mutated into a strange substance of dark brown and black 😛 … with doubts whether it is still fit for human consumption 😛 … I would again pray hard for the safety of the onions in the kadhai which could now nowhere be seen… finally after adding water and eggs my curry would be ready … ever so delici… okk well not so delicious and presentable… but edible 😛
We usually prepare rice at the end… by that time my roomie would have arrived and freshened up … its always me who would put the cooker on stove and she who would put it down… myself lost in the world of Disney and Lizzie(Hillary Duff)… how can I miss Lizzie showing one hand gymnastic… {although that has been shown for million times and will be shown for another zillion seasons but then … who cares 😛 } … my mind would be numb to perceive the difference between the whistles of two cookers … one ours and the other, of our wallmates … hish hishingggg with all the pressure build up inside them… often we would confuse and land up with half cooked rice…
With all the … ahem ahem … ‘dedicated’ ‘devoted’ ‘enthusiastic’ efforts, Princess’s Dinner would be ready … background echoing in Miley’s voice ‘Don’t let anyone tell you that you are not strong enough ‘ (another repeat telecast :P) …
@Anishthomas
@Kabya
thanks a lot 😀
//need to go and check my dal….// lolzzzz 😀
*nods* this is what that happens….but tell me onething…how to manage to express it soo vividly and wonderfully.????.
btw..i should stop here…need to go and check my dal….
peace.
hehe , i have a few cooking experiances(disasters) durying my school days.Since i left home for studiesjob , i never attempted it 🙁 …nyways that was a fun read 😀
@Swaram
Thanks a lot 😀
Ha ha ha gud one 😛 Well-written kitchen adventures 😉
not so delicious and presentable… but edible 😛 Gud one 😀
@hary
hehe so im not the only… Breaking eggs!! Man!
Thanks a lot.
@Antarman
hehehe good to know that im nt the only… Happy burned cooking.
Thanks a lot.
@SG
that should certainly be introduced in india.. Enough of burned eggs.
Thanks a lot.