Cooking ain't easy
As a male kid growing up in India, I was never given a lesson on how to cook. But after I started staying out, away from my family I began experimenting. Maggi, Tea, Coffee, boiled eggs etc. I soon mastered the most basic stuff. My cooking skills stayed at that level for several years to come coz that was all I needed at times of need. But lately I have started experimenting again. Not coz I need to, but coz its making me happy. In my whole life I never thought that I would have any passion for cooking and here I am.
I don't have a lot of space or resources in my tiny flat's kitchen. Primarily coz as I use it as a library, kinda. It houses all my books, notes, rough books, journals, dictionaries etc that I bought for my medical curriculum since I got here. Further I have never made any active efforts into learning how to cook. Just few months back I started taking interest in some simple exotic dishes. Cuz let me tell you, cooking Indian food requires a certain level of expertise, so I skipped it and started with very basic French toast and pasta.
When I first thought of making some toasts with eggs and sliced bread, it filled me up with lots of zeal, something that I had never experienced before. I got all the ingredients and used up my free time to make some. Some resourcefulness and one damaged egg on the floor of the kitchen later I had a plate full of egg toasts that tasted yummy and filled me up with such a sense of achievement, I texted a pic of it to every friend and family I knew. It was a night I will remember. The next time I tried the recipe again, I went further with some ideas and used a few more ingredients as directed by some chef on YouTube. And it turned out to be a disaster!!! Too much of butter and too heavy to my stomach. It goes without saying I still ate it, and it discourage me a bit. Since then I didn't try anything new except yesterday.
Last week I was at a mart and saw this nice pasta sauce on a shelf and it brought back the old passion I had about making pasta myself. So I brought it home with me and on Saturday night I motivated myself upto making it. This time I simply followed the steps on the package, mixed it with my creativity and it resulted into this delicious bowl of pasta. Oh!! It was such a delight. Except the fact that the pasta could have boiled a little more. Twice more actually. I tried it again on the Sunday morning and this time it was absolutely perfect. I almost cried. :p
Anyways the point is, my life is lately going into directions I never thought it would. Cooking, College and Friends included. But I'm happy that I have a new passion and millions of lessons and adventures to come with it. Embracing it and moving forward, that's all for this time, will tell u more soon...
I don't have a lot of space or resources in my tiny flat's kitchen. Primarily coz as I use it as a library, kinda. It houses all my books, notes, rough books, journals, dictionaries etc that I bought for my medical curriculum since I got here. Further I have never made any active efforts into learning how to cook. Just few months back I started taking interest in some simple exotic dishes. Cuz let me tell you, cooking Indian food requires a certain level of expertise, so I skipped it and started with very basic French toast and pasta.
When I first thought of making some toasts with eggs and sliced bread, it filled me up with lots of zeal, something that I had never experienced before. I got all the ingredients and used up my free time to make some. Some resourcefulness and one damaged egg on the floor of the kitchen later I had a plate full of egg toasts that tasted yummy and filled me up with such a sense of achievement, I texted a pic of it to every friend and family I knew. It was a night I will remember. The next time I tried the recipe again, I went further with some ideas and used a few more ingredients as directed by some chef on YouTube. And it turned out to be a disaster!!! Too much of butter and too heavy to my stomach. It goes without saying I still ate it, and it discourage me a bit. Since then I didn't try anything new except yesterday.
Last week I was at a mart and saw this nice pasta sauce on a shelf and it brought back the old passion I had about making pasta myself. So I brought it home with me and on Saturday night I motivated myself upto making it. This time I simply followed the steps on the package, mixed it with my creativity and it resulted into this delicious bowl of pasta. Oh!! It was such a delight. Except the fact that the pasta could have boiled a little more. Twice more actually. I tried it again on the Sunday morning and this time it was absolutely perfect. I almost cried. :p
Anyways the point is, my life is lately going into directions I never thought it would. Cooking, College and Friends included. But I'm happy that I have a new passion and millions of lessons and adventures to come with it. Embracing it and moving forward, that's all for this time, will tell u more soon...
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