Steaming... ? || !

BTW... 'parallell lines' in the title means 'OR' operation...

My culinary skills are on the uphill ride ... Wow..! Never knew cooking could be so interesting and confusing. List of the entries in Darshan's cuisine are increasing every week. At this point of time, I can cook (and eat ...!) confidently 10 dishes [ over a period of 1 week... not in single shot ;-) ]. 'till last week, there was some or the other re-work to bring whatever was cooked, back to form... like... adding more water, cooking some more vegetables... But now... ha ha ... ho ha.. ha.. ha ... great! [ You can imagine me with a club on my shoulder, standing with one of my foot on a clobbered demon... :-\ ]

And for all the veterans reading this out... Hats off... for your perseverence... :-)

Some of enlightments over these weeks -

• Prestige (cooker) is most important tool for my experiments...
• Cooking items in microwave is lot easier and less work. This is derived from the fact that you dont see vessels' scorched when in microwave!
• Non-stick vessels are the best inventions ever made on earth.
• Amount of oil used for cooking is inversely proportional to the darkness of the scorch in the vessel. (Experts... do comment.)
• Amount of oil used for cooking is directly proportional to the amount of soap/effort used to clean the vessel. (Ditto... comment required)

I guess I can assure my mom... .... ...... Mom, if you are listening (reading ???!!!), I can ease you by a day or 2 in a week from kitchen... lemme know! And Dad.. no need to worry for what you might have to eat then...(he he ... )

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I and my RooPa go to shopping for grocery once a week. Hmmm... honestly, it is both boring and fun... Well... if you can call "Microsoft Works" as an oxymoron, what do you call "Shopping Grocery" as...??? Huffff... ...

Anyways... every grocery mall here resembles our METRO... sizes vary... smaller than Metro and bigger than Metro... But the logic behind their working is the same. Trolley, Basket, multiple rows, and multiple counters at the end to bill.

We check for vegetables - Aloo, Pyas are the staple ones. Over them is capsicum, cauli-flower, tomato, carrot, cabbage, spinach (Hmmm... sopsige ?? I forgot what it is called in kannada... let you know later) pack of cut mixed vegetables and pack of cut Bhendi. To get chillies, we need to go to a particular store called the Indian store (Again, I dont recall the actual full name). 4 ltrs of milk, 2 packs of curd and before forgetting, a pack of apples. (On an average of 2 apples per day, I have eaten a lot of apples here.... )

Rice of 10 pounds, Dal of 1 kg... once in a month.

This is basic food ... What about the junks and snacks ... OK.... 1 bottle of Coke - 2 ltr [ huh.... it is not beer ?? , not yet ;-) ], a large can of Orange Tropicana with lot of pulp, 2 bags of chips, 2 packets of coffee biscuits ... and somethings here and there.

With this we return home, with 2-4 really large bags...! Wah Wah! what a life...!

My heart is filled with honest appreciation for my beloved ones, .... for doing this from past 30+ years ....

So much for now... Thanks for the equations of the universe for whatever has happenned ...

Adios for now... some more soon...

As usual... lemme know your thoughts...

yours

Darshan.

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