What do women want ?

This question has been buggin me for quite a while...
What do women want ?.. yeah i know.. it is one of the toughest queations un-answered... so much that there has been a movie made out of it...
You get to read these anecdotes about how women are so difficult to understand... adn many jokes caricatures about the statements made by them which makes no comprehensible sense to men...
so far so good... you just smile off at these forwards you get about the way of women.. but what do you do... when you are in a situation wherein you need a love doctor's help... and there could be many forwards floating around with your story in it.

what do you do ??

This is when all your pre-conceived notions.. all your theories fall flat...

Things are fine and dandy when you are looking at the situation... but it becomes topsy-turvy when you are in the situation..

lets see what this "situation" has to give me... stay tuned. .same time.. same channel... next week...

Cooking Lesseons : Chapter 2 : Finger Management

Well Im back.. and the next chapter in my cook book speaks about the rather dangerous topic of safety while cooking.

oh yes... during the chopping and all.. you gotta be careful... that you dont mistake your finger as the carrot. You never... NEVER play with knives..

Man its been only a week... and on second thoughts... I have started realizing that cooking isnt that an exciting thing...

well yeah.. you do need to cook to eat..

and yeah.. I hate chopping ONIONS...

Cooking Lesseons : Chapter 1 : Utensil Management

well well well.. so my first hand at cooking went very well... so well that I thought I may well start writing about it and hoping that someone might benefit from it and use it for their well-being..
OK. enough of "well"ing.. the first chapter in MY Book of Cooking starts with "Utensil Management". Yup you heard it right. I think even one chapter is not enough for such stuff, but we are gonna somehow squeeze it in this one.

so here goes the first chapter of my cookbook...

Yeah.. utensil management... Its a tough job.. I know.. from those small side dishes. .to those huge casseroles and pressure cookers.. You need to know em all.. and you also need to know which one to use and when..
I mean.. you wouldn't use the big pressure cooker to beat an egg... and also. you wouldn't use a soup bowl to cook dal for four ppl.. would ya? The vessel you chose to cook/serve your food should not be too big... for proper space utilization.. and not too small.. you don't want a messy kitchen table do you ?
But the problem comes in when you gotta use the same utensil more than once during your evening stint of dinner-making.
So as a thumb rule - take any stuff in a vessel which is at least four times its size for practical food-making and keeping the kitchen clean..

Thats enough for day one... me will be back with more..

Yan can cook !!!!

Me... and cooking... No way !!!

I have been one of those privileged few who always either had his family or friends cooking for him.. or I would manage by eating out at a restaurant..
But the time had come for me to venture into the kitchen and start satisfying my gastronomical needs myself. Not that my roommates wouldn't cook for me... but I was just tired of doing the washing and cleaning in lieu of not knowing how to cook...
So one day, along with another inexperienced-in-the-kitchen room-mate of mine, I decided to take things in my own hand... rather things in our own hands [sounds corny ?! you dirty mind].. and it could not be a better occasion than the Last meal of the year... yeah on 31st Dec.
It wasn't our indigenous effort all the way, as we used processed and cut vegetables.. .but such minor details can be overlooked as compared the herculean task we had planned to do that day...
So out came the the chopped cabbage and ready-to-eat chicken kebabs. the Microwave-heated kebabs served as the perfect companion to wine... [yeah that was the starters].
Thanks to the microwave, making rice was as easy as burning a CD [4x - note plz]. Just take the bowl, add rice, add water, rinse it like you-know-it-all-from-khana-khazana chef... replace the rinsed water with clean one.. and stash it in... DING !!! goes the microwave at the end.. and viola !!! Rice is ready...
Now the rookie [that's moi] got on the cutting board with a myriad of knives.. and CHOP CHOP CHOP... onions, tomato, coriander leaves.. are ready in no time... dump all this with the frying cabbage. .and yummy cabbage foogath would be ready in jiffy...
One point I would like to take credit for would be the cutting... During my school days.. I had taken the breakfast making tasks upon myself.. and not to mention I was a pretty good omelet-maker. Apart from omelettes, any activity which was a part of the omlette-making ritual... I knew it... cutting/chopping was one of it..
so there I wasn't inexperienced then eh ?
SNIFF SNIFF... oops the cabbage is about to burn... but my roommate simmers the flame just time... phew... parathas and rotis are next :)

All in all.. the home-made, self-made [well almost] dinner was really satisfying...
maybe not to my party instincts.. but definitely to my gastro-ego..

and guess what.... I already know so much stuff about cooking...