Tuesday, March 30, 2010

Cooking Aloo Matar !



No guys,this is not a recipe article where i will tell you how to cook some exceptionally delicious
Sabji of Aloo Matar. This is a summary of how i made it ! The people in my house were feeding me with home cooked food from quite a few days now ( 5 to be precise ! ) and i could feel their restlessness in the air that when i would get up and do the honors of preparing some delicious food for them and I could see the questions oozing out of their eyes (Except Jassi as he was always kind to me ! :) ) when i reached home on tuesday. Finally one of flatmates could not hold on the fire in his belly and said "Ankur aaj Aloo Matar bna ke khila yaar " , with a big smile i looked at him to remind him that unfortunately i dont know how to cook, But before he would almost breakdown , i picked up the knife and started to peel off some onions,which one of the senior members of the Flat taught me ( Yes, you are right i dint even know how to peel of Onions as well and they expected me to cook complete Sabji ! ) ,finally after narrow escapes of my fingers from the knife i peeled of some onions,which to me seemed like a won battle as i did it for the first time in my life.Unfortunately it was of no significance to others,and they were waiting like hungry monsters waiting for some thing to munch on,. Then one of the new comers in the flat(We called him Motu,and obviously he dint know it ! ) joined me in the process of cooking ( And mind you he had nearly 3-4 years experience of cooking,however he some how was enjoying the privellege of not cooking anything,and i think this is what irked my flatmates and they vent out their daily cooking frustration on me ! ) . Anyways, then he directed me to put some oil in the Frying Pan which i did very cautiously, then once the oil was hot ,he asked me put all the onions in it ,which i did very carefully .As the first onion that i had put in the oil came flying towards me, and it did shatter my courage but i did not let it deter my determintaion of cooking today and i moved ahead towards my goal of making Aloo matar. In the meanwhile while i was trying my luck at Tarrka ,Motu had kept the potatoes for boiling after peeling them of ,and he overdid it,the potatoes were nearly mashed,to which he smilingly said to himself "Arre aise hi hota hai,dont worry and gave a stupid smile to cover his mistake " . The end sabji was quite pathetic,probably we can say it was Aloo matar curry in which there was no visible Potato ,as all of them were mashed and the end taste was quite pathetic ( Mind you i had only peeled off onions and tomatoes and cooked them in oil, All the salt,spices and Aloo was added by Mr Motu ) . But he dint utter a single word in front of others that it was his cooking's result and other flatmates looked at ME with agony ,that they will have to eat it ! Whereas the Truth was I had done nothing in it apart from getting the scared looks of my friends while preparing it, And all this probably reminded me of the other example of Paying for Someone else's Food , that we all face in our daily lives when we pay for other person's mistake ...which now teaches me, that its better take control of your own life before someone else does and its better to do and apologise than do nothing and still apologise !

6 comments:

  1. wow...awesome dude....try cheese chilly next time...;)

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  2. Hi Ankur...iam waiting fr ur next post...

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  3. hehehe good one bhai...
    sale kabhi mere room pe aa main mast aloo matar bana kr khilaunga :)

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  4. Haan bhai ab Pune hi aaunga tere paas,wahaan we will cook, now i am also an expert yaar :)

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  5. Haha good one... super chef Mr.Goel!!!

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  6. @Aman:- Sirjee sach mein i have now become a good cook, yaa i know its hard to believe for a person who can't even cut an onion, But sach mein acchi cooking aa gyi hai ab mujhe :)

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