{"id":238,"date":"2006-03-17T09:06:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-17T09:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2006\/03\/cooking-misdemeanors.html"},"modified":"2006-03-17T09:06:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-17T09:06:00","slug":"cooking-misdemeanors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/2006\/03\/cooking-misdemeanors.html","title":{"rendered":"Cooking (mis)demeanors"},"content":{"rendered":"

Cooking is not in my blood. I mean, I cook decently enough, but if Sanjeev Kapoor ever looked for an assistant, I don’t think he’d pick me. Philosophically speaking, what’s one to do ? You gotta eat. And you can’t eat philosophically. Unless it’s like eating your own words (which isn’t much fun). And while I’m all for restaurant food once in a while, one and one’s tummy often yearns for simple, ghar-ka-khaana<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Simple is as simple does. So, I actually surf the net for microwave recipes. I love microwave popcorn. I buy ghee<\/em> – I don’t make my own from unsalted butter. I also buy yoghurt, I don’t make it. I use precut\/frozen veggies. I use bottled ginger\/garlic paste. I make gulab-jamun from pancake mix, not paneer. I make tamrind chutney from a Mexican tamarind-ish drink. I use dessicated coconut in recipes which call for fresh. I freeze food, after my weekend cook-a-thons. And now, we\u2019ve succumbed to the lure of entertainment, and finally gotten a TV for the kitchen, because I was tired of missing “The Apprentice”, while I put tadka<\/em> in the dal<\/em>.<\/p>\n

However, my entire extended family, seems to think that women have a special affinity for cooking. It is a much debated question, as to why on setting foot in a home (either in India or the US) I do not instantly head for my natural environment, the kitchen, but am content to loll on the sofa watching TV or reading a book ? People seem aghast at my non-interest in learning new dishes and honing non-existent culinary skills. You don’t know how to make ghee ? Hai-hai, this girl will surely go to hell. You buy curd ? Horrors ! You feed pati-parmeshwar frozen vegetables ?<\/em> I hold my tongue and do not tell them that pati-parmeshwar often cooks (well), and feeds me (delicately marinated legs of chicken). THAT would be blasphemy.<\/p>\n

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Cooking is not in my blood. I mean, I cook decently enough, but if Sanjeev Kapoor ever looked for an assistant, I don’t think he’d pick me. Philosophically speaking, what’s one to do ? You gotta eat. And you can’t eat philosophically. Unless it’s like eating your own words (which isn’t much fun). And while […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"twitter_17000648_17000648":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_uag_custom_page_level_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3,30],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-food"],"aioseo_notices":[],"uagb_featured_image_src":{"full":false,"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"post-thumbnail":false,"sow-carousel-default":false},"uagb_author_info":{"display_name":"amodini","author_link":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/author\/admin"},"uagb_comment_info":2,"uagb_excerpt":"Cooking is not in my blood. I mean, I cook decently enough, but if Sanjeev Kapoor ever looked for an assistant, I don’t think he’d pick me. Philosophically speaking, what’s one to do ? You gotta eat. And you can’t eat philosophically. Unless it’s like eating your own words (which isn’t much fun). And while…","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.fridaynirvana.com\/fiction\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}