Image taken from : http://www.farrisliterary.com/Cookbook_CoverII.jpgRecipe books! Whenever I see one, I groan.
Believe me, I hate cooking, be it boiling water or preparing a full course meal.
Many of them say that recipe books are the best thing that couldn't happened to people like me.. but then, i find them so wrong.. The problem is not that I cant cook, but just that I'm too lazy
to be stuck in the kitchen cooking up delicacies to reach people's hearts through their stomachs! ;-)
And talk about recipe books..
Exact measures never ever seem to work! oh come on... moms never go by them and yet how great their preparations turn out to be..
Just incomparable! And what's amazing is how they always know how much of sugar to add to the jamun, "a little more than 2 cups.."
"Don't worry! once the dish gets boiled, the quantity will reduce by itself.."
Or how just another pinch of salt would make the most delicious of pulaos..
or even how half a second extra boiling can make the rice semi solid..
I've never seen mom follow the instructions in any cookbook... the '2 teaspoons of butter' always becomes 'half of this little cup.. 2 spoons will be too less', all this while I just look on in wonder!!!
Hmmm..!! guess the only way I can reach that state of 'Perfection' is by spending hours and hours in the kitchen, burning my fingers and a few err.. dishes too! ;-)
Well.. That's my outlook on cooking and recipe books.. Anyways, On another note.. here's wishing all of you a great year 2009.. May this be a fulfilling year for you and may all your dreams come true.. :-)
