A Cooked up Story

Hello Folks!!! Last night, my mother was heating some egg roast for dinner while the rest of us set the table. The egg roast is a very simple, semi-dry side-dish, where eggs are coated in luscious thick sauce made with red tomatoes and caramelized onions. I wouldn't say this is a super quick dish, because you need to let the masala fry for a while in order to let the flavours blend with each other properly. But, with a little bit of patience, anyone can always cook up a magic potion. It's a wonder in itself that tastes equally good.  Interrupting my short happiness of watching the buttery smooth onions and tangy tomatoes swirling around the pot and bubbling into thick sauce, my garrulous little sister picked up a silly conversation. She started off by saying that she was ready to sacrifice her share of the egg roast and remain a good child who can 'sometimes' sacrifice good things. It reminded me of the story "The Sacrificial Egg" by Chinua Achebe, and all the...

Hello Folks!!! Festivities are a smorgasbord of religious traditions and fine food. From mouth-watering cuisines and delicacies from different parts of the globe to fusion dishes, sweet and savory, there is a certain charm that surrounds a festive season. Easter is one of the most fun celebrations in any child's life - with a basket full of chocolates, nests full of colourful easter eggs, super cute Easter bunnies and lots of sticky buns.  In Africa, Easter means a long weekend, which creates the perfect opportunity for a large family gathering. We would have lunch parties in our friends house, play in the swimming pool and also have 'eggs'changing.  As children, we had so much fun at the easter treasure hunt game, picking up easter eggs and presents specially kept for us at each doorstep. After the treasure hunt, we used to have the perfect get together! All families, friends and neighbours at home. Every year a different house would host the party.  There was a very bea...

Hello Folks!!! Last week was simply marvelous and I am excited to narrate it to you. Tuesday, we went out for a long drive, quite far, in the outskirts of the city. It was a much needed break from the busy schedule: vast greenery, far stretching water bodies...What a treat!!! The quiet whispers of the wind, the busy chirping of the birds, the happy grasshoppers on the dewy grass and the little fishes swimming in the lake was such a merry sight. This was like those Friday evenings when Dad would go fishing with his friends  and sometimes take me as well to enjoy the peace and serenity of nature. I always enjoy fishing -  only the catch and release. But that doesn't stop me from enjoying my favourite delicacies. Something fishy is a temptation I can never say no to. To complement the beautiful picnic, we had our lunch basket ready with some juicy apples,  tuna sandwich, cheesy macaroni, and chilled  coke 😁 Tuna sandwich was one every-day lunch time favourite of m...

 Hello Folks!!! " [ bread  crackles] Oh, symphony of crackle. Only great  bread sound  this way. I didn't have to help you! If I looked out only for myself, I would have let you drown!" This line from the movie Ratatouille never fails to make you feel hungry. In this cooked up story, I will help you to make  such  warming, cotton soft and fluffy bread, encasing a juicy sausage. The buttery, float away texture of these home-made rolls remind me of the ones that were the pride of several grey-haired ladies who baked for all the school breaks of my childhood. Neatly aproned, and hair braided in a bun, they would stand behind the tuck-shop, selling dozens of rolls, which were whisked straight from the ovens and eaten up quickly by eagerly waiting children. For me what matters is not just the smell of those golden kissed rolls, but the celebration we had every 9 am at school- to run and buy ourselves a roll before the bell rings again for the next hour. How do y...

  Hello Folks!!! Trust all of you are doing well and tried out some of my recipes (do let me know what you prepared and how you enjoyed it in the comments section… I’ll be really excited to know). It has been long since I posted my last cooked up story and I really missed you all as I was immersed in preparations for my exams which just got over today. Today, I thought of bringing a new dish to your attention that has a very funny name, yet equally tasty – Devilled eggs, also known as stuffed eggs/ Russian eggs. This is a very simple recipe and I’m sure you will definitely try it out as soon as you read it. I came across this dish when I was in my 10 th grade. We had our Home Science practical exam, an exam whose news spread like rapid fire and never failed to reach even the farthest corners of our school, yeah our school was enormous. I still remember the chaos, as soon as the dates of the exam were announced, all the teachers and students used to book the dish they wanted t...