Ratatouille, an awesome animated movie philosophizes "Anyone can cook!". In it, there is this rat which stops stealing food like the other rats and starts Cooking ...and in due course excels in it...! Well..true..Anyone can indeed cook...but...can anyone cook anything !?
9:00PM (2 ppl Friday Night, hungry to the core)
The story begins with me attempting to make not a delicacy like Ratatouille but a simple "Dosa". Now, there could be 10 steps in which you can make a dosa. But, you can knock off the first 5 if you buy a pack of ready-made "Instant Dosa Mix". Now all you need to do is follow the instructions at the back of the pack. The instructions tell you to just add water OR...wait for it...water AND curd to prepare the batter. The first one is quite safe which I tried before successfully. Now they dont tell you the difference in the methods. So I went for the 2nd alternative.
God knows whats the exact chemistry between curd and the dosa mix is, but I can tell you one thing ... its not chef friendly. When you use a non-stick frying pan...all you expect out of it is that it doesnt start sticking around. But in this story, the batter and the "non-stick" frying pan did just that. They "stuck" to their task. The curd being the culprit. No matter from what angle you prod the-dosa-in-making on the pan, it refuses to budge.
I even try to politely grease it (with oil) and nudge it...but aaaahan....Dosas, they say come in different sizes. But the one I ended up making came in the most singular dimensions in the entire planet. May be they make Dosas like this on Pluto. You can convince someone from the Xulu jungle tribe who survives on eating leaves all his life that what I made can be called Dosa. But you simply cant convince yourself.
So, after 15 iterations, I took the best decision for the day... Dosa for dinner.. RULED OUT !
PS: Ratatouille is usually served as a side dish, but also may be served as a meal on its own (accompanied by rice). Tomatoes are a key ingredient, with garlic, onions, zucchini (courgettes), aubergine eggplant, bell peppers (poivron), some herbs, such as herbes de Provence. There is much debate on how to make a traditional ratatouille. One method is to simply saute all of the vegetables together.
PS2: Eggplant or Aubergine is same as Brinjal
PS3: FYKI ...firstly, there is no Xulu jungle tribe...and secondly even if they exist you cant simply CANT break ice with them by starting a conversation about Dosas
PS4: 10:15PM- My roomie (the silent partner in the whole charade) and myself rushed to the nearest dhaba (in-time) to catch some rotis and vegetable to salvage the day !!
9:00PM (2 ppl Friday Night, hungry to the core)
The story begins with me attempting to make not a delicacy like Ratatouille but a simple "Dosa". Now, there could be 10 steps in which you can make a dosa. But, you can knock off the first 5 if you buy a pack of ready-made "Instant Dosa Mix". Now all you need to do is follow the instructions at the back of the pack. The instructions tell you to just add water OR...wait for it...water AND curd to prepare the batter. The first one is quite safe which I tried before successfully. Now they dont tell you the difference in the methods. So I went for the 2nd alternative.
God knows whats the exact chemistry between curd and the dosa mix is, but I can tell you one thing ... its not chef friendly. When you use a non-stick frying pan...all you expect out of it is that it doesnt start sticking around. But in this story, the batter and the "non-stick" frying pan did just that. They "stuck" to their task. The curd being the culprit. No matter from what angle you prod the-dosa-in-making on the pan, it refuses to budge.
I even try to politely grease it (with oil) and nudge it...but aaaahan....Dosas, they say come in different sizes. But the one I ended up making came in the most singular dimensions in the entire planet. May be they make Dosas like this on Pluto. You can convince someone from the Xulu jungle tribe who survives on eating leaves all his life that what I made can be called Dosa. But you simply cant convince yourself.
So, after 15 iterations, I took the best decision for the day... Dosa for dinner.. RULED OUT !
PS: Ratatouille is usually served as a side dish, but also may be served as a meal on its own (accompanied by rice). Tomatoes are a key ingredient, with garlic, onions, zucchini (courgettes), aubergine eggplant, bell peppers (poivron), some herbs, such as herbes de Provence. There is much debate on how to make a traditional ratatouille. One method is to simply saute all of the vegetables together.
PS2: Eggplant or Aubergine is same as Brinjal
PS3: FYKI ...firstly, there is no Xulu jungle tribe...and secondly even if they exist you cant simply CANT break ice with them by starting a conversation about Dosas
PS4: 10:15PM- My roomie (the silent partner in the whole charade) and myself rushed to the nearest dhaba (in-time) to catch some rotis and vegetable to salvage the day !!
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