Clumsy coz I'm fallin in love.....

The first and the most important preparation before coming to America is to have learnt cooking!!! It does not matter if you don’t know cell biology or math (see, already half American, I stopped sayin maths!!!) or Matlab, you got to, have to, certainly need to know to freakin COOK!!! It does not matter whether it is Italian, south Indian, north Indian, French, Chinese or anything else that u know.. but u just gotta know…
I did not “learn” coz a) Chennai chicks always know how to cook well; b) genetically, I must be a great cook (anyone who has had mom and dad’s cookin will vouch for this); c) whats google for?? Do a search, find the recipe, cook, eat, clean!!; d) arre, will get RA/TA and earn.. so might as well blow money on food.. e) eat complex carbs everday? Noways… will buy oats or some other healthy stuff and lose some weight!!!
Let me see how many of those still hold true!! A is partly true… b,c,d fall under the category of “arch, what the hell were u thinking?” e is “u kiddin me rite? How can u eat such bland stuff, even to lose weight?”
By the way, I had the chance to cook “vangibath” on the first day of stayin at new house… now to list what ALL were wrong with the simplest preparation of rice!! We did not have brinjals, I had no clue about the proportionality of curry powder, I always add very little salt, I kinda mixed the order in which things are to be added…. But it tasted OK!!
But can I survive on my own cooking for 2 yrs?? I doubt it… but will I improve?? Hope so!!! Else, I am following the easiest way to survive my own cookin… boil pasta and veggies, season it with oregano and salt… And, there is food… : ) tasty, healthy, non-fussy, easy to cook, eat, clean!!!
Many of you must have heard abt the accidental buzzin of the smoke alarm when we were cookin roti.. oof, man!! After a month of eatin only rice n pasta (feels like forever actually), we FINALLY super FINALLY got some atta… and I got all-hyper and prepared the dough for rotis… wanted to eat paratha really bad… but all we had for paratha was cheese!!! No no.. not happenin, tat I eat cheese paratha…. So we mixed some random veggies (all our curries have broccoli coz its always there in the fridge!!!) and voila, had a fancy curry… curry all done, we truned our attention to the dough to roll out chapathis… I still cant do that part properly, which resulted in weird shaped rotis till my roomie sugs took control… I ONLY had to put it flat on a tawa and cook it…
Easy rite??? Apparently not!!! D’oh!! The roti was giving out smoke (the brainiacs that we are, we forgot to switch on the exhaust) and after 2 min, an ear piercing-kuiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii sound started… I left the roti to cook (further till it charred) and all of us ran to the smoke detector and tried to switch if off… when tat failed, tried to reset it.. failed again (wonder how phoebe reset it in friends!!!).. finally yanked the thing off.. and put it back after 5 min… (know its not recommended, but what to do… dint want a fire engine outside our apt!!!)
Things are lookin up now.. thanks to MTR (and the fact tat they give instructions), the curry tastes better and I am on the fast-track towards better-cooking…. and lovin it!!!