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Terribly 'Essenced ' lunch.
I
am always at odds with my mom when it comes to 'kitchen chores'. My
culinary skills are below average and whenever I had tried to lent a
hand , the whole thing will be a catastrophe. Either it will burn or
will be semi-cooked and in the end taste will be obnoxious. When it
comes to cooking, the fact is that I am an utter fiasco and moreover
I had never taken any steps to ameliorate my culinary skills has
always been a source of wrath from mom.
Nonetheless
whenever I try to do some little bit cooking ,Mom's totalitarian
authority in our kitchen often flare up the whole situation and
eventually I will stage a walk out vowing never to return to this
place of ultimate” autocracy “ anymore. My sister terms the whole
affair as a carefully woven play by me in which I purposefully annoy
mom to the extent such that she will expel me out of kitchen in no
time (there is some truth hehe).
Mom is a
perfectionist. Each and every chopped vegetables will be as if they
were some sort of identical twins. When she says two teaspoons of
oil,it must be two teaspoons and if by any chance I add an extra
drop,my whole day will be at stake. She is truly a dedicated and
perfect chef and I must admit that she makes appetizing, yummy food
.
This
Sunday , since all three of us are at home , mom decided to prepare
vegetable fried rice instead of usual rice and curry for lunch.
Likewise ,I mentioned earlier, sensing a mayday at our kitchen , I
took refuge in front of television. From there I could see how
coherently she is putting together each and every ingredients for
the fried rice, curry and salad . All the carrots , beans,
cauliflower, onion and other vegetables are finely chopped and their
meticulous appearance often amuses me because had it been me they
will be of erratic shapes. The tantalizing aroma of spices in ghee
watered my mouth and today's lunch will be a grand one, I said to
myself. The tang of spices and smack of flavours was already
stimulating my appetite .And at last it was time for taste. We all
sat down exuberantly and were ready to taste .Much to our dismay it
tasted bitter and terrible. She had added the pineapple essence in
excess, while giving finishing touches !!!!!!
Mom's
face just turned pale and she gave us a dead look. Daddy chewed a
mouthful and abandoned the whole meal. My sister too ate a little bit
and left the table. I too thought to leave, but then I remembered
how sophisticatedly she prepared the whole meal with full
youthfulness and being a daughter and bad cook I should respect her
effort . And whats the big deal, after all it is a little bit of
essence. How could I , with limited culinary skills judge a veteran,
besides I have seen how passionately she prepared the whole meal. If
I didn't eat my plate that would be a total disgrace to her and so
for a moment I forgot our apple of discords at kitchen and decided to
finish my plate .
Everyone
left and I could see the despair in her face . Oh man, the essence
has ruined the whole thing and needless to say it tasted pretty
awful but I had made up my mind so no looking back and I ate the
whole plate with much difficulty. Watching me eating, my sister
warned me not to burn my intestine . But adoring myself as some sort
of saviour for my Mom's disgrace, I ate the whole thing. So far so
good, but after some time I could sense a feeling of uneasiness . My
stomach was burning actually . Even the air I expelled smelled
pinepaple essence .Now I was frantically drinking hot water ,
literally running pillar to post trying all remedies to keep my
stomach up and doing with little result. With great effort somehow I
managed to gain control . Even after 12 hours I could taste and smell
pine apple essence on my mouth and it was just atrocious .
PS:-
While coming to food never get emotional even for your mom, if food
is awful admit it and just leave . After all its your own stomach
that suffers and no emotion can extinguish it.
