Cooking: A survival skill
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Cooking is, definitely, a survival skill.
I realized it in quite recent years of my life. I have always been interested
in cooking, but I didn’t like cooking basic meals until my marriage. Before my
marriage, I would cook fancy dishes whose recipes would be taken from YouTube. I
would note down the steps in a copy and ask for my mother to arrange every ingredient
of the recipe, then upon blindly following the steps from my copy, the dish
would come out well, without any fail.
It's said that the easiest way to reach
someone’s heart is through someone’s stomach which, in simple words, means that
one must satisfy the taste bud of someone if he really wants to make him happy.
I found its relevance. My husband and I, both of us love food, thus cooking. We
keep experimenting with ingredients to come up with new dishes, every now and
then. This skill of cooking proved to be
a boon for us especially when we moved abroad. I am always attracted to Indian
Cuisine for its variety of tastes. The kind of satisfaction that I get after
having any Indian food is inexplicable. It’s always not so easy to look for Indian
dishes abroad, either they are too expensive, or they don’t give the authentic
taste that we crave, or the serving time is too much. We cook fairly well, so
we are always satisfied with whatever is cooked in our kitchen. So, when we look
for Indian dishes outside of India, we generally expect their taste to be better
than what our kitchen can produce. If those dishes don’t taste better than what
we can cook, we really get disappointed.
Cooking is not only a survival skill but also
a stress buster. The aroma of spices, generated from mixing different
ingredients in the pot, relieves all stress and makes it mouth-watering. Homemade
food is always in high demand, especially in situations where other food
options are negligible. That multiplies the joy of sharing food with others,
and it makes our day.
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Swati Sarangi
03.05.2023
P.S: These cupcakes were baked by my
husband, on my birthday. Those were too delicious.
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| Before Baking |
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| After Baked |
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