I can cook!

I remember a TV program called 'Yan can cook' that used to play around 15 years ago. I don't remember many details but I recall being fascinated by the huge knives the chef used for cutting lots of vegetables and meat extremely fast while chattering away. Interesting chap. May look for those videos on youtube later tonight.

Today's menu: Carrot sambhar and rice with pickle (not in picture). Cook rice in a pressure cooker and set aside. Boil toor dal. Chop one carrot, onion and tomato and fry in some oil. Add some chilli powder and salt. Some of that miraculous turmeric powder to this would be good. Maybe I should go in search of this someday. Once this is cooked, mix the dal in. Mix with rice. Ready to eat!



Vegetarians depend entirely on dal (lentils) as a source of protein. I don't take dal everyday because I find it too tiresome to watch the dal boil. It takes forever. Ideally, dal should be put into a pressure cooker to save on time and energy, but I have only a small one which means that I cannot put rice and dal together in it. Moreover, they have different cooking times.
To compensate, I snack on nuts.

Why am I a vegetarian? I think it is the most efficient kind of food. I see no point in force-feeding some animal, waiting for it to eat and digest that food and get fat and then kill it to eat it, when I could get all my food directly from plants. Just get closer to the source of nutrition rather than wait for it to go through one more wasteful cycle. Just my opinion. I do not intend to preach. But I do not buy the ideas of it being related to my religion or my love/disgust for animals etc either.

I never thought that it is strange to be eating with my hands till I met people who had never even contemplated eating that way. "What do you do when the food is hot?"
Well, what do you do about that!! You get to know before you burn your tongue !