The joy of sharing

This afternoon I had an amazing time cooking with friends. We found some free time.

I won't go into the details of the meal, but I learnt a few more tricks from my fellow experimentalists. It was a nice time and I will remember it. But I realized that the joy of cooking together and eating together is always shared, like the meal.

Today's meal:

What do I call it? It is boiled channa, with potatoes, tomatoes and onions, a sprinkling of chilli powder and salt, garnished with sliced cucumber.

Salad? sundal? Something.

I wonder, how it is that I manage to like everything that I cook. Is it that I cook so well or that I manage to convince myself that the food that I have cooked will be good because of the effort that went into it.

Lisa asked me this question today - does your food always turn out ok. I said, maybe my taste buds are actually dead and my brain is actually just convincing me that I am eating delicious food. We will never know folks.

The weather is getting a bit cold and I think I will need more than a sweater at night. I wonder if I will be able to continue eating the same stuff as I do now even in winter. If nothing else, the exhaust system (that consists of leaving the door open when I am cooking) is going to stop working. I may have to give up frying chillies and things like that.

Today's tip of the day: try my tips.

Today's other tip of the day: The more colourful your food is, the more its nutrition value will be. This applies only to freshly cooked food which does not consist of artificial colouring of course.