Cooking

Cooking: I love cooking right from my childhood. I always get fascinated to see how the panipoori vendors and churumoori vendors cut the onions so fast :). I used to always try different stuff at home (of course when mom is not around the kitchen ;).

I was studying 6th standard then. One day I was alone in home as parents were out of station. I called all my tution friends and started making chapathi and aloo saagu. after 1 hour of effort, the first chapathi came out of pan :) Finally, after 2 hours we made lots of chapathi and every one sat for having dinner. Unfortunately no one could eat more than one chapathi. Can you guess why? .... I forgot to add salt to the wheat flour :P. And while making saagu instead of using one flour I used another one. It was a big disaster. still it was so much fun:). Choorumoori, masala egg and masala Tomato rings used to be my cooking stuff at that time.

This is a situation in my Intermediate (11th and 12th). I was studying in a boarding college and it is a general schedule that students will be provided with snacks every evening at 4:00 PM. However one fine day something happened and we did not get the snacks. All of us in the room are very hungry. There are no snacks in the room. It was 6:00 PM and it is still one and half hour for the dinner time. Luckily we found some onions, which we brought the previous weekend. We started cutting the onions and were thinking of what to do next. We then started searching for food items in the room. One of us took out Mango pickle box and we added it to the onions. One other took out bournavita and we added it to the mix of onions and Mango pickle. One of our friends from other room was passing by and he had two boiled eggs in his hand. We took one from him, smashed it and added to the mix. Finally something was ready and every one took part of it and started tasting it with so much doubt that whether we will be able to swallow or not. To our surprise it tasted very good. And every one started taking more and completed it in minutes. Once we completed it we thought for a while and then named the item as "Ulli-peach-Poch" Dont ask me what does that mean, but Ulli means shortcut name of Onion. The other part of the name is some mix and match. I hope all of my then roomies still remember this :)

During my first month of stay in US, I never cooked any food. Thanks a lot to my then roomies. I'm sure they would had hated me to the core for that :). However after the first month I shifted to another room and started to browse different cooking sites, used to call MOM and sis every now and then in between of some dish and finally I learnt professional cooking. I'm now a specialist (atleast in my circle) in Hyderabadi Chicken Biryani (Thanks to VahreVah.com for the receipe). Now sometimes I seriously think about going out and learn how to become a chef and then be a chef in some big restaurant. I also feel sometimes to open a Hyderabadi Biryani stall in the place I live :). It is so surprising to see myself as a good cook now and I always believed that my passion for cooking had brought me to this stage :)

Frnds, if you wanna try cooking and have any questions/doubts get in touch with me and I will do my best to find a good solution :)

To all the frnds who are still cooking .......
Enjoy your cooking