Now that Red Curry Paste is easily available in the supermarkets, I tried making the red curry for myself. The other thing you need is coconut milk- thick and thin. And vegetables, of your choice- I used Red Capsicum, Cabbage, Beans, Carrots and Onion. And a bit of chopped ginger to add zing. You could also add leaves of Lemon or fresh lemongrass if available. I did not add fish sauce, so this is a vegetarian dish, totally.
Note I said cooking, not cleaning up.. that is not as much fun. But cooking gives you scope to experiment, and be creative. Of course, being spoilt by having Mom and Maids do most cooking, I never properly learnt it until I went to live abroad. Learnt by watching other Indian students and hearing from people- those were pre-Youtube days.
Now I can fend for myself. Had learnt buying vegetables from my trips with Dad to the Andhra markets in childhood. So I can get veggies, can cook a decent rice, dal and chicken/veg meal. Also, eggs of two or three kinds. Dosa if I have the batter. Poha, and a couple of things more.
In short, I can survive. With Youtube, it should be far simpler.
Most of us would have learnt to cook by now, if not learnt how home-cooked food tastes. Thanks to the virus going around the world. Here are a few good eats, made right at home, not necessarily by me. Pics are always better than words, esp. when related to food. Drinks have been kept out, so imagine those..
Well, bachelors are a much-maligned lot, and I am not trying to defend them-after all, I was a bachelor once. Let's just say this is a more analytical piece about the behaviour of bachelors, than most.
Bachelors have no care in the world. School, homework and stuff like that does not bother them. Cooking used to bother them, but with Swiggys and Zomatoes of the world becoming the in-thing, that is a thing of the past. Most things that would keep a housewife tense, like cleaning the house, or washing clothes, bachelors have made their peace with. So the chances of anything upsetting their peaceful life are slim. With one exception. The choice of fruits.
A Guava you can cut and eat. A Banana simply needs peeling. So it's an Ok fruit, though the peeling is a bit of effort. An apple may be eaten by biting into it just as Adam and Eve did ages ago, without major consequences. An Orange also requires peeling, but the Nagpur variety is easy, like 2-minute noodles. It is with the pomegranate that problems arise. Bachelors usually are not used to the intricate complexities that removing close layers of skin that pomegranates present them with. A Papaya, they may be able to deal with, though there is some de-seeding required. It's a lot easier. Or even a cantaloupe - what we call Musk Melon.
The difficulty levels with a Pomegranate are of a 10x magnitude, from a bachelor's viewpoint. His simple soul does not understand, therefore he takes sanyaas- from eating pomegranates, I mean. Hope you understand, and empathise.
