I was pretty sure of not writing a post on this blog of mine, as hostel time means your cooking is mostly limited to boiling stuff(mostly the instant noodles kind of things)... Yeah, that's pretty much it. Never the less, mankind has found tricks to boil stuff that can taste good.
This post is dedicated to one of my room-mates. Credits....later, but I need to thank him for giving me something to write on.
So here goes.
THE BUGGER had been after us about getting corn kernels, each time we went out to the city/town(or whatever you can classify Calicut as). The first time out, he forgot about it. The second time, he bought them..finally! He's got a thing for corn, specially the spiced and overpriced stuff one usually finds inside/outside/nearby food malls....
So we got corn in the room!! Yaaaay!!!! Now what?
Next was a water heater... almost all rooms have this appliance. Then came salt..another friend's room(THE BUGGER's ex-room mate's to be precise). There was a plan to bring along some 'chaat masaala', the tangy powder/ mixture made from err... salt, rock salt.. umm... pepper, powdered cumin,mint powder..err, ya, all that and goodness knows what else. But no one had 'Chaat masaala'!! So we put in 'Chicken curry masaala' instead, which we borrowed from another friend's room... Yeah, even I am wondering how the chicken curry tasted. Another room-mate of mine had been invited to the 'In-Hostel-chicken-curry-party'. I did not bother asking him how it tasted. Fine, moving on... Oh yes, we got some cubes of butter(Okay not we, just my corn-obsessed fellow room occupant.[THE BUGGER])
And yeah, we washed the boiler properly. The only thing I did was washing the lid of the boiler...That's all. After that, we did the 'thawing', as mentioned on the packet of corn kernels. I guess the lengthiest part of cooking was the THAWING!!! The bugger was mad about thawing. That was the only line in the cooking instructions that the three of us, among the four in the room ever heard... obviously the fourth one being THE BUGGER!
So, thawing was over, all the additives, condiments and whatever we had in hand, plunged into the boiler happily, did their thing for about 15 minutes, AND PRESTO!!!!!
Just apart form this weird smell that lingered around for about 5 minutes, which according to one of us(not me), was Sodium Acetate. Although I have a feeling that I am supposed to know what this thing does to the food, I have no clue, except of the fact that it is a preservative.
So, again, PRESTO!! We got stuff to eat!! We had made a pact to keep the room's door closed, but mistakenly, somehow the latch opened and we had a few peeping Toms and Jerrys' paying us visits. Never the less, whatever came out of the boiler, well, came out pretty good. Though the 'Chicken Masaala' never made the corn taste like chicken, which would have been a very.....strange thing, it definitely wasn't a bad idea, I guess.
THE BUGGER- Abhishek Jaiswal
This post is dedicated to one of my room-mates. Credits....later, but I need to thank him for giving me something to write on.
So here goes.
THE BUGGER had been after us about getting corn kernels, each time we went out to the city/town(or whatever you can classify Calicut as). The first time out, he forgot about it. The second time, he bought them..finally! He's got a thing for corn, specially the spiced and overpriced stuff one usually finds inside/outside/nearby food malls....
So we got corn in the room!! Yaaaay!!!! Now what?
Next was a water heater... almost all rooms have this appliance. Then came salt..another friend's room(THE BUGGER's ex-room mate's to be precise). There was a plan to bring along some 'chaat masaala', the tangy powder/ mixture made from err... salt, rock salt.. umm... pepper, powdered cumin,mint powder..err, ya, all that and goodness knows what else. But no one had 'Chaat masaala'!! So we put in 'Chicken curry masaala' instead, which we borrowed from another friend's room... Yeah, even I am wondering how the chicken curry tasted. Another room-mate of mine had been invited to the 'In-Hostel-chicken-curry-party'. I did not bother asking him how it tasted. Fine, moving on... Oh yes, we got some cubes of butter(Okay not we, just my corn-obsessed fellow room occupant.[THE BUGGER])
And yeah, we washed the boiler properly. The only thing I did was washing the lid of the boiler...That's all. After that, we did the 'thawing', as mentioned on the packet of corn kernels. I guess the lengthiest part of cooking was the THAWING!!! The bugger was mad about thawing. That was the only line in the cooking instructions that the three of us, among the four in the room ever heard... obviously the fourth one being THE BUGGER!
So, thawing was over, all the additives, condiments and whatever we had in hand, plunged into the boiler happily, did their thing for about 15 minutes, AND PRESTO!!!!!
Just apart form this weird smell that lingered around for about 5 minutes, which according to one of us(not me), was Sodium Acetate. Although I have a feeling that I am supposed to know what this thing does to the food, I have no clue, except of the fact that it is a preservative.
So, again, PRESTO!! We got stuff to eat!! We had made a pact to keep the room's door closed, but mistakenly, somehow the latch opened and we had a few peeping Toms and Jerrys' paying us visits. Never the less, whatever came out of the boiler, well, came out pretty good. Though the 'Chicken Masaala' never made the corn taste like chicken, which would have been a very.....strange thing, it definitely wasn't a bad idea, I guess.
THE BUGGER- Abhishek Jaiswal
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