BIKASH
CHOUDHURY
I treat myself to a delicious ‘Kichidi’ (a favorite dish
of our new Prime Minister) and some deep fried vegetables dipped in tomato
sauce yesterday night as my wife left for her parent’s home in the morning to
celebrate Odia festival Rajo with her gang of sisters & a brother. It was a
good riddance temporarily as you are now emperor of your 2 BHK home, watch your
favorite news channel, listen to soul stirring music of your choice and smoke
to your heart content in a air-conditioned comfort; that’s a dream come true
for a 40+ man for a while. Now let me tell you also my battle to prepare the
dinner all alone as I am stepping into the kitchen after almost a year;
completely forgotten how much rice and lentil for one adult to prepare Kichdi
and did not wish to trouble my sweet heart at her home on such a trivial issue.
Therefore, looked at my stomach and the Pressure cooker in front and chose to
remove four palms full of rice and two of urad dal in the container to wash and
keep aside. Got a few pieces of Potala and cut it to small pieces, one potato,
one onion and one tomato. Confidently put the pressure cooker on the gas stove
and randomly added three spoon full of vegetable oil and crackled some zeera
then added onions and other vegetables cooked it for some time and then added
turmeric and chilly powder and at the end downloaded the washed rice and dal
mixed it well and fried for some time then added three glasses of vegetable
stock and closed the lid for ten minutes and after three whistles took out the
pressure cooker for cooling. After a smoke break opened the pressure cooker and
to my surprise found a very good looking orange color-mixture of yellow and red
Kichidi ready and the taste was fabulous after adding three spoon full of Desi
Ghee; my wife would not have prepared such a tasty Kichdi in last 15 yrs.
Similarly dip fried cut vegetables in a pan and added to a saucer full of hot
tomato sauce and took the dinner in a calm setting in the air-conditioned bed room
in between a few smokes while listening to a popular score in the lap top.
Sleep was also perfect commensurate to the taste of dinner.
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