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Why all Indian men should know how to cook Abhimanyu Mishra,TNN

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prasad1

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It is that time and age when all Indian men should learn to cook.

Well, if you don't know cooking, this is a bad time for guys. While most urban men these days in India can manage something minimal at the least in the kitchen, there are good enough reasons for men to now master their culinary skills.
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Girls love it:
There is something differently attractive about men who can make a lip-smacking meal for their girls. And even others dig in for such guys. So wake up and head for the kitchen guys.
Why all Indian men should know how to cook - The Times of India

I do know basic Tam Bram cooking.
 
There is no big deal in cooking. Cooking is not rocket science or even laying a bitumen road in the hot April sun of singara Chennai. It is a comparatively simple task which anyone can master given a little time. and it is not the cook who does the cooking but the stove and the fire that does it.

a male can cook. a female can also cook. Just like a male sitches clothes just like a female. It is just the concenience and time that each one gets at home. I do cooking well.

I have posted this when my wife is busy cooking in the kitchen. LOL.
 
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My friend's hubby used to brag that he cooks better than his wife! But one should listen to his wife describe the plight of
their kitchen, after he finishes his 'delicious' cooking! She needed at least one hour to clean the mess! :ballchain:
But, I should admit that those hubbies staying in the U S of A are trained well to clean, even if the wife cooks! :peace:
 
I started to learn cooking from my mom..I used to lock kitchen as a young boy...I have prepared Halwa & Sojji..My family used to enjoy that..It was just a hobby..Later when I moved to North as a bachelor, I used to prepare Kari, Rasam, Sambhar etc...But after marriage my wife manages the cooking & I hardly get opportunities for cooking
 
Our family friend who retired as H O D from I I T, Chennai used to tell us that it is not enough to learn cooking;

it is also essential to learn to convert one item as another, by adding some ingredients! :thumb:
 
Dear Renu,

Some brahmins do NOT allow females to cook madi samaiyal.
Only males prepare because they are PURER! :decision:
 
Raji Ram said:
Dear Renu,

Some brahmins do NOT allow females to cook madi samaiyal.
Only males prepare because they are PURER! :decision:
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Dear RR ji,

Then the females should say that they only want to eat PUREST food and make the males cook daily at home!LOL

Now I know why old vesthi was used as idli cloth! Becos everything of the male is pure!LOL
 
Raji Ram said:
She must have tasted YOUR preparations!

Just kidding! ;)
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My wife likes my Tomato Rasam...When my better half prepares sweets I will be by her side to tell the right Paagu Padam! The needle size and length decides the Padam! I have never failed in that!!
 
renuka said:
Dear RR ji,

Then the females should say that they only want to eat PUREST food and make the males cook daily at home!LOL

Now I know why old vesthi was used as idli cloth! Becos everything of the male is pure!LOL
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The girl who wants to keep out of the kitchen for a week every month - during those 3 miserable days plus a garce period of 4 days - is hailed my her in laws.
I think she is the cleverest person in the world to get one week off in every monthly cycle!
And I have an uncle whose breif and dhothi remain kodi (new) until they crumble to dust... since he never washes them and they remain kodi eveni if he wears them ten million ( koti ) times! :rolleyes:
 
Or be clever to invent a new name for sweets and karams when the 'padam' is totally hard or shape is unrecognizable.

Traditional mysorepak had such a reputation, as all diwali malars carried jokes on its diamond hardness and its use a s a hammer to hit a nail or mappilai. To get rid of its inherited crown, krishna sweets of coimbatore called it 'mysorepa' after making it to melt in the mouth.

Coimbatore sisters can vouch for the softness of mysorepa from krishna and annapoorna sweets.

Raji Ram said:
Our family friend who retired as H O D from I I T, Chennai used to tell us that it is not enough to learn cooking;

it is also essential to learn to convert one item as another, by adding some ingredients! :thumb:
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Raji Ram said:
My friend's hubby used to brag that he cooks better than his wife! But one should listen to his wife describe the plight of
their kitchen, after he finishes his 'delicious' cooking! She needed at least one hour to clean the mess! :ballchain:
But, I should admit that those hubbies staying in the U S of A are trained well to clean, even if the wife cooks! :peace:
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My wife will agree with your friend.
 
Vaagmi said:
There is no big deal in cooking. Cooking is not rocket science or even laying a bitumen road in the hot April sun of singara Chennai. It is a comparatively simple task which anyone can master given a little time. and it is not the cook who does the cooking but the stove and the fire that does it.

a male can cook. a female can also cook. Just like a male sitches clothes just like a female. It is just the concenience and time that each one gets at home. I do cooking well.

I have posted this when my wife is busy cooking in the kitchen. LOL.
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I hope that was tongue-in-cheek comment.
I know many men who can not boil water. They do not know their way around Kitchen.
Then again In India, nowadays no one needs to know to cook. almost every one has a cook, caterer, or restaurant nearby.
Before I came to London my mom taught me basic Tam-Bram cooking, and a book by Meenakshi Mami. I can manage now. It was the desire to remain Vegetarian and spicy food that forced me to learn fast.
 
Dear Sarang Sir,
Your comments on 'MysorepAk' reminds me of this smiley: :brick:

My friend names it 'Mysore halwA', when it becomes soft and pieces can't be made!

BTW, I know an easy method to make a soft sweet with the same ingredients, without much ghee.
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Shall post in in 'Ideas' thread in Chit Chat forum. :)
 
what matters more than cooking is how to edit a dish by adding ingredients so that it becomes delicious.

similarly , how to recycle left over foods and make it reappearin a different avathar. many make left over rice as thatchi sadam adding other

ingredients. dry left over fried vegetables become inputs for kootu or sambar. recycling is an art by itself.also when a

dish does not taste good , how to moderate it with more ingredients such as salt, mirchi or other items to make it

edible.

when servants are used for cooking or food is outsourced, the talent to moderate it becomes very useful. Editing of

food requires a high degree of expertise. Only dedicated housewives only can do that..I know of one in this forum.lol
 
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