Cooking up a Storm!!

Well Lockdown or otherwise I always had inclination towards mouth watering dishes be it at home or outside. Now completely cut off from the rest of the world and maintaining social distancing in the right way. I am at the mercy of my phone and the soulfood internet. Imagine my condition when my ever encompassing tongue and the taste buds are crying for attention and all I can do is look at interesting videos on cooking channels and slurp imagining to taste all the delicacies. 

Well I am trying to recreate magic in some of the dishes I have been watching these days. Some to outstanding results, some to just perfection while the rest having some disastrous results. 

Now with most of the shops closed, I am at the mercy of the available ingredients which stock up the home basics. If I want to have a dish which would catch the viewers fancy I am sorry I am incapable of doing so. Let me tell you why, neither do I stock up basic things like food colour as I never felt the necessity of using any as our everyellow turmeric or saffron did the magic in most of the dishes.

Now with the Lockdown on for over a month, my sweet tooth was terribly searching for something sweet. I resisted the urge for several days thinking of the oil, flour, sugar etc that I would be wasting in times of crisis if the experiment turned out to be a disaster.

So, finally after much apprehension, last weekend I set out on the expedition to conquer the summit. The process started with the sieving, mixing, folding everything going on well. I thought, yes, the game is mine. But wait that wasn't it, the game changer was waiting to put me to the real test. 

 

 

Believe me my cooking skills were in for a toss when I found that I had no food colour. I was literally in tears when I watched the preparation of the sweet which should have been yellow or orange turn brown as I had no colour. The taste was awesome but the texture and the look wasn't. I had to act tactful by saying that I am trying to be organic so I avoided using it. But my bleeding heart knew how much I wished I had a bit of food colour to my service and make my plate of Jalebis more plate-able. 

I am cooking so many things these days but I fear sharing it on social networking sites as I feel people will tag me as insensitive to the needs to the needy or poor. We are doing our bit we are helping the poor, neither I am posting those pictures on social media nor these pictures where I prepare delicacies. Who would like to cook up a storm? 

Love Sara