Are you a new Cook?

The only thing I could do in the kitchen was to search for snacks in containers and boxes for munching. I did not enjoy cooking that much. It was never in my area of interest. Only once or twice in a year, it would happen when I would try to cook something, a simple praise hunting strategy you know, you cook food and parents would behave as if they are eating some choicest food in a good starred hotel. This would give you a good boost for a few days and that is all. But then time comes, when you have to keep your leisure at a side and become responsible enough to cook food not only for yourself but for your entire family. 

When you enter a new family, you design a new life for yourself and for others. You would want to meet all the expectations. You would like to go to any length to keep everyone happy. Cooking food and to satisfy everyone's taste buds are basic and essential part of all this. 

Straight, cooking Indian food is difficult. Culinary skills to cook food require Balance and Patience. You have to understand the importance of Balance of Spices. Learning balance of spices, might snatch the balance out of your life. In my case, I would dream of cooking food, spend hours thinking of cooking food, that much it had affected me.

But when you really put your mind to it and cook daily, you will start observing the minute essentialities of this art. Like, whatever you cook, you will understand that Tomato is the king. When you add the tomatoes to the hot pan, immediately they release juice which then mixes with other ingredients and accentuate the delicacy.  Another very basic addition while cooking for bringing balance to the dish is adding a teaspoon of Sugar. Adding Sugar in the end will balance the entire taste of food by helping the main ingredient to ADSORB (and not absorb) spices. BUT the primary key to cook a delicacy is to cook it on a simmer flame. Yes, that is actually the vital lesson to learn, to keep the food to cook on a very low flame. When you do this, you understand that this culminating part of cooking on a simmer flame requires a pinch of Patience. And that makes it perfect (mine of course is next to perfect).

If you are a new Cook, focus on Balance and Patience. Do not cook in a hurry. Or else you might end up becoming a reason of dismal looks.