Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Cook, cooker and pressure

It was lunch time and I had just had a cup of coffee. My stomach was howling with hunger. I decided to prepare Idli (rice cake steamed in a pressure cooker) and switched on the gas stove.
Same story. The phone went alive. This time it was our correspondent from Abu Dhabi. This Lankan colleague is also a great friend. In our chat menu were life in Lanka, India and sweet gossip.
I was telling her how to prepare “lassi” (hey, all you do is mix sugar with curd and stir it...vallah, lassi is ready. How simple!). It was then that I smelt something fishy. Something was burning. I was standing at the balcony this time and cautioned my neighbour “Check your stove, something is burning,” and continued the conversation.
Boomm...After five minutes, I noticed smoke in my kitchen.
Instead of steam hot idli, I had steam hot tension for lunch.
The vessel had to be thrown out. The pressure cooker is not working.
Well, I am busy now, catch you later. I have to try a new dish.

39 comments:

  1. Shoot! How can one go wrong with Idlis ya!

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  2. But do eat something or else you will eat people's head! :D

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  3. lol @ rice cake steamed in a pressure cooker :D

    And u r as bad as us ladies as far as talking on phone is concerned :D

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  4. Hahaha! Where do you catch the apt pictures and cartoons, Ramesh? Nice.

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  5. Boss..
    the Sri Lankan Army - sorry - Gal..
    nice!!

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  6. oops, i had once kept the cooker with whistle on while preparing idlis!!!

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  7. Idli and sambar would be yummy:) I think that's all I want for lunch!!

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  8. hehehe Well, next time your wife burns rice on stove, you would be more sympathetic :)

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  9. heights!!! u screwed up idlis among all things???

    well, thank god nobody got hurt by the cooker burst..

    take care of it. Im very sure ur wife wud have given u a dose ;)

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  10. Ramesh, I did that once and I am not allowed in the kitchen anymore. Is not that great?

    BTW, Idli is not rice cake. In North India, we use the term Rice Cake for sweet that is made of rice, ghee and almond. It is kind of sticky to hold.

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  11. LOL. I needed the smile today. Thanks. This happens to me with rice sometimes. And its such a pain to clean up...What is the next disaster you are planning?

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  12. The cooker exploded??!! Scary!! I am glad at least you were safe!!!

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  13. How can you? We, readers, were able to find out it was your dish that was burning! And you took such a long time to figure it out. tsk tsk tsk

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  14. Your post has a good message. Focus on the thing at hand. Mutli tasking though is the mantra today it some times lands us in soups not idlis:)

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  15. Preparing idlis went wrong?? How on earth!! Poor thing

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  16. sorry
    but enjoyed it reading

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  17. Oh poor me its me who busted his idlis.
    And poor Ramesh he has to go for a new idli sattee - this time of recession he he he -
    Shami another chatter box like Rami

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  18. Doesn't the pressure cooker 'cooo' when it's ready and done?

    I know little about cooking but there must be devices that tell you food is cooked! :D

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  19. Thanks for the reply. Following you

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  20. Oh I will b back soon ;) ...
    Just too much on my plate at the moment!!
    Take care! :)

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  21. Maybe there was something bad for you in it and the Universe saved you. That's what I think! :)

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  22. Oh.. you deserved it!

    Well, I too have this habbit of doing someuseful(?)work in between, for, e.g. whilst boiling milk... washing the utensils or finishing some other job.. There are occasions when the milk kept on stove would celbrate "pongalo pongal"!

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  23. ohh am sorry to hear this ramesh. just to make up for you i had idli vada for lunch.and i loved the cartoon here.

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  24. lol...be careful the next time...n i hope u end up cooking actaully what u want to..;)

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  25. lol lol lol

    i read idli, and was like yum...!!
    but you spoilt my taste in the end :(

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  26. you are incomparable-to mess up even the humble idli needs considerable talent ;)

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  27. I need some coffee now ;)
    LOL

    :)
    :)

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  28. Lovely post. Happens to me quite often.

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  29. You are atrocious..i was thinking of making that trip to sharjah..but now I am in double minds..not even idli????

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  30. @sujatha: madam.. technical fault!!

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  31. Take me out when you invite me for lunch!

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  32. Just hilarious I would say - yes, both the incident and the way you described it to make us roll in loud laughter :) ha ha...

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