A Hundred Days Of This - Day 5

For someone who has grown up avidly reading the food section in Eenadu Aadivaaram book, I just realised that I cannot write down recipes. I have reached a stage where I am eyeballing the spices to be added to the dish and guessing the stages of cooking through smell. Am I turning into my mother now? Maybe.

I was planning writing down the recipe of baked sweet potatoes here tonight but I do not remember what I did while cooking them. It was just a random concoction of sweet potatoes, avocado oil, chilli flakes, salt, garlic powder, onion powder and amchur. Mix mix mix and baked for about 50 minutes at 200° C. Et voila!

Even when my friends ask me for recipes this is exactly how I tell them. Explaining the process is a lot more easier than specifying than the measured portions of every ingredient. Is that normal or is it just me?

Anyway the potatoes turned out nice and yum, and I am slowly getting closer to learning how to bake things. One dish at a time, baby! Maybe I will learn how to bake a loaf of bread by the time I finish the 100 days of writing challenge. Who knows maybe I will even grow my sourdough starter next. The world is full of tasty possibilities. 

Have you had a day when you thought to yourself "vedhava udhyogaalu anni maanesi oka punugula bandi pettukunte boledu dabbulu sampaadinchacchu" But only after taking food and cooking seriously I have come to a conclusion that punugula bandi is not at all an easy job with respect to both efforts that are required to whip up those perfect punugulu with tomato chutney and the drab numbers that go into investing in the F&B business. Especially after seeing the number of eateries that are sprouting up like mushrooms all over India while many of them drown in debts and wind up even before they celebrate their first anniversary of setting up business. That is quite a sad state of affairs given how easily we underestimate the power of food and finance.

Is it a good time to read Chhaunk by Abhijit Banerjee now? Maybe. Is it a good time to document my cooking so that I can pass it down to my children? Maybe. We will figure it out soon.

And that's Day 5 for you!