While shopping for weekly groceries ( Never thought it would come to this day), I decided to be adventurous this saturday night and make a Paneer dish at last after trying dry sabzi's only for quite some time owing to my fear to use pressure cooker that it might blast itself to pieces, I really need to get over that. So I quickly had to check in recipe that whether it required pressure cooker. It did not and off we go. ! Of course if I would have been more vigilant, I would have learnt that dish required various pastes and purees which required arsenal that I could not comprehend with my modest kitchen capabilities.
So once I was about to start on it, I was missing a hand blender first of all and then cashew nuts and then cream. But somehow I was determined, undeterred that tonight this needed to be done. Enough with Aloo* sabzis, I had test my hand at this. Went to Walmart, out 24 hour open supercenter and got the food processor and cashews and cream for the dish. As I started working my way on puree, and it was time to blend the tomatoes, my new food processor betrayed (or I thought) and decided not to start. The exchange center generally closes early so I had to wait till morning to get it replaced. Yes, 30 day return/exchange policy on everything everywhere. Bizzare when I first came to know about this !
Sunday Noon, I decided not to give up and decided to dedicate this day to a successful dish, so I went back to walmart and exchanged that for a new one. But as a typical Indian, I decided to test that at walmart itself so that I do not have to get another round in if something does not work. I opened it up and decided to plug the base in one of the sockets and Woh ! it would not start as well. I took it to exchange lady again and she wanted to give it a try so she also tried her permutations and combinations, but to no effect and success. While waiting 5 minutes someone in the line suggested these things don't work if you do not fix the cover and plug in bowl correctly. I knew my foolishness then, asked that let me try this at home again and I will bring it back if it does not work. By the time, the exchange lady also had the motor started. I wrapped it all up.
That's something about me. Each day, I find new ways to embarrass myself. It just comes so naturally to me. Other day at the San Diego airport, I got in line to get a Muffin, there was a nice poster in front of glass where they were kept which said "Freshly Baked Muffins" and when it was my turn, the counter girl asked my what kind of Muffin I wanted, I replied Freshly basked ones and she gave me a look that said that "of course they are fresh by default you idiot".
Back home with new blender (old one was also functional if I had read the manual, sometime applying just goes out of the window), I decided to make the pastes. Cashew paste took me 4 times to get right in the end. I added water and cashews together 3 times in different proportions and each time I got a soggy semi solid thing was no closer to paste. Finally got it right. Tried mixing it all up got a dish though a tinge of sourness in my final result. Maybe I added less sugar or added a little but more onions but edible in the end. And of course not to forget the colossal mess that I created in kitchen today. ! Of course had to clean it all up too !
So once I was about to start on it, I was missing a hand blender first of all and then cashew nuts and then cream. But somehow I was determined, undeterred that tonight this needed to be done. Enough with Aloo* sabzis, I had test my hand at this. Went to Walmart, out 24 hour open supercenter and got the food processor and cashews and cream for the dish. As I started working my way on puree, and it was time to blend the tomatoes, my new food processor betrayed (or I thought) and decided not to start. The exchange center generally closes early so I had to wait till morning to get it replaced. Yes, 30 day return/exchange policy on everything everywhere. Bizzare when I first came to know about this !
Sunday Noon, I decided not to give up and decided to dedicate this day to a successful dish, so I went back to walmart and exchanged that for a new one. But as a typical Indian, I decided to test that at walmart itself so that I do not have to get another round in if something does not work. I opened it up and decided to plug the base in one of the sockets and Woh ! it would not start as well. I took it to exchange lady again and she wanted to give it a try so she also tried her permutations and combinations, but to no effect and success. While waiting 5 minutes someone in the line suggested these things don't work if you do not fix the cover and plug in bowl correctly. I knew my foolishness then, asked that let me try this at home again and I will bring it back if it does not work. By the time, the exchange lady also had the motor started. I wrapped it all up.
That's something about me. Each day, I find new ways to embarrass myself. It just comes so naturally to me. Other day at the San Diego airport, I got in line to get a Muffin, there was a nice poster in front of glass where they were kept which said "Freshly Baked Muffins" and when it was my turn, the counter girl asked my what kind of Muffin I wanted, I replied Freshly basked ones and she gave me a look that said that "of course they are fresh by default you idiot".
Back home with new blender (old one was also functional if I had read the manual, sometime applying just goes out of the window), I decided to make the pastes. Cashew paste took me 4 times to get right in the end. I added water and cashews together 3 times in different proportions and each time I got a soggy semi solid thing was no closer to paste. Finally got it right. Tried mixing it all up got a dish though a tinge of sourness in my final result. Maybe I added less sugar or added a little but more onions but edible in the end. And of course not to forget the colossal mess that I created in kitchen today. ! Of course had to clean it all up too !
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