After years and years of trial and error and practice is one able to estimate without any professional Satellite aided hi-fi instruments, as to when the food is cooked just right and is ready for serving and eating with your loved ones.
Its one of those decisions of the day which should give you immense pleasure when you get it right. Unfortunately, we take that skill for granted. How about being AWARE of getting this right and patting yourself on the back for a job well done? Only if one had that rate of success with the other decisions one makes during the day to make a living. But Alas!
In Indian Cuisine we rarely eat anything which is uncooked or has reasonably realistic quantities of Oil and Spices in it. But this does make the food sinfully delicious. The only problem is that Indian Food is so good that after eating it, one feels hungry in about 5 to 6 days!
And then there are the Japanese who eat most of the food uncooked and sans Oil. Some one has commented that in Japan they call it SUSHI, in India we call it BAIT. Be that as it may, one rarely sees a fat Jap or hears of a Jap with Heart Ailments.
That is strictly our privilege to suffer!
After gorging on Indian food over the weekend one felt like eating Sushi. It also takes off the guilt you see.
If you ask Fish eaters, unless one is physically and spiritually involved in the process of selecting and buying the Fish, eating Fish is just not the same experience. And when it is in India, add to it the ISO 9002 CERTIFIED process of HAGGLING with the Fisher woman. But unfortunately this holy ritual doesn't exist in the super markets here.
After prancing up and down the Fish aisle many times over, the Norwegian Salmon succeeded in seducing me. Not being used to buying anything in 1, I selected two Fillets of Fresh Pink/Orange/Divine/Mouthwatering (call it what you may) Salmon.
Like some marriages are made in heaven, Thyme is a Herb which goes very well with Salmon, especially when infused in Olive Oil as a medium. I lovingly sliced the Salmon in fine strips with the same concentration of a 747 Pilot when he is Landing, and dipped those strips in Thyme infused Olive Oil and laid the slices out on a serving dish to allow the Salmon to soak in the flavor of Thyme and then added some Capers.
The white Paneer look-alike on the Star Shaped plate is FISH TAUFOO which went very well with Japanese Saba sauce dipping. Damn it was awesome!
Which reminds me, what did the Fish say when he hit a Concrete wall..." DAM "!
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