Sunday, April 1, 2007

An ultimate guide to cooking for dummies

Just for your information, before you journey through the rarest display of modern English literature (by modern I mean the beginning of 21st century, which was the time when my ties with English started to unstrung **) , I must tell you that this is not just an ordinary post made to kill my as well as your time; but its here for the greater good of all those losers out there living by their own who starve to emaciation just because they are too lazy to move their tushie or are always, as they crib, short of time. So the remedy too all their sorrows is POTATO...a BOILED one actually I must say. Yes my loser friend, if you always have boiled potatoes in your house you would never whine of hunger. Be it sandwich, mix veg, a raw mix with spice, a pizza topping (ahem..may be I went a bit too far to assert my point) or any damn dish..potatoes just add marvels to it. What you need is just a pressure cooker (which scared the hell out of my Taiwanese friend when he saw the steam-wonder-engine). I really feel sorry for my cooker deprived international friends who don't realize the utility of this boiling machine and cannot avail the ultimate idea presented here (may be some will change their mind once they read this). So whenever you have some free time, get a pressure cooker and boil some potatoes. And don't get tricked with the painful whistling of the cooker and turn-off the gas. Wait for at least fifteen whistles (even though you might have your room-mates, turned deaf - unintentionally of course - due to this noble deed of yours , ready to send out a contract killer for you), and wait for 5 min before uncovering the cooker. And there you are ... as simple as that. You better remove its skin while its hot, because that's the time when its easiest to do. So that's it !! That's the whole wisdom you needed. So go ahead, enjoy the boiled potatoes in whatever way you want and say thanks to me. Adios !!!

** To know about my desperate and optimistic but useless attempts to recapture my prowess on this art, wait for my future posts।

PS: As much dumb this post may seem to you, more useful this idea is...trust me !!

4 comments:

Abhesh Kumar Tripathi said...

I am not here to thank u bcoz I still haven't tried ur method for boiling potatoes. But nevertheless I have
tried to do something similar with maggies without using the so called extremely useful pressure cooker. I hope my tryst with pressure cooker will be equally interesting.

Prashant said...

Thanks for trading the idea Abhesh. Sure I will try yours.

Ravi said...

good at least you learned how to boil potatoes...

Prashant said...

hahaha..thanks ex-roomie