Kitchen Mess
He came by our home,
limping across the grassy turf
on a bandaged foot.
"Did you go to school today?" I asked him. He smiled and nodded. Teenagers are sometimes irritating if not irritable. When you want them in school, they would play truant. When the doctor prescribed a genuine excuse to stay home, they craved for school. My nephew mumbled something I didn't catch and left me amongst the kitchen chaos.
I returned my attention to the groceries lining the table. I have to mix and match and see which goes where and with what... The supermarket shelves and freezers offered unlimited mouth-watering line of products. Hahaha I guessed, the fasting could be the root cause. Imagine me, staring on a packet of curry powder, already smelling the tantalizing aroma of spicy chicken curry! And I would need some potatoes, soft cooked potatoes in curry would taste great. Around the corner was the Agar-agar jelly powder. Versions of cold sweet jellies popping up in my head. Or maybe I should get flour for the bread machine. And the list of suggestions went on and on... Whatever it was, I was in my elements with ingredients and cooking utensils, creating calmness out of chaos.
Completing my dishes, I pat myself on the back for the great-tasting food (It looked and smell great so the taste should too!) and started to clean up. My two sisters and cousin burst into the kitchen exclaiming that they were about to prepare a special dish (after hours of searching for the recipe!).
"Do we need the oil?"
"I can't find salt"
"No, no, can you check the recipe again?" Three heads hard at work on one dish.
Well, what can I say. Back to the drawing board!"
limping across the grassy turf
on a bandaged foot.
"Did you go to school today?" I asked him. He smiled and nodded. Teenagers are sometimes irritating if not irritable. When you want them in school, they would play truant. When the doctor prescribed a genuine excuse to stay home, they craved for school. My nephew mumbled something I didn't catch and left me amongst the kitchen chaos.
I returned my attention to the groceries lining the table. I have to mix and match and see which goes where and with what... The supermarket shelves and freezers offered unlimited mouth-watering line of products. Hahaha I guessed, the fasting could be the root cause. Imagine me, staring on a packet of curry powder, already smelling the tantalizing aroma of spicy chicken curry! And I would need some potatoes, soft cooked potatoes in curry would taste great. Around the corner was the Agar-agar jelly powder. Versions of cold sweet jellies popping up in my head. Or maybe I should get flour for the bread machine. And the list of suggestions went on and on... Whatever it was, I was in my elements with ingredients and cooking utensils, creating calmness out of chaos.
Completing my dishes, I pat myself on the back for the great-tasting food (It looked and smell great so the taste should too!) and started to clean up. My two sisters and cousin burst into the kitchen exclaiming that they were about to prepare a special dish (after hours of searching for the recipe!).
"Do we need the oil?"
"I can't find salt"
"No, no, can you check the recipe again?" Three heads hard at work on one dish.
Well, what can I say. Back to the drawing board!"
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