A Egg-Potato Curry and a Sermon

Egg – potato curry

Ingredients :

Egg                                                                                      – four

Potato                                                                                  – four

Tomato                                                                                – one

Onion                                                                                   - two

Ginger                                                                                  – 10 grams

Garlic -                                                                                 -  10 grams (10 cloves)

Green Chillies                                                                      – four pcs

Coriander leaves                                                                  – ten grams

Red Chilly powder                                                               – two tea spoons

Coriander power                                                                   – One and a half tea spoon

Tamarind power                                                                    – half a tea spoon

Meat Masala                                                                         -  half a tea spoon

Vinegar                                                                                 -  one tea spoon

Oil & Salt as per requirement 

Put eggs in a Boiling pot for boiling. After sufficiently boiling put off the flame and let it cool.

Peel and cut potatoes vertically into four pcs, chop onions, ginger and garlic cloves into small bits and tomato into small pcs. Peel off the boiled, cooled eggs  and cut them upside down into two pcs.each.

Flame the stove and pour five to six tea spoon cooking oil into a pan and put potato pcs till the potato becomes semi brown. Take out the fried potatoes to a plate.

Put the neatly chopped onion, ginger and garlic bits into the pan and let it fry in medium flame for three minutes.Add  green chillies (split with one cut) into the pan and stir slowly for a minute. Add tamarind, chilly, coriander powder and meet masala with the mixture and stir for a minute until it smells. Do not forget to add salt. Add pcs of tomato and stir well till the masala mix becomes brown. Pour vinegar into the mixture and then add two cups of water and let it boil in low flame till the gravy becomes thick. Put the fried potato pcs into the curry and then slowly place the neatly peeled, horizontally cut eggs cut side up. Spread the minutely cut coriander leaves over the curry. Keep the pan over stove for half a minute more and douse the flame. Add half a cup milk and let it spread all over.

Good for rice and chappati – Why not try?

                                    

A thought for the day

On Sunday the 9^th of November, 2014 I was on my way to the Church for the usual Sunday Mass. My young friend, Joel who was my cab company on our way to the NDTV “We the People” Show, met me at the church’s gate and excitedly intro me to his Dad. Joel introduced me to his Dad as his co-participant in the talk-show. I extended my right hand, calling out my name, in good spirit expecting a warm hand-shake and a reciprocative self introduction. The Gentleman took my hand of friendship with a pinch of disinterest - a cold four finger touch  and a quick – I don’t care type- smirk  and then made a  walk  into the congregation of  faithful, pretending as if he will be a sinner if slightly late for the mass.

I wonder if he presumed that I am an LIC agent, who will kill him to make a policy alive with my tongue lashing. No it may not be the case.  I am sure, He doesn’t take his son, a college graduate pursuing law seriously enough or perhaps his attitude is reserved for all Joel’s friends and I accidently happened to be one.

The Sunday sermon was based on the story of the ‘Good Samaritan’ who spent his time, money and patience to look after a way-side beggar suffering with pain and fever in the biting winter on the street of Jerusalem. The beggar was passed by a priest, a merchant and many other socially very important persons. But the’Samaritan’ who was a mere traveller who never belonged to the town was the only person to take notice of the suffering man and  cared to nurse him.

With Jesus Christ’s famous parable, the celebrant Father was educating the attendant  believers that mere attending the mass and not looking at a human being suffering on the way side with pain and difficulties only make the ritual a farce.

Though the parable has  little to do with me and the embarrassed young Joel, it calls for a rethinking on the pattern of our behaviour when a person is introduced for the first time, even though the introducer is your own child and the introduced is a stranger. It is important to exhibit basic courtesy and good mannerism at all times for the sake of the honour of your child.

I have cited this true incident to tell young parents to take your child seriously enough. Appreciate his achievements and respect his friends with basic courtesy and decency. Your son may still be your child, but believe me, he is also an individual with varied qualities and multiple aquintances elsewhere.