Good food takes time to prepare

Quite naturally, and sometimes through repeated fights, we have divided the chores in our home. Things are fluid mostly, but in a twenty four hour period the things that need to get done, do get done.

When it comes to cooking the dishes we cook are similarly split. In fact, here’s the rule: the first time someone cooks something, if it’s good, that’s that person’s dish going forward. Till death do us apart.

The good thing about this arrangement is that we are both good cooks. So we get to eat good food, different tastes, all through the course of weeks and days.

There are some things though, rajma, for example, which whenever I cook, it is never as good as Prerna.

Some things take time.

With rajma, you have to cook the onion, the tomato on a low flame for a long time. The longer you do it, the better it turns out.

You can see the onion floating in my gravy. Not so in Prerna’s rajma. It is chef’s kiss.

All of this to say, good food takes time. If you rush it, it will never be as good as it can be.

Same as in life. Good things take time. Patience is a virtue.