Happiness is ‘Chopping vegetables the way you wish’.
Chopping
Vegetables is a skill and an enjoyable activity. I can never understand why
people depend on helpers to do this task. Some even dump their veggies into the
food processor to get the quick results. Okay, I agree, I do that too
sometimes. But chopping vegetables is an art. The act of slicing through the
soft flesh with sharp knife, and getting the sweet fragrance of the veggies is
a pure joy.
There
are different ways to chop vegetables. When you wish to make Chinese fried
rice, veggies should be chopped very fine and slant wise. When cooking for
noodles, it needs to be chopped lengthwise. For biryani it is in big square
pieces, and in curry, you can just dump it whole after slicing off the ends.
With
carving knife, we can give good shapes and make artistic visual presentations on
salads. There is art everywhere that only chef understands. Chopping veggies is
the extension of cooking because only the chef knows what taste will emerge
from the veggies chopped in a certain way. If done wrong, there are chances of
veggies half cooked or overcooked and soggy.
Chopping
veggies is an art that I love as much as the art of cooking itself.
So here I am, with the project of ‘100 Happy Days’I
am posting pictures each day here on my blog then sharing the link on my page
on FB too. You can enjoy my work either here or on my page at FB at Pushee’s World
