THE DRAMATIC LOVE AND HATRED

Chapter 17 - Steev's Recipe

Steev's POV :

I poured water in that vessel and washed it neatly. I was preparing such dish all alone for the first time. John and I used to do it together before. John was a good cook.

After cleaning the meat I added the required ingredients and marinated the meat.

On the other hand I chopped all the required vegetables. The required vegetables were capsicum, tomato, onion, green chilly and coriander leaves. I chopped them finely and kept it aside.

In a pan I kept 3 table spoons of cooking oil to heat up and after that I added the chopped veggies one by one and roasted them. After that I added all the required masala and sauces and roasted it well again. Later I added sufficient amount of water and left it to boil. On the other hand I kept oil in a pan so that I can fry the marinated meat. After the oil heated I deep fried all that I marinated and added it to the another pan where I had already prepared the gravy. After adding it to the pan I mixed them very well and added coriander leaves. The yummy dish was ready. I was so happy that I prepared it by myself. I thought of tasting the yummy dish which I prepared so I took a piece and put it inside my mouth. I felt something is missing in this dish. The dish had dead taste. I was not getting any flavor.

I started recalling all the items and ingredients which I added in the dish and also which I had to add.

After recalling one by one for a minute I remembered that I forgot to add the main ingredient in the dish and that was salt. I started laughing for my own stupidity.

Then quickly I added the required amount of salt and mixed it well. And then I tasted the dish.

Amazing!!! the taste was great. My hard work and dedication was worth it. I was successful in preparing a tasty dish. “Now I can peacefully serve it to John”, I thought. I wanted to serve it to Shika as well. I thought after John comes I will discuss with him about it.

After all that was done the time was 12 PM. I was very hungry. As I had prepared a yummy dish I thought of preparing rice and having it with the dish. Therefore I kept the rice to get cooked and meanwhile thought of cleaning the mess which I created in the kitchen while cooking.

As my rice was getting cooked I cleaned the entire kitchen. Thankfully we had a small room and a small kitchen. Due to which cleaning the rooms were not much difficult.

My rice was ready so I served some rice and my dish on the plate and sat down peacefully to have it.

As I was alone enjoying my day I suddenly felt if I had a life partner with me it would be a amazing life journey. I would have a partner to share each and everything that I was feeling and I could talk to her anything I felt and so on. When I was thinking about having a life partner the only person who came into my mind was Shika.