Mind Cooking by my Dear Husband

Hi Friends.

One might wonder why this title for an egg curry, let me explain. Yesterday night my husband suddenly had a desire to have an egg curry and he asked me do we have some eggs left, and he got an answer ‘yes’. He said I want to do some MIND COOKING, I kept wondering what’s that? As I have mentioned I do keep some chopped vegetables ready in my refrigerator, so he had some handy chopped onions and green chilies to use. I helped him in the kitchen by chopping some tomatoes  and boiling the eggs. While cooking he explained me what he meant by MIND COOKING.

The mind suddenly conjures up a taste that it wants to eat. Once a desired taste builds up   then head keeps working trying to put together a cocktail of spices, which  is likely to result in the desired taste that the tongue was seeking. So the ultimate measure of success of any such foray into the kitchen depends on how close the end result was to the original desire. Since in any case the original desire, the process or the end result are not based on/ comparable to any known recipe. 

Now DH’s  tongue was asking for a particular taste which he said will taste some what like a thick, tangy kerala curry devoid of coconut but with loads of curry leaves  in it and he had a feeling that it will go well with appams or idiappams. So, the skeptical me, while he was cooking  kept asking him that he has hardly used any spices and we should have used more finely chopped onions..but he said that he would have preferred more coarsely chopped onions. To tell you truly I was not too sure whether I would love the end product and might have to search for something else to eat but gladly nothing of that happened, I enjoyed the curry and as he suggested this would taste brilliant with appam. The salt in the curry was on a little higher side which got compensated by the bland eggs but his MIND COOKING was SUCCESSFUL, he got the flavour and the consistency which he had aspired for!

So here’s DH’s recipe for the Kerala Style Egg Curry

Ingredients

6 boiled eggs

4 onions either sliced or coarsely chopped

6-7 green chilies chopped ( mine were not spicy)

2 tomatoes chopped

1 tsp ginger paste

1 tbsp tamarind paste

3-4 sprigs of curry leaves

2 tsp red chili pwd

1/2 tsp turmeric pwd

salt to taste

oil for cooking

1 tsp mustard seeds

Method

Heat oil and splutter the mustard seeds.

Saute the onions, green chilies, some curry leaves and ginger paste.

Now add the turmeric pwd and chili pwd and saute.

Add tomatoes, tamarind and salt to taste.

When the tomatoes are a little mushy add 1/2 cup water and simmer.

Cut the eggs into halves and pour the curry over them.

Serve it hot with rice or appams.

DH, I am quite happy that we could spend some more time together like this while you concocted a new preparation. I loved being your assistant in the cooking and enjoyed the dinner. Hope to get this kind of treat more frequently.

What is your say on this dear friends?

  Sending this to Priti’s event