I am making stew for dinner.As I chop up carrots and potatoes,beans, cauliflower,mushrooms,tomatoes and onions,I wonder how well the veggies get along with each other. Maybe the carrot thinks its prettier than the potato, or the beans don't like the look of the mushrooms and the onions make every one cry!
As the aroma of browning onions wafts through the kitchen, I add a pinch of cinnamon to the cooking pot. Its sharp, distinctive flavourlends richness to the stew.Its the tomatoes turn now to be pureed and added to onions.As the pot bubbles, in go the veggies one by one. 'Hey don't encroach on my space', I'm so upset, no one likes me', 'Move out of my way', 'Do you need help?','I'll listen to you'; all of that and more must go on as the veggies dance around in the pot.In goes the salt, the pepper and a pinch of sugar, the spicy sweet flavours that perk up the stew.A tblsp of corn flour is added for thickening and as the pot simmers, I smile and think of my experiences with fellow veggies in this stew pot called life.
3 comments:
Hi, there!
Hello from a fellow veggie from your stew pot--the one that threw the chopped onions in the trash and wondered how she could cook with all that onion skin! The one who cries with happiness even to this day at the thought of those old times.
As Carl sandburg said, "Life is like an onion: You peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep." And I would add, if you know how to create a mean stew with all those veggies--sweet, sour, spicy, and bitter--the tears of happiness and sadness both provide the much needed salt of life!
Happy Tamil New Year. Let's begin the new year by welcoming all five flavors of this stew of life.
Wonderful blog. Keep it up!
Cheers,
Boova
priya..
which vegetable are u?
onion? (heh)
or a happy radish?
a much used and abused tomato?
etc..
She is a smiling fresh carrot... a little bruised, but still as sweet as ever... bright and hopeful... hope u stay that way!
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