You know you've cooked well when

[knutties]

You know you've cooked well when people literally leave the plate spotless :)

Oh yeah, the menu today was

• Drumstick sambhar
• Lemon-Tomato rasam
• Carrot curry

Cooking is the most rewarding art IMO.

Comments

[sunson]

Totally.

Are you 'iyer'? ;) ("carrot curry" is so iyer. Its so non-iyengar :D )

[knutties]

Yup, the pattai case. What do Iyengars call it?

[sunson]

We don't make carrot curry unless one is in dire-straits. Even if we do, we don't "announce" it. It is considered a 'stingy' thing :P

[knutties]

Even if we do, we don't "announce" it
Why not?

It is considered a 'stingy' thing
Why so?

Am clueless here.

[sunson]

So am I! I don't entirely understand the 'mind' of an Iyengar. but I've made black-box observations about it and know very well how it works ;)

You can make generalizations that Iyengars think of Iyers as 'stingy' as much as how Iyers think of Iyengars as 'lavish'. ;)

[knutties]

You can make generalizations that Iyengars think of Iyers as 'stingy' as much as how Iyers think of Iyengars as 'lavish'. ;)

This is new to me :) Coming to think of, yeah this thought does seem to exist.

[karthikeyanr]

110% correct... I have heard what sunson says :) but the carrot curry stumps me...

[mewpsych]

Exactly! New to me too.
Never knew that carrot was subjected to racial discrimination. :)
Thank God i was born 'Iyer' as i looovveee carrots.

[karthikeyanr]

Wassup doc *munches carrot* :)