Kumar - How to Create a Complete Meal in a Jiffy

HOW TO CREATE A COMPLETE MEAL

IN A JIFFY

Prasenjeet Kumar

Copyright Prasenjeet Kumar 2014

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Photographs of dishes have been provided wherever possible. All photographs are taken by the author himself, in natural light, without using any inedible garnish or props, and of the dishes that were made right in his house. These are just meant to illustrate how exactly the dish would look like if you prepared them yourself.

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Disclaimers

Although the Author has made every effort to ensure that the information in this book was correct at the time of publication, the Author does not assume and hereby disclaims any liability to any party for any loss, damage, or disruption caused by errors or omissions, whether such errors or omissions result from negligence, accident, or any other cause.

This book is not intended as a substitute for the medical advice of physicians. The reader should regularly consult a physician in matters relating to his/her health and particularly with respect to any symptoms that may require diagnosis or medical attention.

This book also assumes that the reader does not suffer from any food allergies or related medical conditions. Readers suffering from food allergies are requested to skip the recipes that contains ingredients which trigger adverse reactions in that reader or in his/her family and friends.

The spellings used in this book are British, which may look strange to my American friends, but NOT to those living in Australia, Canada, India, Ireland and of course the United Kingdom. This means that color is written as colour and so on. I hope that is NOT too confusing!

Acknowledgements

This book is dedicated to my dearest mother who loves not only cooking but also experimenting with food. Despite being a working mother (she is actually a very senior Indian Administrative Service officer), she is an ardent believer in the philosophy that kitchens should be a happy place for families. I still remember how as a two-year old, when my mother would be in the kitchen, I would sit on the floor and in a spirit of togetherness, take a wok, put in it all the discarded peels of vegetables and stir them feverishly imitating my mother.

Unlike most fathers who would leave their wives to cook while sitting and watching television, I have seen my father, who too is coincidentally a very senior Indian Administrative Service officer, helping my mother in washing and cutting vegetables, kneading dough and so on, especially in the days when we didnt have reliable domestic help. This often resulted in meals being cooked from scratch within 30 minutes. And the bonus was that cooking time came to be always celebrated, as family time, with lots of cutting, washing, steaming and frying going on side by side with such planning, co-ordination, and sequencing of operations that would put a Mission to Mars to shame! I, therefore, dedicate this book to my father too, who even now takes time off to advise me on what my book should focus on, and sometimes even gives editing suggestions.

To reiterate, dear readers, please note that the recipes compiled in this book (as well as the ones posted on its partner website cookinginajiffy.com) belong to my mother. She is the original author of all the recipes and NOT ME. I have simply put these out in the public domain to enable others to understand and follow our philosophy of cooking, if they so wish.

I next dedicate this book to all my friends, relatives and acquaintances who have sampled my moms cooking either at my home or at my work place from my lunch-box and have pestered me to share those recipes.

Finally, I wish to express my gratitude to all those visitors, fans and followers to my website http://www.cookinginajiffy.com/as well as to my Facebook and Twitter pages and for their really encouraging comments and constructive suggestions that have not only kept my morale high in some really frustrating times but have also resulted into the writing of this book.

A fter publishing four cookbooks and running the website www.cookinginajiffy.com for over 20 months, I realise that while people dont mind picking up tips for rustling up an individual dish or two, they baulk at the prospect of making a FULL 3-4 course meal, even during the weekends.

One often heard excuse is that most of us are busy people and do not have enough time for cooking. We have to rush to our office or college or Gym, prepare for tutorials or hang out with friends. In the process, cooking becomes a chore and a casualty.

Even when we are able to cook something, we rarely have the satisfaction of having a full balanced meal. Is then there a way out?

I dare say YES.

You indeed CAN CHURN OUT A FULL THREE-FOUR COURSE MEAL IN LESS THAN THIRTY MINUTES.

How is that possible?

With just Proper Sequencing and Parallel Processing of our actions, is my answer. This means that we should plan our meals in such a manner that while one dish is getting ready, we make the other. This little planning in advance can reduce both the cooking and preparation time considerably and enable you to prepare a full 3-4 course meal literally in a JIFFY.

Please dont be alarmed with the use of such big words as sequencing and parallel processing. This is no rocket science because unconsciously we all continuously sequence our actions and do parallel processing.

When you wear your socks before slipping into your shoes, havent you just sequenced your actions in a very logical manner? And who doesnt walk while listening to music-but then you just indulged into some parallel processing, howsoever ill-advised it may be, especially when you are walking with traffic around you!

Cooking is no different, except that you probably dont know (or havent thought about) as to how with proper sequencing and parallel processing you can reduce your drudgery by many, many folds.

The Concept of Full Meals and Parallel Processing

This book is a humble attempt to let you experiment with this idea of SEQUENCING AND PARALLEL PROCESSING.

In that background, I have attempted to present around 40 dishes grouped into 10 meals consisting of: two concepts of breakfasts, four Indian meals, one Thai meal, one Japanese meal, and two Western meals. All are 3-4 course meals and all can be completed in less than 30-minutes.