Kumar - How to Cook In A Jiffy Even If You Have Never Boiled An Egg Before

HOW TO COOK IN A JIFFY

EVEN IF YOU HAVE NEVER BOILED AN EGG BEFORE

By Prasenjeet Kumar

Ver. 4.0 (corrects measurements by giving metric, imperial and American quantities)

Copyright Prasenjeet Kumar 2014

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To reiterate, this e-book is licensed strictly for your personal use. If you would like to spread the good word about this book, which we hope you would, then please purchase an additional copy for each such recipient. If youre reading this book and did not purchase it, then we earnestly request you to consider purchasing your own copy. We are grateful to you for recognizing and respecting the hard work that this author has put in for bringing out this book.

For more information, you are welcome to address the author at ciaj@cookinginajiffy.com.

Photographs of ready-made 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.

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Cooking home-made meals can do wonders for your health and well-being. But a lot of times hectic work schedule does not let couples create meals from scratch at home. I get a lot of questions from readers who are willing to cook at home but do not find the necessary time and energy to do so.

In this PDF (which is a 22,000 word document), I share the tips and techniques that anyone can use to create a complete breakfast, lunch or dinner meal from scratch in less than 30 minutes. Here is the link:

https://authormarketing.booklaunch.io/prasenjeetkumar@hotmail.com/how-to-create-a-complete-meal-in-a-jiffy

Cookinginajiffy.com

I received a copy of this book from the author in exchange for an honest review. This is a good informative book for someone starting out in the adventure of cooking. This would make a great gift for a young bride just starting out with her new duties of cooking or a single person getting out on their own. In today's busy life parents often don't have the time to teach their kids the important skill of cooking. This book is wrote very easy to understand with clear step by step directions to follow to help you learn the cooking basics. I enjoyed the simplicity of the recipes that were shared and the approach to embrace cooking without worrying about the imperfections that can sometimes happen and just enjoy the end results. It is a wonderful tool to help instill a love of cooking and a healthier approach to a quick and good for you meal in a jiffy!

B Farrell

T his book (and its partner website cookinginajiffy.com) 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. She is the sole reason behind the good health and well-being of our entire family. I still remember as a two-year old child, when my mother would be in the kitchen, I would sit on the floor and in a spirit of togetherness, take a toy wok, put in it all the peels of vegetables and stir them feverishly imitating my mother.

Unlike most fathers who would leave their wives to cook food 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 (and website) 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 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.

I was 20 years old and was literally on cloud nine. I had an offer for admission into the prestigious BA (LLB) Honours course of the University College London (UCL), one of the top most Universities in the world. For studying my dream course of Law, with a degree that is recognized in India, there just couldnt be a greater place.

Like any other happy go lucky man, I didn't know cooking. This is not considered a life threatening disease because at home, in India, cooking is mostly done by domestic help. They were generally trained by my mother into churning out the kind of dishes that we liked. My mother had learnt some cooking from her mother. But she loved reading cookbooks, downloading recipes from various websites, and experimenting with various cuisines. Many times she would even experiment with nouvelle cuisine that she would come across in a fancy restaurant abroad.

UCL had a wide variety of accommodation. Most of them were self-catered and only two were catered halls. Since I didnt know any cooking, I exercised extraordinary care to opt for only catered halls in the application form and crossed out all the non-catered or self-catered options. After a couple of months, I was informed, to my great relief, that my application for a catered hall was SUCCESSFUL. I was allocated Ifor Evans, a Hall Of Residence, located in Camden Town.

Came 20 September 2005 and I landed at London Heathrow after a gruelling nine-hour non-stop flight from India. Immediately I had to get into an extremely long queue for immigration. It was 6:00 in the evening (which was 11.30 pm by Indian Standard time).

My turn at the immigration counter came after about an hour. I handed over my passport and caught a furtive glance at the form that the Immigration Officer was scribbling on. My heart did skip a beat or two because the form had such ominous choices as Arrest Him; Deport Him and so on. The officer, however, had just a cursory look at my documents and instead of asking any tricky questions, congratulated me for doing such a great job by gaining admission at UCL. Then he remarked that since this meant that I would be spending more than six months in the UK, I needed to see a doctor. I was puzzled. After all, it did sound like that if you planned to be spending more than six months in the UK, and that too during the winters, you certainly needed to get your head examined by a doctor at the Heathrow airport!!!