Ok here’s my question to all you ladies out there who have been married for a while and been managing their place and children quite well MashaAllah - have you known cooking since like always or you gradually learnt the hard way?
I just moved to the UK with my hubby like 2 months back …and been married for a few months now…despite knowing how to cook basic stuff …i had no practical experience and practice of daily cooking! So far all the women I met who have been married for 5/6 years here are culinary experts! Esp with my in laws here for a visit too..I kind of envy them for their efficiency and their over all talent
SO …does it come with time? or is it something of an innate trait? How did you learn to cook ? What could you cook when you were married?
aww enigmatic , do saal guzarne do , you will become a culinary expert too
The food that we get at the restaurants in the UK is so horrific that you will more or less start making food at home even for dawats ! I didnt know alot before i got nikkah’ed , I even got the reputation " ye her cheez ki kheer bana deti hai "
Anyways, cooking is a learning process, just tell us what you wanna learn and we will teach you the recipes … inshallah … cook bana kai hi chorein gai
But CB, you knew how to make roti's and stuff from an early age right? It helps a lot because it saves time and therefore you have more time to focus on practising other stuff.
yup stoppit , thats true ... lekin the fact is , cooking isnt rocket science , its just about learning the technique .. roti was the only thing i ever learnt making at an early age .. every thing else was kheer !!!
Infact roti is much easier to learn ... its the other stuff that needs careful handling ... and believe me, if you carefully observe the technique used in cooking , everything will become so easy to pick up :@:
daffy i will teach you to make gol gol roti’s … but first thing first , lets open up a thread for you … where if you are willing to learn , we will teach you… what say?
I love the idea! Yes please open a thread and teach me every little thing every cookign expert knows here. Consider me a student in your class and danto dabto magar sikha do kisi tarah
sigh well, i can make a good range of things even though i don't do so very often. from salans to kababs and roasts and things like lasagna and quiches. howeverrrrr, i'm still crap at making roti's. i don't even bother to try now and rather leave it until it's necessary for me to do it everyday. the only long term practice i got was a few years back when my parents went for hajj and i took care of the siblings for over month. food side of stuff was fine and i tried a lot of different stuff but i think in that whole time i just made a handful of 'good' rotis. most of them were not round and a bit too crispy. that really put me off. i'm one of those people who is usually good at something quickly and it frustrates me that i couldn't master that.
awww stoppit, here are the tricks to a good roti :
1- Make sure the dough is round , if the dough is not round and when you even the dough , its not balanced , the roti will not come out round... to do the dough, take some ata in your hand, then start folding the corners into the center , in all directions .. until you get a nice round ...
2- make sure you use enough dry ata when rolling it out ... otherwise the more it sticks the more it will lose its shape
3- do a roti on a really hot tawa on medium heat .. if you have a cold tawa or low heat , it will become stiff and crispy ...
Try thse tips next time you make roti and let me know how it goes ..
thanks CB. thing is, i know all the theory. i think i'm just too impatient. there is technique involved and that's what annoys me.
usually i hate my mum showing me to do.. i'm a 'doing' learner. but for roti, i tried really hard to watch her and then replicate with her guiding me.. still not great!
stoppit :no: Wish you were close by , I would have made sure you learnt to make gol gol roti chalo koi bat nai , I think I am getting bored of gol roti’s , together we can start a trend of tear shaped roti and australia ka map roti
Rosetta , me too .. I learnt it the hard way too …
sigh well, i can make a good range of things even though i don't do so very often. from salans to kababs and roasts and things like lasagna and quiches. howeverrrrr, i'm still crap at making roti's. i don't even bother to try now and rather leave it until it's necessary for me to do it everyday. the only long term practice i got was a few years back when my parents went for hajj and i took care of the siblings for over month. food side of stuff was fine and i tried a lot of different stuff but i think in that whole time i just made a handful of 'good' rotis. most of them were not round and a bit too crispy. that really put me off. i'm one of those people who is usually good at something quickly and it frustrates me that i couldn't master that.
I have the exact same problem.. I'm the kind of person who's always been good at everything I've tried to do, and I have never cooked anything that hasn't tasted good (alhumulillah!) but roti is one thing that I still cannot do, even after 3 yrs of being married.
And on top of that, my husband LOVES homemade roti. but my rotis are always either hard or rubbery, and they are always half under-cooked and half burned :S
pata nhi qn dekhna ka dil chah raha hai
i learnt it the hard way 
