Prasad & Kranthi at Stove
Sri Prasad and Dr. Kanthi, two leaders of our Pilgrimage of Peace with their adult son were at our house today to show us, pilgrims of peace, how to prepare, cook and enjoy a home cooked Indian meal. There will be more pictures and recipes to come on the site about this wonderful meal.
For now let me just say it was simple slow meal that took us a while to prepare. First thing we needed to do was take stock of what I had and did not have in way of ingredients for this meal of the best food the region around Hyderabad had to offer. Than it was a trip to the Indian Grocery store to purchase spices and ingredients we did not have. A few things needed advance preparation but the cooking began in earnest when most of the guests, persons who had taken the pilgrimage and a few friends, had arrived. It was a hands-on cooking session led by Kranthi, Prasad and their adult son, who (believe it or not) took cooking courses as part of his degree in business at the university in Hyderabad, India. Without checking my notes and pictures I am hard pressed to tell you all the things we made but it was a complete meal and delicious. This was slow cooking at its best, and of course, such a meal can only be enjoyed with a slow community eating of the meal with lots of good conversations.
Making and enjoying such a meal is a rarity these days of fast food and quick meals. But it is worth every lentil bean, grain of rice and spice. Such a meal and the good company that surrounds it fills one with enough food of life to last a long time.
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