Trying To Cure My Seasonal Depression: Cooking With My Mom

   

Cooking With My Mom: 


Like I said in a previous journal entry, I'm not a huge fan of cooking. But if there's one cuisine of cooking that I especially suck at, it has to be my own ethnicity's cooking: Indian food.


Don't even get me wrong- Indian food is amazing. I grew up on it and I love all the spices and flavors it has to offer. But when it comes to cooking it, I just seem to naturally mess everything up. There seem to be so many rules but at the same time no rules at all. You see, whenever I witness my mother cooking Indian food it all seems to be a mess, but then at the end, it all comes together and tastes better than I would have imagined. When I try it's just a hot mess from beginning to end. 


However, I realized if there's one person I'm going to ever learn Indian cooking from, it's my own Indian mother. As I'm usually too preoccupied in my own world to really sit down and learn a recipe from her, I decided it would be a fun way to not only learn something but also de-stress.


We decided to make the popular dish 'Gobi Manchurian' (to the right), and boy was there a multitude of steps in this recipe. I won't get into every detail, but we had to fry the cauliflower twice and that itself took an hour. 


But though it took a long time to make, spending time with my mom and hearing her talk about which spices to mix and why she does things certain ways was truly insightful. It was both educational and fun!


Truthfully cooking with my mom didn't help subdue my stress and anxiety that much, but it did give me some quality time with my mom and for that, I'll give it an 8/10 for curing my seasonal depression!

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