A Close Encounter....with our...FUTURE...

Okay, I know the title sounds weird...but keep on reading and it will all make sense to you. Trust me on this... It all started during our one week study break in April. The 3 famous musketeers were feeling very bored one day and so we decided to do something which we have never done on our own before....we decided to COOK!!!!We planned on making an indian dish called Puri Bhaji which is basically potato curry and puri. For those who do not know what puri is... then picture a smaller version of paratha but much softer and fluffier. I hope I made sense....I can't think of any other way to explain. Anyways, if some of you still do not understand, jz ask your indian friends. The best part was that NONE of us had any idea on how to make. Musketeer 1 and I called our mothers up and got hold of the recipe. Our mothers were a little skeptical about this whole thing...which made us even more determined to prove them that we CAN cook...

All of us went to the supermarket with our list and bought all the ingredients that were needed. After which, we went to the kitchen and started on our ummm....i shall call it...*little experiment*...

So we were all allocated to certain tasks. Musketeer 2 was in charge of cutting and peeling...man she was cutting in such precision like as if she was going to create some art masterpiece or something....musketeer 1 was in charge of making the dough for the puris and well I was helping both of them out here and there....After a while, this is where we have gone so far...

look how carefully musketeer 2 is cutting....

dough made for the puris...

Now that the preliminaries were over...we were now going to do the main part....the curry and our puris. Since we did not have the proper wooden roller, we had to innovate one...Though it was not as good, it served our purpose at least...

we used cardboard roll and plastic wrapped around it to prevent the dough from sticking...u got to say....we were creative....All 3 of us were taking turns using it and made 19 round puris...though none of them turned out as round as expected...

Meanwhile, we started with our curry. Though we had the recipe, we had no idea how much we had to add each of the ingredient. We used our own judgement and I must say...we are really good...

Looks really good doesn't it?? It had a really nice smell and tasted really really great too!

We had to deep-fry those puris we made. It is supposed to fluff up once it is put into the oil. Oh before that, I better tell you what I did. My 2 friends will make sure that this part is told...and they tend to exaggerate as usual...So this is what exactly happened. After the curry was done, we had to heat up another pan full with oil for the deep frying. So we were waiting for the oil to heat up and since we were using a hot plate instead of a stove, it was taking a lot of time. I was the one checking the oil and I thought after a while that the oil must have heated up. My friends were hesitating but I confidently told them to put in the puris. One of the puris was put in BUT nothing happened!!! The oil WASN'T heated up yet!!!The poor puri had to be thrown away...all thanks to my stupidity....*sigh* Anyways, we waited for a little while longer and then when we were sure, then the others were put in. Unfortunately, our puris were not fluffing up as they are supposed to...and top of that, they weren't soft...they turned out to be as HARD as biscuits!We were pretty sad about that but it was our first time after all...

This was the final result....taste-wise they were really great! In other words, we were kind of successful. As we were afraid of other people criticising our puris, we decided to have them all for ourselves. That was our dinner that day....

In case you are still wondering about the title...well...we felt as if we were daughter-in-laws cooking dinner for the family. So for that moment, we felt as if we were being transported to the future. Hence, the title...

We were quite satisfied with our results and proudly showed off the pictures to our mothers....so much so that we thought of doing this again one day...